Name the poop !!!!

[pitdog]

Came across this scat today, it seemed a little large for a domestic cat, what do you think ?

 

[safetyman]

Not that I'm an expert on this but it looks like Couagr scat to me.

 

[BarberFobic1992]

was it on top of a high place?

 

[KiljoyKutlery]

Fox...I dont know if you have Coyotes..but that would have been my guess here in the NorthEastern lower 48. Gene

 

[abo4ster]

It's the infamous douglas fir poop!

And there is some coyote poop next to it.

 

[aarya]

Sure does get enough fiber in its diet, whatever it is.

 

[pitdog]

A far as I know we don't have Coyotes or Foxes but I may be wrong ! It was not at a high elevation, in fact it was about 1 k from the sea !

 

[dipbait]

I think Timmy is a nice name. Timmy the tird.

 

[pitdog]

I think Timmy is a nice name. Timmy the tird.

You win bro, I'll mail it to ya !!!!:thumbup:

 

[Diomedes Industries]

Sorry bro. That was me.

TF

 

[abo4ster]

That's a lot of hair and looks a little large to be a fox, but it could be. Fox usually have some insect parts or berries too, but maybe not as far north as you are at this time of year.

What made me think it is a canine is the end being tapered to a point. Feline scat tends to more segmented and the individual segments have somewhat of a taper too, but much shorter. Am I looking at the photo correctly?

 

[safetyman]

See, I told you guys I wasn't an expert .

 

[abo4ster]

See, I told you guys I wasn't an expert .

Me either! And I could be looking at it wrong!

 

[Rupestris]

You win bro, I'll mail it to ya !!!!:thumbup:

PMP Funny!!! Priceless!

Glad I didn't get in on this one.

 

[BarberFobic1992]

coyotes and foxes tend to reserve their poo for marking territory on high places (that might just be the males though). so that coupled with you being pretty sure there are no coyotes or foxes around pretty much rules out those two.

 

[skimmerhorn]

coyote! got alot of cats of all kinds and yotes' around these parts. looks to be a yote' that's eatin' a snowshoe. see it all the the time along with tracks in the snow!

 

[skimmerhorn]

sorry, double post here. when my beagles catch a snowshoe their poop also looks like that!

 

[RescueRiley]

not that it is the end all be all of information but accordint o wikipedia there are no coyotes on Vancouver island....although there are many on mainland BC..there are nnumerous Cougars on B.C. I know bobcats often bury there scat...I don't know much about cougars toilet habits however. although I would imagine a 200 lb cat to have a larger "payload"

 

[skimmerhorn]

didn't know their were no yote's on VI. must be fox. a canid nontheless. mountain lion, lynx, and bobcat tend to at least make a feeble attempt to bury a little. we have all three types of cats here in great numbers (over 250 lions in the garnets alone). see their scat and tracks on a regular basis with the occasional sighting.

 

[Joezilla]

this thread is interesting.

I definitely don't know shit about this subject, but I really wish to brush up on this ID. You can tell alot about what it ate by looking in it. If it has alot of rodent parts, I would lean more toward a coyote than a bear.


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Hijack rant 1:

This thread reminded me of a classic book that was given to me back in the early 90's

Glorious! I still have that book somewhere.

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2 crappy stories
grad students


Though I never went to grad school, I know two grad students that have been up to their arms in it.

One poor girl, and a good friend, worked with a pasture dung beetle onthophagus gazella (just a little black scarab beetle).
I would see her at the lab putting cow crap into little compartments and setting up crap traps....

Another gentlemen I know just by name spent his whole summer as a grad student backpacking around Pisgah, looking for bear crap and dissecting it to get gut load information.