Hello,
Spent the Christmas vacation stomping around Florida. Collected sample of what was left behind either by a really big, singular wild hog or . . . you know.
Anyone know of where to get this stuff tested? I've sealed and frozen it.

Sell it on ebay?
"genuine unidentified scat"

I'd make damned sure the women folk in your household don't find it in the freezer.

Been there, done that; with a beaver's tail.

It just about started a riot.

Either call or e-mail a vet, a primatologist at a zoo or museum, or a DNA testing lab. It's your sample, so it'll be up to you to pay for the analysis, explain what it is you'd like done with it, and then submit the sample.
Just be warned, fecal samples rapidly decay, so after a few hours, they're practically useless.

thanks all... taken under advisement.

I'm gonna ask a question that gonna make me sound like the worlds biggest azzhole (no wait, that would be sasquatch )
But how does hog compare to squatch, scatwise, i mean, i've seen hog scat, and it doesnt compare to squatch scat, no way, unless the squatch ate olestra ....

thanks for your advice, all. Turns out DNA analysis is indeed beyond my means considering I'm not confident I'd get anything conclusive from it anyway. I had to figure, hey, if the BFRO couldn't get a hit for M.M.s video, why should I expect to.

One thing left, though, is visual identification. The day I found this gigantic pile west of the Everglades I was birdwatching -- and carrying binocs instead of our camera. Lesson learned? maybe. I've looked all over the net but I can't find anything on hunting websites that looks at all like the scat pile I found Dec. 28.

The pile was dinner plate-sized, 10 " across. Individual scats were five in number, and all well-formed and very human-looking. The ruler on my Leatherman helped me record that the longest scat was 8 1/2 " long. Content was granular and uniform, with what looked to be chestnut hulls throughout. Obviously not chestnuts, but you get the idea.

Immediately after, I staked out a convenience store nearby until some folks pulled in that I could safely assume did some local hunting. They were taken aback by what I wanted -- 'would you look at this plastic bag?' The two of them said they were locals to Collier County and hunted hogs, but what I described didn't look like wild hog crap to them. Too big, they said (about an inch and a half in diameter), and too much.

Anyone?

'Excuse me sir, could you please step over here and look at this bag of crap."

That had to be a priceless moment there.

It was something. I couldn't think of anything else to do. Heart's still racing like a madman, I'm all endorphin'ed up. I was excited, so I took a chance.

BTW, I have been sent a LOT of pictures of hog "leavings." Nothing so far that resembles it. I'm going to have to leave this crap alone, spending your lunch hour trying to secretly look at animal droppings in your office is no way to live.

Can you post pictures of it?

like I said earlier, lesson learned. i have a nifty hydration pack with a fleece-lined pouch, which either carries my dig camera or my binoculars. this was a birdwatching expedition, so the binocs came along. No pics of the pile, this time. I really didn't expect to find anything.

By the time I got it in the bag, back to Naples, freezer, into a cooler for drive to Sebring, freezer, then back to NC, it wasn't really in the same shape as it was. DNA analysis was ruled out, so I hauled crap for nothing.

BTW, haven't gotten a single stinking offer for followup. Going to post somewhere else here, let folks know exactly where I was.

DNA analysis was ruled how and by whom?

We found some scat that must have just "happened". It was the smell that we noticed first, it smelled like a hog pen. We didn't know if we were very close to a creature or what, but then we found our specimen. It looked like human scat but truly had a very strong odor just like a hog pen odor. It also looked as though what ever left the scat had been eating the berries off of the cedar trees. Something ran away from us just a few steps away from the scat, as it ran it broke lower branches off the cedar trees which were all around us. All I could see of what ever was running away was that it was on all fours and had round ears. Laugh all you like but I think it was the juvenile sasquatch. We came back with zip lock bags and gathered the scat. The ranchers wife gave us the O.K. to put the bag in the freezer at the hunting cabin. We were going to return in a few weeks with ice chests and collect the thing. Before we returned the power was lost at the cabin due to a storm and the freezer contents were lost. The ranchers wife decided to throw out our sample along with the rest of the freezer contents! :doh: I think I've mentioned this before and got the old "Yeah-right". As soon as deer season ends we shall try again.

So then the sasquatch said to the rabbit, "Do you have problems with s&*t sticking to your fur?"
The rabbit said "No.."
So the squatch promptly wiped his arse with the rabbit....


Sorry...was just too tempted...

sounds like a scatty job, but i guess someone has to do it.

Also kinda curious as what kind of testing can they do to poop? as far as figuring out what left it? Sorry, the only thing i know about science is that i live on a giant rock that circles a giant gas ball, both in the middle of nowhere.

salvelinus_fontinalis Posted on Jan 17 2005, 05:27 PM



This quote is priceless -It just makes me laugh.

What was the diameter?

Was it segmented?

Did it look like this? see below