Who is crapping in my yard??? Need Inexpensive outdoor camera.

[BPTactical]

I thought someone was crapping in my backyard. Turns out it was raccoons.

I?m putting $1 on it being raccoons. Let me know if I?m wrong and I?ll pay up.

I’m with Ray on this one.

[TEAMRICO]

Picture of the so called crap?

[bellavite1]

It was a big fat turd, but not THAT fat!

[Hummer]

I have dozens of trail cam photos of coyote, fox, raccoon, bear, moose and deer crapping in the yard. Which do you want to see?

How about you post a good pic of the offending scat and I'll tell you what it is. Scatologist by profession, you know.

And, skip the cheap junk trail cams. A waste of money. Go Browning or go home. I like black spec ops models.

[bellavite1]

Ok, I got video.
It's a fox.
How do I get rid of it (legally)?

[ray1970]

Ok, I got video.
It's a fox.

Great. Looks like I owe you a dollar.

[ChadAmberg]

This is a bit more than $50 but you can watch the video live or recorded using the Reolink app on your phone.
It will send you notifications on motion events if you want.
It records to a micro SD card.
The internal battery is charged by the solar panel that you can mount up to about 10 feet away from the camera

https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-REOL.../dp/B08SBX2P3B

I have three of an older model of this, they work great.

I rarely use my Browning Trail Cameras any more.

One of them has been mounted 15 feet up on a power pole for 2 years.

Yeah I've had various versions of the Reolinks for years, they work great.

[Little Dutch]

Ok, I got video.
It's a fox.
How do I get rid of it (legally)?

Is the fox causing actual problems, or just crapping on the deck? I'd rather have the fox in the neighborhood than rodents. YMMV, but I've never found my neighborhood foxes to cause many actual issues.

[BushMasterBoy]

Another thing they don't like is mothballs. Put a bag of mothballs near there scat. I had a rabbit chew the wires on my truck. I put mothballs out. Coyotes were doing kills near the house and screaming about it, so I started peeing outside at night.You have to realize a fox is just another dog and has a keen sense of smell.

[Martinjmpr]

Is the fox causing actual problems, or just crapping on the deck? I'd rather have the fox in the neighborhood than rodents. YMMV, but I've never found my neighborhood foxes to cause many actual issues.

For sure. If we didn't have dogs I'd love to have a fox in my yard. Eat up the mice and rats that are attracted to it because our backyard neighbor insists on feeding every bird in the Western Hemisphere.