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?

Can I just mention, slightly off topic, someone mentioned sonic scarers up thread. The problem with these is that children can hear them too!
A householder near our school had one and the kids were forever complaining of a horrible noise in their ears, when out in the playground. Turned out that it was a scarer !
Adults can't hear it ( after about age 18, I believe), but it is irritating/ painful to young children.

Cats dont all bury their shit. My garden is full of it.
That looks like dog shit. Have a look round the fence for holes, they dont have to be that big.

It looks too big for cat, dog or fox I would think.

Cats poop is tapered, and yes, cats DO crap on lawns/patios/drives without burying it. Cats also crap in their own gardens. My cat craps in ours out in the open and doesn't bury it.

Foxes stinks to high heaven and is slimy and runnier. Eew.

That is dog poop for sure. If it's regularly appearing then I can almost guarantee it's some lazy swine who just lets their dog out alone to do it's business. My ex friend used to do it with hers. She would open the front door and send him out directly onto the street.
Though it could also be a dog on a lead allowed to mess in your garden too. I used to watch a man walk a collie late at night and let it wander onto MIL's garden (or her neighbour's) and he'd stretch his arm out so the dog could get properly into the garden to crap! He eventually stopped when I started yelling at him every time he did it.

Ah it properly winds me up when people say cats bury their shit NO they fucking don't!

Does look like a lot of crap to be a cat though.

Rachel daisychain what bullshit

Come on - There's no way a bull could have squeezed through the gap in OPs hedge.

Boom tshhhhhhhh!

Or Tyrannosaurus poo -

I think it's shaped like a giraffe

I thought it looked like the tiny corpse of a run-over fairy (sans wings),

The superb measuring tool the form of a My Little Pony 6" rule (way to go OP) confirms my opinion that this is dog poo. And a dog which is given a many dry diet.

I don't know but since someone dropped a full jar of coffee at my gatepost then all the local dogs have decided to piss there on their walks. Bluuugh. The jar is now gone and I've flung buckets of soapy water to get rid of the coffee and piss mix.

I thibk I need to get pepper or something to put them off

If it was fox poo you'd smell it from inside the house!! My dog is a bloody magnet to it. It is truly the most vile toxic smell imaginable. But it isn't normally formed like that....more like splat .

If it smells like Satan's tonsil stones, then it's fox poo

@JaneEyre70 Do you have a fellow fox poop roller too? Ours is atrocious. Every. Single. Damn. Time.

That's not a cat unless you have the beast of Bodmin roaming around your house.

Contech Scarecrow. It's a motion activated water spray, totally totally amazing. We move house a lot (renters) and it has transformed gardens from cat toilets to lush spaces.

This is what I have too. They are brilliant and they 100% work. There are cheaper brands available on Amazon. The cats AND foxes learn quickly.

Last place I lived, there was a brazen fucker of a cat that used to rock up in the middle of the grass in my back garden, take a massive shit and saunter off. I saw it through rtf window on several occasions.

This means that:

Cats can do bit shits
Shit in the middle of grass
Not give a rats arse about burying it

user1493453415 every blinking walk at the moment. We average out about 4/5 baths a week and I should buy shares in Animology for the amount of fox poo shampoo we buy. He's my first cocker spaniel, I never this with my labrador

Yes to what a pp has suggested - grown up man wee! We had a problem with cats poo (sorry to cat owners, but it definitely was cats as I saw them, i would chase them off but in the end they got used to the crazy lady screaming and would just stare at me with contempt) and also a bigger animal poo which i assume was foxes. Someone suggested getting DH to wee around the garden, and when he started "watering the plants" daily, the poo stopped coming.

I'll bring my dog over to test it - if she wees near it it's dog poo, if she eats it it's cat poo, and if she rolls in it it's fox poo!
But my vote is for a dog if you've got a gap in your fence.
Thanks for the tip on sonic scarers working on kids - I'm going to get one to put out when my cats are indoors and the kids are making a racket at the houses behind

LadyPW

Definitely dog! And it's a myth that cats bury poo. There's a reason so many people hate their neighbours cats!!!

Love the ruler photo OP haha. That's dog poo for sure. Fox poo is usually smaller, and as they eat a lot from bins etc it's usually of a 'softer' consistency. Ensure that there are no gaps, or loose fencing, that the neighbours dog can get through. My dog wouldn't hesitate to climb through a bush, to get through a small hole, just to sniff a patch of grass she hasn't smelt before .