Nighttime visitor

[noviceveggrower]

Hi,
I keep having a visitor down my allotment. It keeps breaking down my little fence which I have replaced with a wire fence. Have only put that up because we have a lot of dog walkers which pass by.
Anyway today I found some very stinky poo. It was very musky, no I didn't get down to sniff it, I was stood by it and smelt it before I saw it.
Any idea what my visitor is anyone?

[veggiechicken]

Fox? Badger?
Try this BBC - Nature UK: The truth about poo

[WendyC]

I would say fox.

[Mikey]

My dog loves fox muck, I'm not so keen. Its pretty evil stuff.

[Glutton4...]

If you can smell it when you're standing up near it, it is probably Fox.

[geordie t]

Badgers have a specific toilet area that the whole family will use and will dig small scrapes to poo in.Fox poo is generally grey in colour with no attempt to hide it.

[Verinda]

My dog loves rolling in smelly fox poo and for some reason makes a point of getting it on her neck! I often wonder why.

[robmarston]

Verinda mine too. If I see him craning his neck towards the ground I run screaming at him to head him off. Nothing worse. But he does like foul smells. Once in a park he was rolling around in something near the bins. I shouted for him to stop and he stood there smiling at me with something awful literally dripping off him. On closer inspection I identified the soggy mess he was coated in as human vomit. I have no idea why he does this. My other dog has never rolled in anything....


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[Glutton4...]

I believe it's a primal thing. Something to do with masking their own scent. My boy is a roller, all round his neck and ears, and down to his shoulders. Nice. My girl, on the other hand is a scoffer. If I let them in the chook run with me, he finds a big chook poo to roll on, and she goes round eating the rest. I don't let them in very often!

[Bill HH]

I would put money on it being Fox poo, its wicked stuff. Our Springer rolled in the stuff when we were on holiday and we had to have her in the car to get back to our cottage, I was driving with my head out of the window and heaving. It took 3 bottles of vosene to finaly get rid of the stink.Regarding smells one day I took my Jack Russell Danny onto the beach and he came back proudly brandishing a stick so I let him bring it into the car. When i got in this stink of biblical proportions hit me. it wasn't a stick but a rotting crabs arm. Don't you just love dogs.

[Bill HH]

I believe it's a primal thing. Something to do with masking their own scent. My boy is a roller, all round his neck and ears, and down to his shoulders. Nice. My girl, on the other hand is a scoffer. If I let them in the chook run with me, he finds a big chook poo to roll on, and she goes round eating the rest. I don't let them in very often!

Yes its wierd, they spend a lot of time peeing on posts and walls to announce their scent to other dogs and then spend time trying to mask it and smell like something else! No logic there.

[Verinda]

Some dogs are definitely more drawn to roll in disgusting things than others! lol

I just wanted to add that my dog eats hen poo too...and rabbit droppings!! What's the appeal I wonder??!!