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Old 23-09-2013, 09:52 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Keeping cats out of garden


Gets a bit boring after you have heard the various versions over 60 years
:-(


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On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 19:43:19 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice"
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On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 18:51:31 +0100, Christina Websell wrote:

[1] Almost certain it's a cat - there are sometimes vague attempts

to
scratch the ground and bury it, but often not successful. Volume

and
size is too small for a fox.

Cats usually bury their poo. Young dog fox cubs are ejected from their
families round about late August. I suggest it might be them.


Doesn't fox poo have a very "foxy" but not unpleasant smell and a
pointed end? Cat poo smells foul.


I've been told (somewhere, probably on a Ray Mears wildlife prog or
the like) that all predators turds have a pointed end. Presumably to
prevent the anus slamming shut and thus giving their presence away to
their prey.

I do like that one :-)