To not want a garden full of shit? (Pic included)

[Iwannasnack]

Everyday for the last couple of weeks we've found shit in the garden. I've got a 1 and 3 year old and it's so frustrating not being able to let them out without scouring the grass for poo. Can anyone identify the animal? I assume cat. Any ideas how to kill stop it coming in?

tbh I prefer neighbours cat not to bury their shit as that would usually mean they dig out my newly planted plants...

and yes to the smell. fox poo almost smells like weed (the drug).
though to my nose not worse than ordinary dog poo.

Cats do NOT always bury their shit!

My NDNs cat would happily shit in my garden, openly! Even more so, the little infuriating furball would happily sit on the edge of my DCs trampoline sunning itself, then get up and spray all over the netting whilst I'd be fucking stop there on the step! It took me months to deter it from coming in, humanely of course!

Ironically its the same NDNs cat who caused an absolute nuisance of herself when she first moved in convinced her immediate neighbours had cats (neither side of her has pets) and were shitting in her yard, you know where her kids play!

OP. I'd say that was a fox.

Mr Fox doesnt think he's disgusting though Northern
But you are right, they really really pongggggg!

That's fox poo

*stood not stop.

I would say that is fox poo.

Does it smell? Cat and fox poo have very distinctive smells. It's almost a musty smell with foxes. Cat poo I can't describe, but once you know it, you'll never forget it. If it just smells like a steamy pile of shit, it's a dog.

I don't think it looks like fox poo. Hard to tell without having a clearer idea of the size (can we have another pic with a ruler by the side, OP? ), but fox poo is generally pretty small, dark and sort of tarry. It also has a very distinctive, slightly acrid smell and doesn't actually smell like shit (although it does smell disgusting).

Should add that I am a fox poo expert. For 13 years I had a dog who was an absolute delight in every respect but one: he loved to roll in fox crap and could find it anywhere. He once managed to do it Solihull town centre, much to the amazement of my friend.

I think it's dog. I'd check the fence hasn't got any gaps or loose panels. Even big dogs can get through surprisingly small gaps, for most breeds, if the head fits through, the rest of the dog can, if it's determined enough.

Ok so apparently DH saw a dog loose in the garden a few weeks ago and it had escaped through the fence from the guy at the back. Never seen a fox around here but it could still be. I'll see if I can secure the back fence and scatter some spices! Chilli powder?
Apologies to the fictional cat I was blaming too!!

Looks like dog poo to me. I'd say it's too brown and too solid to be fox poo. Mind you, my dogs may only choose to roll on sloppy, blackish fox poo, which is my main experience of it. If it's fox poo, it will smell unbelievably disgusting

Cats are annoying little buggers, they never shit in their own garden, they are much too fussy and clean, and keep their own territory pristine.

They nip over to some other cat's territory and mess in there! As if to thumb their nose up at their enemy cat grrrr. Said from bitter experience.

Cats do not always bury their poo had cats last house openly poo on lawn and gravel and leave it. But that does not look like cat poo.

If you have an outdoor water tap the water scarecrow would put off foxes or whatever was leaving it.

Fox or dog poo

We used to have a family of foxes before they did more building works behind us and they moved on. The Daddy fox was ginormous.

Grind lots of black pepper corns.

And some 'cheap and cheerful' powdered pepper from the supermarket.

Extreme pepper attack needed! You can get proprietary "Get off my Garden" green gel which you can spray all over the borders but it can damage grass. And it's very expensive. But may be worth it for the original blast and then pepper.

Can you tell I get all sorts of beasties all over our garden!?

We used to keep chickens and a recommended method of keeping foxes away was to get a man to pee around the edge of the garden ... not sure why lady wee doesn't offer the same fox repelling properties disclaimer: our chicken was as hard as nails and scared foxes off herself so we never tried this out to see if it worked!

I think that's dog poo. Fox poo is more oily if that makes sense.more slimey and less formed.

The more we domesticate cats, the further away they get from their origins.

So the latest generations of cats rarely get out and grub around in the undergrowth so just crap all over the place. We live out in the stix so neighbourhood cats roam free all over my borders

"Go Eric's Chicken"

(Pom Poms)

It looks like cat poo to me, they don't always bury it and I think the pic was taken quite close up, making it seem bigger?
You'll need to cat-proof your garden if poss.

Fox poo smells like cheesy vom and is runnier

Looks more like dogs ,, cat shit don't look like that

Cat.

I thought the Resident Foxes in our garden were ill, theirs looks nothing like the photo. Its more slimey green . I thought the little gits were suffering from their bin raking antics.

I bribe my teen DS to pee in the garden (he does it in a bottle not out Al Fresco ) to keep them away from the guinea-pigs.

We had NDN dogs in the garden after a fence was damaged. And they shit on my lawn