Can anyone identify the owner of this?

[winchman]

Found in the workshop, its next to an aerosol can lid

 

[RWD3M]

I can tell you what it isn't, mine!

Certainly not rat and looks a bit runny for hedgehog. Cat perhaps?


EDIT: Hang on, I take that back, it might be hedgehog: https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife/how-identify/identify-poo

 

[RWD3M]

If it is hedgehog, do find him and let him out. I've had to evict 3 hedgehogs over the years, one from an attached garage and two from my current shed.

 

[winchman]

If it is hedgehog, do find him and let him out. I've to evict 3 hedgehogs over the years, one from an attached garage and two from my current shed.

We will, saved a few of them over the years

 

[RWD3M]

We will, saved a few of them over the years

My shed (and that garage for that matter) has plenty of difficult to see hidey holes, I found the best time to find them was late in the evening when they wake up and think about looking for food. I was then able to follow the rustling noises

 

[minimutly]

Yes for hedgehog, ask @Barking Mat

 

[Barking Mat]

Yes for hedgehog, ask @Barking Mat

Yep, probably hedgehog.

 

[waddycall]

Mrs Waddycall is an Ecologist and reckons it’s probably hedgehog weasel or stoat

 

[winchman]

Mrs Waddycall is an Ecologist and reckons it’s probably hedgehog weasel or stoat

Thanks
We will keep an eye out!

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I've had to evict 3 hedgehogs

Into the oven?

 

[Migmac]

If it’s a hedgehog, put some water out for it. It’s dehydrated

 

[500e]

Into the oven?

Back in your box

 

[Arc Tourist]

Now that you know what it is, consider not stepping in it ?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Back in your box

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am out side of all box's.

 

[brightspark]

glad its not in mine .my dog rolls in it and eats it a quick boot up the ring helps stop it for a while because he knows whats coming next

 

[Tom O]

I’m not sure if it helps but many years ago I had a Hamster that would get out occasionally in the basement the only was you could catch him was when the lights were out and his eyes shone in the flashlights beam.

 

[Cobbler]

I’m not sure if it helps but many years ago I had a Hamster that would get out occasionally in the basement the only was you could catch him was when the lights were out and his eyes shone in the flashlights beam.

My mother was a primary school teacher years ago, they had a class hamster which escaped & hid. It was eventually “arrested” by the local copper doing his door checking beat. He shone a torch through the window & spotted the eyes in the beam. It wouldn’t happen today, plod doing the beat … long gone!

 

[DAPPH]

I’m not sure if it helps but many years ago I had a Hamster that would get out occasionally in the basement the only was you could catch him was when the lights were out and his eyes shone in the flashlights beam.

You needed a simple bucket trap .
When we had the small mammal farm we had 600 breeding female hamsters on the go as well as a few thousand other small mammals , Every night we set five such traps in each shed and often found a captured escapee in the bucket in the morning .