Thursday, April 18, 2019

SCAT: A potty break

There's nothing like a pile of poop to get a lively conversation going.
The other morning I went out to fill the bird feeder and found two human-sized, seed-filled piles of feces on my back deck. I posted a photo on social media, and the consensus, after much bathroom humor ("Looks like Dearest Partner has been eating too much fiber!"), was that a raccoon had used my deck as its toilet after eating supper at my feeder. 
Some theorized that my visitor had been a skunk or even a coyote, but the scat experts (a hunter and a naturalist) explained, in clinical detail, that the poop was the wrong size and shape.

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