What is pooing on my lawn?

[Aibusadandhormonal]

Gross pic attached pic.

Only look if you don't mind looking at what looks to be a dog turd but can't be because it's the back garden...

Before I opened the thread I thought instantly it's gonna be a cat, but have to say that doesn't look like cat mess to me. Maybe a really big cat with a weird diet?

Really does look like a dog somehow..

Fox? We get them in our garden.

That looks like dog poo to me. What are the other options really? Too much to be a cat, too light and not pointed at the ends to be fox, deer poo is more like sheep poo and it's definitely not anything like rabbit or hare.

I have three Maine coon cats that are the biggest breed of cats you can get.

Their poos are not that big.

Not a cat.

I posted similar recently and was told cat.

Do you have a potty training toddler? If the garden is secure, its either something that could climb a fence (giant cat or fox) or someone from inside your household! I too would have said its a dog. Maybe a badger?
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife/how-identify/identify-poo

Have U offended your neighbour? 😂

Haha. No no potty training going on here any more

I've done way too much looking at images on the Internet of poo and it doesn't look like badger, fox of cat (we've had cat before and it doesn't smell like cat either 😷

Our neighbours have dogs but I can't imagine it's them. They'd have to let him in through the shared gate and they are nice people!
One side is a small spaniel, the other a dachshund....

Basil, the butcher's dog.

Some bigger dogs can climb fences.

We have that book. All the DCs are quite poop- aware now!

That's not cat - it's too big and the wrong colour really.

I have cats, that's definately not cat poo! Has to be a dog

Any dog that's not the immediate neighbour would need to climb 3 fences to get in. We have nothing in the garden to entice them in...

Next question - now that we're pretty sure it's a dog... how do I broach that with the neighbours?!

Looks like a dog. Maybe you left the gate slightly open and one nipped in? Horrified owner retrieved it and shut the gate?

Fox. This time of year they're eating the last of the windfall apples.
A few weeks earlier you get the stones from the laurel cherries.
Can you tell we have loads of foxes here. I keep a bucket and spade to clear out garden and the DC are expert poo checkers before they start playing outside

I'd go round your garden perimeter and see if there's any places a dog could wriggle through or under. And if there is block them, the owners might not be aware if eg they are letting their dog our unattended in their garden after dark.

Fox??

I have the same problem. Have a poo left in my back garden twice now. That doesn't look like a cat poo.

Hahaha....I read 'I pooed similar recently and was told cat'
I wondered where you was pooing so publicly!

Dog. Too big for cat. Our next door neighbour cat poos on the grass like that occasionally. Luckily our neighbour cleans it up Everytime as they are nice.

We found poo on our veg plot looks similar, definitely cat poo, certain smell. Fox poo is usually black,has a distinct horrible bitter smell. We have 2 dogs, they have about 50 foot of garden fenced off for them, they have free run of the rest when we're out there. DH removed a tree, bought topsoil filled in hole,grass seed, doing very well thanks! THEN we found it all dug up, puppy got the blame,my back door clogs went missing,found down the garden, again suspected puppy! Forked out the princely sum of about £30, bought a wildlife camera...it was foxes, playing, they were playing with the dogs ball and actually took it away. No poo though, but they did dug up patches and wee! Nextdoors cat,yup! We had a row with a neighbour years ago, because she let her dog jump the fence and poo in our garden (she accepted no responsibility saying it was the boyfriends dog) then we started finding huge dog poos in our garden. I didn't think she would stoop so low. We had put up a high fence by then. A friends mum kept her horses at the same stables, she went home with her one day and actually saw her throw it over into our garden.

I thought fox poos were pointy and full of bits? Though I guess not full of bits if they've been eating all our apples

I think that's cat poo. We've got a massive ginger tom who comes and shits in our garden and driveway and his poos can be that big. I know without doubt it is him because he is shameless and will make eye contact as he does it.

Looks like cat poo to me - we had a repeat offender that used to crap on our front lawn whilst pretty much staring us down.

You have a really nice neighbour!