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Is this yucky thing scat or slime mold?

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I took a picture of this in mixed wooded hills in Oregon in winter. I thought it might be animal scat and was wondering what type of animal, but I asked someone who thought it might be slime mold, at which point I remembered I didn't notice a smell from it.

Can anyone identify this from the picture?

Surroundings:

surrounding ground & leaves

Close-up:

close-up

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After looking through all of the pages of Google Image search slime molds, I was unable to find anything that resembled the brown stuff in the above images. There is a list of the Slime Molds of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington and nothing in that looks similar either.

I would say that it is runny scat from an unknown animal.

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