What Your Poop Is Trying to Tell You !

Type 1: Separate hard lumps that look like deer or rabbit poop. These are typically the most difficult to pass and are widely considered a sign of constipation.

Type 2: A unified, sausage-shaped log consisting of a mass of Type 1 poops all glomped together. Not as difficult to pass as a type 1, but still requiring a lot of straining, this also may indicate a slightly less severe bout of constipation

Type 3: This is actually what you want your poop to look like, albeit a bit on the dry side. Still so long as you aren't blowing gaskets trying to push this out, this is a perfectly healthy poopie.

Type 4: The Venus de Milo of craps, this is the "ideal" texture of poop. It should be sausage-shaped, with a smooth, velvety surface and encased in mucus. Lovely.

Type 5: This is a bit on the soft side, not quite diarrhea but definitely not an ideal normal bowel movement. These soft blobs with clear-cut edges are passed easily.

Type 6: Also known as mudbutt, Type 6 stools are indicative of moderate diarrhea. These fluffy pieces with ragged edges splatter out as a mushy pile of stool with no resemblance to the sausage-shaped stools we hope for.

Type 7: When Mount Poosuvius is getting ready to blow and you suddenly find yourself sprinting for the bathroom, get ready for a Type 7 stool—if you can even really call this oily brown splatter in your shorts "stool".