Identifying turds !!
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Primrose
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Every morning our back lawn seems to be sporting another new little black turd. They're thin and about two inches long. As I'm too knackered at the end of the day to stay up all night to try and catch the owner, can anybody suggest what creature it might be. It looks too skinny to belong to a cat.
Hello Primrose
Could hedgehogs be leaving these little whoopsies on your lawn?
John
Could hedgehogs be leaving these little whoopsies on your lawn?
John
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We do have an occasional visiting hedghog in our front garden but access to the rear garden is firmly sealed off. No little black turds in the front though. Perhaps we have a second hedgehog out the back?
Another clue? Hedgehogs seem to follow various tracks of their own making in my garden so if you don't mow your lawn every other day, like some of my neighbours, you might be able to make out their paths.
John
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Found this delightful sketch of hedgehog poo - http://www.wildaboutleicester.co.uk/usr ... ehog13.jpg
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Yes Diane, that looks very like the little deposits on our lawn. Definitely very black and looks like a larger version of the black slugs which probably form a major part of their diet.