Just spotted this in my garden, has anyone any thoughts? Its under a big tree so could be from above.
Toad?
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Badger?
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Maybe whoever left the sneaker?
Maybe badger
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Well thanks @Porridge , I feel so much better for seeing all that. 
I am sure my Setter, Galys, eats such remains sometimes and once as I glanced out of the window I saw her do a poo and marked it in my mind for future disposal. Imagine my horror when I saw her turn around and start to eat it. 
I ran to the veranda and shouted through the open sliders but, of course, being deaf she couldn’t hear me. There was no trace later. Yuk.
Anyway, has anybody IDed @toryroo 's example yet?
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She’s just getting her beneficial bacteria - try adding broccoli to her diet.
Phew, thanks Sue, broccoli is on the list for Monday. 
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That would be a humongous toad! Dog, I’d say. The badger droppings (spraints? Or is that just otters etc, nice word anyway) in my garden don’t look like that.
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Well at least it’s not human.
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Badger and fox scat tends to be dark and rather hard because more dehydrated. Looks more like big dog poop to me. 
Haha! I did that for size purposes
Grrrrr 
. No doubt the f#£%-% neighbours dogs then who got another one of my chickens last month. They don’t / won’t have a fence so looks like we’ll have to go to the effort and expense.
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Yes, probably not according to this
As I understand it, dogs fed a ‘dog food’ diet often eat their own faeces because it still smells like food. The flavouring in the food isn’t broken down or masked sufficiently, and still smells recognisably like food to them. Not an area of personal concern, but I did have a discussion with someone who had a professional interest
Last year I cut my neighbour’s lawn before she let her robot mower go for the season and in one corner there were several similar looking poos. They were definitely not dogs so we set up a wildlife camera. Lots of photos of a badger. The poos were not dehydrated, in fact most were the opposite.
Dogs just like eating faeces and that’s quite possibly how they were first domesticated, human camps or settlements being a good source.
They really are rather disgusting, they are lucky we love them so 
and we are lucky to have them.
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@David_M_Matthews The badgers chez moi leave much darker bittier and better defined turds, and where they are left has usually been slightly excavated, but they come and feast on all the fallen fruit and nuts etc which may account for the look and colour.
The ones we had here (I almost wrote ours) we really quite loose. The photo evidence suggested it was the badger. There is no sign of it a year on, it must have found a better place to poo.
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Only caveat is that the poop depicted is in UK, which may be better hydrated than France.
May indeed be a badger, carnivore too, which may explain the chicken massacre 
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And suspect you’re quite an authority on that subject!
Possibly Badger? Look in a few days time to see if there is more, could be badger marking territory they’ll add to this. Other wise badgers have toilet areas that change over time around their sets, they usually dig them out first.