Although their ecology has been well studied across their range, spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta) diets, especially within Namibia, are understudied when compared to other large African carnivores in southern Africa. Large carnivores outside of protected areas often faces persecution by farmers as they are often perceived as being livestock killers and spotted hyaenas on arid farmlands in Namibia does not escape this prejudice. Here we investigated the scat composition of spotted hyaenas outside of protected areas on farmlands in south-western parts of Namibia. A total of 53 scat samples were collected from which 203 hair samples were used for identification purposes. Our results indicate that 69.46% of hairs in scat were of wildlife species whilst 30.54% of hairs were from domesticated species. The asymptote reached also suggested that 53 scat samples were sufficient to describe the spotted hyaeans's diet in this particular area. We suspect that an outbreak of rabies in the study area as well as anthropogenic food sources could have influenced prey consumption. As the majority of prey consumed were of wildlife species (such as kudu Tragelaphus strepsiceros and Hartmann's Mountain zebra Equus zebra hartmannae) it is suggested that should the natural prey base be maintained livestock predation could be mitigated. We recommend that future researchers investigate the diet composition of the only other apex predator in this study area, leopards (Panther pardus) which could describe the prey selection and dietary overlap between these two large carnivores.