The mystery of the poo on the patio
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but defo plenty of fox and roos
Feb 2nd 2011, 1:27 pm
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Re: The mystery of the poo on the patio
This afternoon Mini looked out of the window and said "Mummy, there's poo in the garden." I looked out, and sure enough there were big dollops of black poo on the lawn, the (covered) patio and (yuck) on the table and chairs.
We have 4 cats but it's wasn't cat poo (too big, wrong colour, they wouldn't do it on the table, and they have a litter tray they use). The only thing I could think of is that someone's chucked dog poo over the fence.
So after cleaning it up I go round to the neighbour, who's seemed very nice on the odd occasion we've said hello and borrowed tools. I thought maybe our cats had poo'd in her garden and her kids had got "revenge". But she was very nice, didn't know we had cats, doesn't have a dog, and was as stumped as me.
The neighbours on the other side do have a dog, but the poo would have had to go over the house and curl under to the patio.
The people behind have dogs, but the plots are graded so I doubt the cats could have got down to their garden (or back, anyway) and the poo missed the back of the garden where the trampoline etc is.
So I'm a bit stumped. I can't see how a dog could have got in. It's definitely not cat poo.
Is it likely we've been visited by some wild animal?
We have 4 cats but it's wasn't cat poo (too big, wrong colour, they wouldn't do it on the table, and they have a litter tray they use). The only thing I could think of is that someone's chucked dog poo over the fence.
So after cleaning it up I go round to the neighbour, who's seemed very nice on the odd occasion we've said hello and borrowed tools. I thought maybe our cats had poo'd in her garden and her kids had got "revenge". But she was very nice, didn't know we had cats, doesn't have a dog, and was as stumped as me.
The neighbours on the other side do have a dog, but the poo would have had to go over the house and curl under to the patio.
The people behind have dogs, but the plots are graded so I doubt the cats could have got down to their garden (or back, anyway) and the poo missed the back of the garden where the trampoline etc is.
So I'm a bit stumped. I can't see how a dog could have got in. It's definitely not cat poo.
Is it likely we've been visited by some wild animal?
Feb 2nd 2011, 1:34 pm
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Re: The mystery of the poo on the patio
If it's kanga s/he'd have had to jump over 2m fence.
And would have been a tight squeeze for a fox to squeeze under....
And would have been a tight squeeze for a fox to squeeze under....
Feb 3rd 2011, 8:55 am
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Re: The mystery of the poo on the patio
Spoke to the very helpful people at Joondalup Environmental Health Dept.
They said it sounds like a fox from the description of the poo(!) and because they're having an anti-fox campaign on the beach front at the moment. She said they don't de-fox private homes but if it persists a pest controller may be able to help. They're nocturnal (so I should keep the cats in at night) but generally not aggressive unless attacked.
And according to Wiki, they can jump 2m so that's how they got in!
Relieved it's not a neighbour!
They said it sounds like a fox from the description of the poo(!) and because they're having an anti-fox campaign on the beach front at the moment. She said they don't de-fox private homes but if it persists a pest controller may be able to help. They're nocturnal (so I should keep the cats in at night) but generally not aggressive unless attacked.
And according to Wiki, they can jump 2m so that's how they got in!
Relieved it's not a neighbour!
Feb 3rd 2011, 10:21 am
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Re: The mystery of the poo on the patio
I still think that it is a wayward koala.
Feb 3rd 2011, 10:26 am
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Those damned foxes.... political enemies one minute, athletes the next !
Feb 3rd 2011, 10:27 am
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Re: The mystery of the poo on the patio
Reminds me of the time we went camping. Set our grotty tent up next a fantastic state of the art tent inhabitated by a middle aged snooty couple who we nicknamed Charles and Camilla.
They had 3 brats..sorry kids..who were totally unsupervised and a pain in the arse.
One night Charles came out of his tent and stood on a great dollop of poo...no it didn't come from an animal ..but one of the kids
Was it Rupert,Henry or Winston.
The air was blue!!!
Charles was worse than than gestarpo interogating them.
All you heard was..'who's done this f**** poo..help me darling its stuck in between my toes...I need nail clipers. Did we bring the foot spa.
He then proceeded to ask us if we saw the guilty party..I had to walk away as I was crying.
Best piece of entertainment I had had in years!!!!
They had 3 brats..sorry kids..who were totally unsupervised and a pain in the arse.
One night Charles came out of his tent and stood on a great dollop of poo...no it didn't come from an animal ..but one of the kids
Was it Rupert,Henry or Winston.
The air was blue!!!
Charles was worse than than gestarpo interogating them.
All you heard was..'who's done this f**** poo..help me darling its stuck in between my toes...I need nail clipers. Did we bring the foot spa.
He then proceeded to ask us if we saw the guilty party..I had to walk away as I was crying.
Best piece of entertainment I had had in years!!!!
Feb 3rd 2011, 10:37 am
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Re: The mystery of the poo on the patio
Reminds me of the time we went camping. Set our grotty tent up next a fantastic state of the art tent inhabitated by a middle aged snooty couple who we nicknamed Charles and Camilla.
