Of what species...

I had kinda ruled out cat- in part because of the size, but mostly because of the location. Cats do tend to poop on loose surfaces where they can bury. There are reportedly mountain lion in the state, but not in our neck of the woods, and bobcat are pretty uncommon here as well. This poop seems to me a little too small for the former, and a little too large for the latter.

I've had some experience with owl pellets- had to pick them apart in school to determine what they'd been eating. This looks like no owl pellet I've ever seen.

I used to see coyote quite a bit back in Ohio and Kentucky, but those guys seemed to have been feeding on an abundant supply of canada goslings. I never encountered that much hair in the scat I saw. I saw one coyote here on the family compound once. That was six years ago when I first moved here, and I always sorta figured that my dog establishing his presence here made them lay low. I've often seen feral dogs and their sign around, but nothing that was unmistakably coyote- not to my very unexpert eyes, anyway.

Appreciate the thoughts and input! For now, I'm just gonna call this a coyote
until I find out we've got chupacabra or something. :D
 
RescueRiley said:
THe tapered ends suggest canine to me...I'm assuming by the size and it's location (a paved trail of some kind?) its a fairly large coyote.. wild cat scat generally present with blunt ends, cats are also generally much more selective about hiding there scat and choosing there paths of travel.
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lukus said:
Looks like coyote to me, maybe a little more volume than normal, but still coyote. Coyotes and foxes like to poop on dirt roads, trails, etc...
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That's were I always find it. On the paved bike trail before I hit the trail head back to no mans land where my pit is.
Last time out, one ran (hauling butt!) right past TheZenful1 and I around 1am on our way out so we are pretty sure it was from coyotes.
 
We have had a significant increase in black bear activity in the area. I leaned away from bear scat, though, because this time of year there is far too much vegetable forage available for the scat to be this carnivorous.
 
I wonder if my horse can do that kind of $hit? I could open my own swiss army knife store! :D
 
JCavSD said:
I've seen some pretty hairy coyote dumps, but that one is a bit much. I'd say hairball except for the shape and continuity of the mass. Looks like it has been through the intestines.

If you can find out what it is and capture it you'll have a money maker on your hands. If you can get it to dump 2 or 3 SAKs per day you'd have a nice supplemental income.
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Loved that ^, thanks for a good laugh !:D
 
The twistyness of it puts me in mind of something in the weasel family, but it's too large for it to be anything but a wolverine (we don't have those around here so I'm not sure what they look like).

From my experience I'm confident that it isn't bear or an owl pellet. We certainly have coyote scat around here that is that hairy -- usually filled with squirrel, snowshoe hare or deer fur. It's of the right size to be coyote, but coyote isn't usually that twisty. It being in the middle of the driveway is consistent with coyote too.

What part of the world did you find this in?
 
I think I know.....

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:D :D :D :D :D
 
Coyote would be my bet. Definately not an owl, I've got one living in my barn which I have to clean up after every couple of months. It doesn't look anything like that. It's not from a bear either, I've seen plenty of bear scat. I would say it's from one or more coyotes.
 
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