"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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IIRC, the OP speculated about getting rid of the suspected hedgehog
family
when the group's provisional 'verdict' was hedgehog. So, if concern
about
toxacara was her prime reason for seeking guidance as to the identity of
the
'culprit', and she remained concerned when thinking it was hedgehog, it
isn't entirely surprising if some concluded advice regarding the levels
of
risk might be helpful.

All Judith said was "I want to identify the pooh to find out if
there's any healthrisk". She didn't mention toxocara, I did.

Presumably, you mentioned toxacara because you believed that might be one of
the possible health risks she was concerned about. If so, I don't believe
that was an unreasonable assumption on your part, and I don't recall any
correction being posted.


It's very clear from the misleading descriptions of both poohs from
mistaken people, that very few have actually seen fox AND hedgehog pooh
irl. Some of them may have seen one or the other, without knowing which
it was, or non-scale pictures of one or the other Nobody who has seen
both irl could ever mistake one for the other.

I agree that people who have seen both hedgehog and fox poo (which has to be
nearly everybody, surely), and known they had done so and recognised them
for what they were (which seems far less likely), would be unlikely to
mistake one for the other in a real life situation. However, the advisors in
this instance could not actually see (or smell!) the scat, and were working
from a third party's written description, so, in their defence, were at a
disadvantage.

Judith had no idea what
hedgehog pooh looks like, but neither did her "advisers" who said it was
hedgehog.

If most people here saw a child's play space lawn pretty heavily
covered with FOX SIZED pooh, most would question possible health risk
regardless of the source. I'm not surprised Judith did.

No, nor am I. I was puzzled, at the outset, as to why it mattered what the
source was, since, regardless of the source, it obviously needed cleaning up
if kids were to use it.