Please help me Identify the culprit of this poo in my bowl outide of my tent

A house trained one? Seriously, from the color, I would think the cat or possibly a raccoon.

I do not think that it was a house trained domesticated cat, since there was no one else around and we were around 8 miles from the trailhead. However, the feces may have been from a cat. We heard the cat calling out and circling our tent (but never had the guts to stick out our heads as this happened). I have no idea if it was a mountain lion or a bobcat, but it definitely sounded like some sort of cat.

if it's a raccoon, I'd probably burn the bowl. Seriously, you do NOT want to mess with raccoon roundworms.

Considering the area you're in I was thinking maybe bobcat, or maybe feral cats. It's hard to tell from the picture, but the coloring looks almost black which normally indicates blood in the stool, so I would think it would be some type of small carnivore.

If you develop a short list of possible animals, then go to the web and search for "(animal name) vocalizations". Several web sites have lists of each animal and will play one version of the animal sound. Keep doing that until you hear something that matches what you remember.

I thought that I heard a mountain lion scream the other night. It turned out to be a grey fox scream.

–B.G.–

My apologies. The coke made me a little crazy.

"My apologies. The coke made me a little crazy."

Well, at least you packed out your TP.

"3) What is this white powdery stuff?"

Dried saliva from the offending animal.

–B.G.–

Clearly mini-sasquatch!

I've heard that foxes will not poop on bare ground and prefer rocks. Any foxes in the area?

No clue about the white powdery stuff…

I don’t know if this would help at all?

Blair witch?

Mini Me?

And now you know to always turn your stuff upside down if you're going to leave it outside!

and my guess it just happened when it was checking out your bowl, just like a mouse would.

Was chupacabra – but I'd guess raccoon…

One evening up in Canada an owl met up with my windsheild and totally covered the windsheild with a powdery substance. So, maybe a ground burrowing owl found it nice of you to provide for it's evening potty break. Maybe it had the powdery substance on it feathers as it nestled in for a good dump.

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