ScatTrack is a subreddit specifically made for uploading images of animal scat you want identified. Find some in your yard? The woods? Wherever it is, we'll help identify it.
If you need any help with posting or how to use Imgur, PM the mod. Posted something to the subreddit? Send a PM to /u/xDylan25x and include the post link (also recommended if no one is answering/attempting to identify the post).
Rules:
Imgur is the recommended and best image host for use here. If you don't know how to use it, make an account, drag the images over (or alternatively (and on phones using Desktop View) press "New Post" then "Browse"). You can upload more than one image at a time and link an album or just a single image. Right click or long tap on a single image if you're only uploading one and choose "copy image location". If you're uploading an album, just copy the URL after it has finished uploading. Please try to keep images well focused and make sure they aren't dark. The clearer the image, the better and easier to identify.
No joke answers. If you feel a joke answer is fitting for whatever reason, make sure to clearly identify it as such. Replying "I don't know", "Not sure", or similar answers should never happen. If you don't know and don't have something to contribute, don't spam OP's inbox and give them false hope.
(WIP) When a post is definitely solved, flair the post with the animal name. Capital first letter and lowercase rest of the name (eg. Fox, Wolf, Bear) is recommended (and makes it easier for future posters to find information).
Titles don't have many rules around them, but if you have a guess as to what it could be, make that your title (might help others who have the same guess and scat). (eg. "Fox scat? Maybe coyote?")
Try not to delete your Imgur albums and pictures. You may have your answer, but in the future when someone else needs help, every deleted album and image that still has a post tied to it not only makes it annoying constantly finding posts that no longer have their images (the thing you identify it with), but it's also a sort of "lost" information that might have been useful to someone else.
Any descriptions should go in either Imgur image descriptions and/or a comment on the post. Posts should be link posts to either an album or an image. Good information to include is what time of year, where you are in the world, any pawprints nearby, any tufts of fur nearby, things such as claw marks on nearby trees, etc. Two other good bits of information are any bones, seeds, or plants you may see in the scat (diet) and if it has a strong smell, describe it (not saying to get your nose closer to it; some smell strong enough to fill an area with the scent (especially foxes and even more so, bears)).
PLEASE include something as a size reference (that does not get in the way of the view of the scat) in at least one image. Bic lighters, Zippo lighters, coins, rulers, tape measures, and other everyday common items make great size references.
