12-10-2015, 06:29 PM
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Thank you all for your replies, i'm now thinking it might be a Rat. The hole is about 1 1/2 ft in width, but quite deep. It must be an animal because we cover it up at night with earth and the next day its open again.We live opposite a Common, where we have, Deers, Badgers, Foxes, Squirrels, Snakes everything.
12-10-2015, 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by stevmk2
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Not the beginnings of a sinkhole is it?
Next door but one but one had a hole appear just like that then the next day it was 10 feet across and 6 feet deep.
There used to be a quarry years ago at the back of our gardens years ago apparently. stevmk2
I agree with Morticia, I'd want to see too. Set up an outdoor cam, yours for about £80 from Maplin!
12-10-2015, 11:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Sweetsue
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Don't think it's big enough for badgers - they tend to have major earth works. Could be foxes though, 1 1/2 ft. is a big big for rats!
That's what I was thinking Sue, foxes. They are very pongy, can you smell anything?
12-10-2015, 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by susiejaeger
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Thank you all for your replies, i'm now thinking it might be a Rat. The hole is about 1 1/2 ft in width, but quite deep. It must be an animal because we cover it up at night with earth and the next day its open again.We live opposite a Common, where we have, Deers, Badgers, Foxes, Squirrels, Snakes everything.
I thought those were pebbles not boulders If you look at the hole it is 'flat' badgers, foxes, rabbits scrape out the holes so they are generally dish shaped.
13-10-2015, 08:56 AM
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Looking again at the picture and the size you say, I would now say fox.Is there any debris from and around the hole?
Is there any black poo near the hole?
Where I walk with my dog each morning which is a sports field that I have access to from my back garden, there is a disused sand pit. There are holes there that the foxes have dug. Nothing in them, but lots of fox poo in the area.
13-10-2015, 12:02 PM
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Hi Emjay, Its too small for Badgers, we have had Badgers digging 3ft holes under a fence to get in, there is no Foxes Poo or any droppings at all. I have just looked on the Internet and saw a photo similar to mine, and it was a Hedgehog which is very possible, as we already have a resident Hedgehog who has dug a hole under our Garden Shed and sleeps there, so it could be possible its another one.I will try and take a closer photo of it today.
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