What kind of scat is that? Poo from the Foona-Lagoona Baboona? (The remarkable Foon, who eats sizzling hot pebbles that fall off the moon.)
Well, I think I know.
At the end of breeding season, one of the rams lost the crayon off of his marking harness- the rivets broke and the crayon holder came free.
I could not find the crayon for quite a while. When I did spot it, I could tell someone had chewed it up quite a bit.
The likely suspect:
January 13, 2013 at 11:26 pm
I can just imagine your surprise, CF. Wow! A lapis lazuli meteorite! The sky really is falling (has fallen). My first thought was you had stumbled across the scat of the mythical Blue-Nosed Leopard slug, but on second thought I realized it was indigenous only to the wilds of Mt. Baker National Park.
I wish I could think of the title of the Thomas McGuane short story about the guy on a mission for his boss to chaperone home a very expensive hunting dog the boss had bought and paid for. The escort loses the dog. Upon learning of the fellow’s plight, a service station owner summed up the highly unpredictable acts of dogs by sharing a couple strange behaviors he had observed dogs to be capable of. Sorry I can’t share his quote (nor the name of the ss), but where dogs are concerned, I’ve always remembered it.
Years ago our pet Corgi swallowed a bath toy called a “grow sponge,” in the shape of an alligator. Put ‘em in the bathwater and the things expand to fifty times their flaccid state. We had to dose her with liberal amounts of hydrogen peroxide to dislodge it from her innards. By the time the sponge ‘gator was disgorged, it had already quadrupled in size! My wife informed me the Corgi also consumed half a recipe of play dough! Now if the chalk culprit had been a cat, the blue scat would have gone undetected. But then again, a cat wouldn’t have chewed on the chalk, would it! Very funny post! TMJ
January 14, 2013 at 12:39 am
Cute! I thought it might be from an animal eating blue-colored berries, but this is a much better and more interesting explanation! What comes in must go out!
January 14, 2013 at 2:44 am
too funny. sounds like something our golden would do. she will eat absolutely anything!
January 14, 2013 at 3:34 am
Yes…. Maybe I should ask Premier if their marking crayons are “food grade”!
January 14, 2013 at 4:14 am
I once fed my turkeys red cabbage and their poop looked just like that. What a funny story.
January 14, 2013 at 6:52 am
LOL, we noticed dark blue droppings from the emus once. Turns out they were eating blackberries.
January 14, 2013 at 5:49 pm
That is hilarious! Giant smurf poops!
January 14, 2013 at 6:51 pm
Lol! That must have been a shock at first! My friends had a huge Bullmastiff that ate anything and everything. In a house with 7 children there was always something to get. The kids called her droppings “party-poo”, because “it had confetti in it” and didn’t mind the picking up so much because of the daily colorful surprizes.
January 20, 2013 at 5:35 pm
texomamorganlady that reminds me of a post on the Crappy Pictures blog about “cat glitter.”