Whose dropping?

[stripee]

Originally Posted by mh68

I would put it down to being a furball, Stripee, for sure. It makes sense that any animal with fur, will get furballs in the same way cats do, when cleaning itself,and will get rid of them in the same way, so it could be from a number of species. If you had a microscope and ID guide to animal hairs you could maybe ID the hair/fur to a species, but really thats the only way of doing it as far as I know.

Mark H

Thank you for help, and it does seem that it is a furball. It has stiff hairs unlike cat though, and was in a place nowhere near houses. But will have a look at the hairs in the daylight and see if they have any other colours on them. Thanks too for everyone else's advice

[Kayleigh]

You could sent it off to a lab for ID..You may have found evidence of the illusive BIG CAT

[stripee]

Originally Posted by Kayleigh

You could sent it off to a lab for ID..You may have found evidence of the illusive BIG CAT

Somehow a white beast doesn't seem quite so scary

[Billy Wobble Dagger]

Well there's dedication for you, bagging it up and teasing it apart
I'm at a loss now. Maybe there's an opening in the market for fur ball identification books

[epops]

hmmm somthing to do with badgers?

[stripee]

Thanks for all the guesses. The hairs weren't long enough for badger and don't look like their hair, I think either stoat, or rat even, they are stiff, not soft. Depends really whether the stuff was from the animal's own coat or something they had eaten. Anyway the "dropping" is thrown out now on the compost heap