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Okay, this is a serious question and I trust Mitzyboy et al will allow it. Just moved from a town to a country hamlet. In the garden among the grass are a number of lozenge shaped 'droppings'. They are perhaps a 5mm in diameter and may be 2.5 to 4 cm long. They are black. A French friend suggests sanglier, but surely too small for these beasts. Also ground not disturbed and last year's apples left alone. I suspect a oiseau, but would need to be large. We have a good few ragondins here and farmers trap them. However, our Jack Russell doesn't show any interest, which is why is why I suspect a bird.

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Hedgehog?

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Are you joking? Never considered the little critters. Well, if that is the case, fantastic, there are plenty of slimy things for them to choose from. Crackin!

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[QUOTE=cjm;8479608]Are you joking?

No I'm not! I checked the description of the droppings in my Wild Animal book, and we've also got some of these useful little beasts...:)

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Musk rat - yummy. Ragout de Ragondins apparently is excellent, washed down with a red Cote de Rhone. :sneaky:
I kid you not. There are loads of recipes/ideas by googling 'ragondins recettes'.
Example

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Or Canadian Snow Weasels?

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Most likely hedgehog. Try googling hedgehog droppings then go for "pictures".
There are plenty of examples and also links to do more research.

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check moose droppings too. they are triangular :thumbup:

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And you think you've got problems.......:sneaky:
After reading this I had to go and check in my garden, and think I'm in for a bad time!
I've located some 'droppings' which are sort of an irregular trapezoid in shape with a sum of the angles that I couldn’t quite pluck up the courage to measure. Now I’m a bit worried, and beginning to think that I may have had a yeti with haemorrhoids trespass onto my property - well it's been cold enough!
Either that, or Andy - whom we haven't heard of recently and seems to have gone absent without leave - is prowling around these parts. :thumbup:

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Mooseman, triangular droppings must hurt m8, you have my sympathies!!!:rofl:

We have black droppings in our field, full of seeds, and they seem to appear wherever I have cut the grass - we suspect badgers as there are loads of huge holes in the banks, some of which are big enough for humans to hide in - Pete thinks they might be caves for the Resistance but I reckon it's badgers - and hopefully, any leftover resistance would use a loo like any other civilised humanoid .........

Tweedie, m8, nice to see you! Contrary to public belief, we do have toilets in Brittany - although some are a bit "dodgy" for sure ..........

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Right - It was me. I have been feeding since leaving your fair shores on nowt but dock pie stashed in the freezer by an aging relative in Huddersfield. The sweet dock, so favoured in these parts for its dockness and sweet flavour has played havoc with my intestines but has rendered me immensely fertile and given me a sexual appetite that no mere defrosted dock pie can salve. I have, I am not ashamed to lie, fathered countless small dock loving mammals on an unsuspecting nation and one of these (in local dialect known as 'a f'king frog' slipped across the channel (transported no doubt by those bloody Cornish separatists) but not before I had my way. These, my kin, are the creatures that produce such lozenges. I am hoping to breed a race of animals that eject Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts but with current electoral fever I fear it may play into the hands of the racist elements of our, sorry my, once proud nation, what with them now being Yanks and all that.

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Hey, I only asked about droppings, though licorice allsorts (without the sweet centre) may be what I have been looking at. How do they get hold of them I wonder, extract the centre and then in the dead of night scatter them across my lawn. Is it Parisians with a perverse sense of reverse country/city culture, or do they feed city hogs with Bassett's best! I'm now looking for round ones!

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Aliens!!!

Always blame aliens.

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Sigourney weaver gets everywhere maybe its her poo.

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Looks like DMU's right! :eek:
http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/hedgehog