They had 3 brats..sorry kids..who were totally unsupervised and a pain in the arse.
One night Charles came out of his tent and stood on a great dollop of poo...no it didn't come from an animal ..but one of the kids
Was it Rupert,Henry or Winston.
The air was blue!!!
Charles was worse than than gestarpo interogating them.
All you heard was..'who's done this f**** poo..help me darling its stuck in between my toes...I need nail clipers. Did we bring the foot spa.
He then proceeded to ask us if we saw the guilty party..I had to walk away as I was crying.
Best piece of entertainment I had had in years!!!!
They had 3 brats..sorry kids..who were totally unsupervised and a pain in the arse.
One night Charles came out of his tent and stood on a great dollop of poo...no it didn't come from an animal ..but one of the kids
Was it Rupert,Henry or Winston.
The air was blue!!!
Charles was worse than than gestarpo interogating them.
All you heard was..'who's done this f**** poo..help me darling its stuck in between my toes...I need nail clipers. Did we bring the foot spa.
He then proceeded to ask us if we saw the guilty party..I had to walk away as I was crying.
Best piece of entertainment I had had in years!!!!
ho ho...
while we're on the topic of "tents and poo" - Many, many years ago, a friend & I attended a music festival in the UK. We arrived late on Friday, and all the good camping spots had been taken so we picked a vacant spot next to a ditch. I think we both knew that this spot was a bad choice, but we were just desperate to get in amongst the beers etc. The tent's location was not important.
To cut a long story short, we got back late that night and there were folks p*ssing outside our tent all night. When the sun came up the next morning, I woke with a bit of a hangover and poked my head out of the tent... and there was a girl's arse 30cm away from my face. You can guess what she was doing.
Feb 3rd 2011, 10:49 am
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Re: The mystery of the poo on the patio
We need some photographic evidence of this poo. In the absence of such, I'll hazard a guess at wombat poo? Or given that you've described it as black poo, do any of your neighbours drink a lot of Guinness?
Feb 3rd 2011, 11:53 am
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Re: The mystery of the poo on the patio
This afternoon Mini looked out of the window and said "Mummy, there's poo in the garden." I looked out, and sure enough there were big dollops of black poo on the lawn, the (covered) patio and (yuck) on the table and chairs.
We have 4 cats but it's wasn't cat poo (too big, wrong colour, they wouldn't do it on the table, and they have a litter tray they use). The only thing I could think of is that someone's chucked dog poo over the fence.
So after cleaning it up I go round to the neighbour, who's seemed very nice on the odd occasion we've said hello and borrowed tools. I thought maybe our cats had poo'd in her garden and her kids had got "revenge". But she was very nice, didn't know we had cats, doesn't have a dog, and was as stumped as me.
The neighbours on the other side do have a dog, but the poo would have had to go over the house and curl under to the patio.
The people behind have dogs, but the plots are graded so I doubt the cats could have got down to their garden (or back, anyway) and the poo missed the back of the garden where the trampoline etc is.
So I'm a bit stumped. I can't see how a dog could have got in. It's definitely not cat poo.
Is it likely we've been visited by some wild animal?
We have 4 cats but it's wasn't cat poo (too big, wrong colour, they wouldn't do it on the table, and they have a litter tray they use). The only thing I could think of is that someone's chucked dog poo over the fence.
So after cleaning it up I go round to the neighbour, who's seemed very nice on the odd occasion we've said hello and borrowed tools. I thought maybe our cats had poo'd in her garden and her kids had got "revenge". But she was very nice, didn't know we had cats, doesn't have a dog, and was as stumped as me.
The neighbours on the other side do have a dog, but the poo would have had to go over the house and curl under to the patio.
The people behind have dogs, but the plots are graded so I doubt the cats could have got down to their garden (or back, anyway) and the poo missed the back of the garden where the trampoline etc is.
So I'm a bit stumped. I can't see how a dog could have got in. It's definitely not cat poo.
Is it likely we've been visited by some wild animal?
Feb 3rd 2011, 12:00 pm
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Re: The mystery of the poo on the patio
We were in the UK last year when babies in London and a toddler in Brighton were attacked by foxes, so as irishbloo says, take care.
Feb 3rd 2011, 12:36 pm
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Re: The mystery of the poo on the patio
This afternoon Mini looked out of the window and said "Mummy, there's poo in the garden." I looked out, and sure enough there were big dollops of black poo on the lawn, the (covered) patio and (yuck) on the table and chairs.
We have 4 cats but it's wasn't cat poo (too big, wrong colour, they wouldn't do it on the table, and they have a litter tray they use). The only thing I could think of is that someone's chucked dog poo over the fence.
So after cleaning it up I go round to the neighbour, who's seemed very nice on the odd occasion we've said hello and borrowed tools. I thought maybe our cats had poo'd in her garden and her kids had got "revenge". But she was very nice, didn't know we had cats, doesn't have a dog, and was as stumped as me.
