What animal made this scat?

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There are always exceptions but cats usually at least make one scratch or swipe at covering their scat, or beside it. This is old enough that the scratch in dirt may be gone, though it doesn't look like any was made. Unlikely to be cat.

As to size and shape, that varies so much it doesn't tell much unless we've been observing scat from a particular species regularly enough to know what most of it looks like in that area at that time of year. It changes even with the same animal depending on what its been eating, its health, lots of things. Bears go from logs to squirts, deer from puddle patties to pellets, cats from runny messes to tapered cylinders, and coyotes drop many sizes, shapes and textures depending on what they've been eating.



Bingo
 
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It is really difficult to determine with great authority, so this is the place where my guess is as good as anyone's: It's that danged Chupacabra again! Yepper, Texas ! ...... Chupacabra !



Harry, unless you have video footage that I indeed made the deposit in question......... I categoricaly deny that this is my turd. And another thing, stop blaming all goat stuff on me, I don't even like the the smelly things.

Sincerely
Chupa
 
[CORRECTION}................I'll withdraw my speculation on the Turdino Grande as Chupathingy has informed me that he was not responsible for manufacture and disposition of said item, in view of the absolute lack of photographic evidence. Plus he said nothing about his loosing the pack of B & H smokes that may have fallen out of a pocket during the laying process. My guess was wrong so my 2nd place theory is that the picture shows the white, now fossilized scat of the extinct Paleolithic Proto-Chupacabra from 15,000 years ago, now eroded out of the substrate by the combined effects of Gorbal Wurming and el Nino~. The animal predates modern Chupacabras by a while. Harry
 
The just has to be scat from a 150 pound owl! No other animal or bird could possibly do that /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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[CORRECTION}................I'll withdraw my speculation on the Turdino Grande as Chupathingy has informed me that he was not responsible for manufacture and disposition of said item, in view of the absolute lack of photographic evidence. Plus he said nothing about his loosing the pack of B & H smokes that may have fallen out of a pocket during the laying process. My guess was wrong so my 2nd place theory is that the picture shows the white, now fossilized scat of the extinct Paleolithic Proto-Chupacabra from 15,000 years ago, now eroded out of the substrate by the combined effects of Gorbal Wurming and el Nino~. The animal predates modern Chupacabras by a while. Harry



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well im certainly no expert, and without a smoke, sniff and taste testing, im guessing a 28 1/2 pound bobcat moving in a southerly direction with a slight limp, 1 year and 8 months old, at exactly 11:32....:)
 
I was just reading in this web site the field guide to a Texas mountain lion and it gave several descriptions of scat and pictures and this was one of them. but I just cannot get over him leaving his 5$ a pack smokes behind.
 
If that's anywhere near the border you might try grinding it up and snorting a little.

AWS
 
I see Large Coyote scat just like that all over the S.Nevada desert. Usually Bobcat and Lion Cover their Turds and they are usually more round/segmented (like small linked sausages).... I think they look white like that after feeding on the end of a kill or a carcass as its mainly skeletal calcium deposits that make it white....
 
This is by far one of the funniest posts ive read in a while. Thanks guys, about 16 drops of pee ran down my leg, and now my jaw hurts from perma-grin.
 
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