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What animal feces, animal scat, poop is this? see my photo.

22 years ago

Hi,

If I leave water in a 2 or 5 gallon bucket overnight sometimes I find animal poop in it the next day. This morning I rinsed out the buckets and replaced them with fresh water. This afternoon I went to use the water in the buckets and found animal poop in them again, in broad daylight!. What animal left this poop? A possum?, raccoon? Also I found where something raided my garden pool this morning but couldn't find any tracks. I have seen possums in my yard. My cat stays out on the patio area all day and seems perfectly content while I was changing the water in the buckets this afternoon.

I am concerned about any diseases which might be in this poop. We sometimes use a leaf blower to clean the patio and don't want poop getting airborn. :-)

Please tell me what animal left this poop?

Thanks!

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  • 15 years ago

    I know this was from a long time ago....
    It IS caterpillar scat that has rehydrated from the water in the bowl.
    cater pillars "launch" it either 4 or 40 times their body length. I can't remember which. This is thought to be done to keep predators like wasps from finding their nest and larvae. I had one bounce off my head and land on the patio table. I thought it was a squirrel pellet till I noticed the lobed, extruded look to it and searched till I found what it was. Probably will not harm the animals.... It's plant matter.

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