The pungent stink of fresh droppings told him Dancer was nervous.
Once they came across the fresh droppings of an elephant, still steaming in the chill of dawn, a knee-high pile everybody climbed out of the Toyota to examine closely.
The path ahead was straight for fifty yards or so, and he could see a pile of fresh droppings, still steaming slightly in the cool morning air.
While she used dried horse dung for fuel, she found little use for fresh droppings on her sleeping furs, and the foal seemed unhappy about it as well.
"Because of the fresh droppings, I think they are somewhere behind us," he said.
The caravansary courtyard held only themselves and their beasts, though Harden could tell by the fresh droppings swept into a corner that at least two other caravans had come in today.
When he brought in a pail of milk with fresh droppings in it the priest in charge became very upset for no good reason.
They had seen the fresh droppings of mountain goat that day and in the morning swore that there would be fresh meat.
The moment he saw fresh droppings in one of the newly reoccupied stalls, an anger grew in him visibly.
It was not really thirsty, and wanted to sniff at fresh droppings a few feet away.