The neighbours on the other side do have a dog, but the poo would have had to go over the house and curl under to the patio.
The people behind have dogs, but the plots are graded so I doubt the cats could have got down to their garden (or back, anyway) and the poo missed the back of the garden where the trampoline etc is.
So I'm a bit stumped. I can't see how a dog could have got in. It's definitely not cat poo.
Is it likely we've been visited by some wild animal?
We have 4 cats but it's wasn't cat poo (too big, wrong colour, they wouldn't do it on the table, and they have a litter tray they use). The only thing I could think of is that someone's chucked dog poo over the fence.
So after cleaning it up I go round to the neighbour, who's seemed very nice on the odd occasion we've said hello and borrowed tools. I thought maybe our cats had poo'd in her garden and her kids had got "revenge". But she was very nice, didn't know we had cats, doesn't have a dog, and was as stumped as me.
The neighbours on the other side do have a dog, but the poo would have had to go over the house and curl under to the patio.
The people behind have dogs, but the plots are graded so I doubt the cats could have got down to their garden (or back, anyway) and the poo missed the back of the garden where the trampoline etc is.
So I'm a bit stumped. I can't see how a dog could have got in. It's definitely not cat poo.
Is it likely we've been visited by some wild animal?
ive just asked me pal whos a meteriologist,he said to tell you not to worry..
its what they call here a shit storm,you get a big build up of shit in the northern hemisphere,it draws it up in a kind of shit cyclone(works on the same principle as a dyson but instead of dog hair it draws up shit) then deposits it on urban areas..
thats where the expression in the shit comes from,what the aussie thing to do is ,pass it on ,chuck it over next door,they in turn will do the same until the shit lands on the verge,thats why you get loads of shit on the verge..
hope this helps..
ast..
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Feb 3rd 2011, 1:17 pm
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Re: The mystery of the poo on the patio
i cant believe nobody has told you this yet..
ive just asked me pal whos a meteriologist,he said to tell you not to worry..
its what they call here a shit storm,you get a big build up of shit in the northern hemisphere,it draws it up in a kind of shit cyclone(works on the same principle as a dyson but instead of dog hair it draws up shit) then deposits it on urban areas..
thats where the expression in the shit comes from,what the aussie thing to do is ,pass it on ,chuck it over next door,they in turn will do the same until the shit lands on the verge,thats why you get loads of shit on the verge..
hope this helps..
ast..
ive just asked me pal whos a meteriologist,he said to tell you not to worry..
its what they call here a shit storm,you get a big build up of shit in the northern hemisphere,it draws it up in a kind of shit cyclone(works on the same principle as a dyson but instead of dog hair it draws up shit) then deposits it on urban areas..
thats where the expression in the shit comes from,what the aussie thing to do is ,pass it on ,chuck it over next door,they in turn will do the same until the shit lands on the verge,thats why you get loads of shit on the verge..
hope this helps..
ast..
Feb 3rd 2011, 1:21 pm
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Re: The mystery of the poo on the patio
This afternoon Mini looked out of the window and said "Mummy, there's poo in the garden." I looked out, and sure enough there were big dollops of black poo on the lawn, the (covered) patio and (yuck) on the table and chairs.
We have 4 cats but it's wasn't cat poo (too big, wrong colour, they wouldn't do it on the table, and they have a litter tray they use). The only thing I could think of is that someone's chucked dog poo over the fence.
So after cleaning it up I go round to the neighbour, who's seemed very nice on the odd occasion we've said hello and borrowed tools. I thought maybe our cats had poo'd in her garden and her kids had got "revenge". But she was very nice, didn't know we had cats, doesn't have a dog, and was as stumped as me.
The neighbours on the other side do have a dog, but the poo would have had to go over the house and curl under to the patio.
The people behind have dogs, but the plots are graded so I doubt the cats could have got down to their garden (or back, anyway) and the poo missed the back of the garden where the trampoline etc is.
So I'm a bit stumped. I can't see how a dog could have got in. It's definitely not cat poo.
Is it likely we've been visited by some wild animal?
We have 4 cats but it's wasn't cat poo (too big, wrong colour, they wouldn't do it on the table, and they have a litter tray they use). The only thing I could think of is that someone's chucked dog poo over the fence.
So after cleaning it up I go round to the neighbour, who's seemed very nice on the odd occasion we've said hello and borrowed tools. I thought maybe our cats had poo'd in her garden and her kids had got "revenge". But she was very nice, didn't know we had cats, doesn't have a dog, and was as stumped as me.
The neighbours on the other side do have a dog, but the poo would have had to go over the house and curl under to the patio.
The people behind have dogs, but the plots are graded so I doubt the cats could have got down to their garden (or back, anyway) and the poo missed the back of the garden where the trampoline etc is.
So I'm a bit stumped. I can't see how a dog could have got in. It's definitely not cat poo.
Is it likely we've been visited by some wild animal?