Can anyone identify this animal Scat

[magicheater]

Can anyone identify this animal dropping? The pile is about as large a one a very big dog would make.
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How about a little physical perspective on size. What is the back round material? Fox are omnivores too, turkeys have an amazing pile of doo-doo also.

 

[dave1949]

I agree on the raccoon scat.

Reference dogs and berries. Every dog I have owned for the last twenty years has been a voracious eater of berries. Whether they are blackberries, blueberries, thimble berries or salal (native berry to the PNW) the dogs will go out and pick them and eat them. The native berry bushes are not a problem but the domestic blueberries I have to keep fenced to keep the dogs out of them. When the young dogs see the older ones picking and eating the blackberries they learn quickly how to avoid the thorns. It is comical to watch them learn to pick them carefully with their mouths so as to avoid the thorns. Very methodical unlike the salal where all you see are bushes shaking as they dive in an gorge themselves resulting in a purple poop. Salal berries were actually used by the Indians to tighten up the stools of their young so no loose dog droppings.

The three dogs we have had on this place all eat blackberries. Every walk this time of year is berry eating opportunity to them, we have wild blackberries along some of our trails. They can smell the difference between ripe and not ready yet too, they only pick the rip ones. Like you say, they nibble them off gently with their lips.
The coyotes eat their share too.

 

[studor]

+1 on raccoon but could also be black bear if you have them in the neighbourhood. Like Furu -- our old Lab loved wild rasperries