Is the animal droppings from mice or rats?

Hello, three weeks ago we found droppings in a cupboard on the first floor where our gas central heating is located. Our fireplace is right next to it. It seemed too big to be mouse droppings, as we often have to deal with mice in the ceilings, basement, and attic of our old house. We suspected a rat, and we called a pest control company. He immediately said it was a brown rat and placed a stone there for it to gnaw on. Minimal gnaw marks.

You could tell if you looked really closely. I recently ordered a live trap for rats. What happened? I've caught 6 tiny shrews in the last week. The strange thing is, the same droppings are also in the trap. Can anyone help us with the pictures and tell us whether we still have a rat or whether it's just the mice? Best wishes, Aline

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Blindi56
3 months ago

You can appreciate the size badly, but rat jersey is almost 1 cm tall, mice not even 1/2. Where rats live, there are no mice (in the case of nicked mice I am not sure, in the sense there are no mice). That’s why I assume that if you’ve already caught nicks, there’s only one.

Spikes, however, live more in the earth, in small caves. 1st floor I’ve never heard.

MrsssP
3 months ago

He looks very big, so probably from rats.

I know that he is usually only 2-3 mm tall so maximum. But this one seems to be a good 1-2cm tall, which is almost 10 times tall.

This is perhaps not even a rat, but rather a march – but surely you cannot be there.

If it is said that it can be a trekking rat, that will probably be right. Hiking rats are bigger than normal rats.

PatchrinT
3 months ago
Reply to  MrsssP

a marten in the basement? No

MrsssP
3 months ago
Reply to  PatchrinT

I’m not sure. But I just wanted to make it clear that the cot is very big.

PatchrinT
3 months ago

and who knows how big some mice become. We people don’t see everything that’s going down

MrsssP
3 months ago

Just crazy.

PatchrinT
3 months ago

Rats can also become very large. The “mother animals” we never see live in the underground and are only fed by the “Oberirdian” sequence. These mother animals become as big as a small dog. Rats find themselves in old houses old drainage pipes (ton pipes), part of them for the walk from one building to another. 100 years ago the houses were underground. These pipe systems end in the rainwater channel or dirty water. When, 15 years ago, two roads continued to take place with me, rats fled and suddenly came in other gardens from the earth. I had seven rats. Thus, they have evolved through “tunnel systems ” that have long fallen into place.

PatchrinT
3 months ago

What does the fighter want to recognize that it is a walking rat? A cam would bring clarity. Some mice would also be on the same place so that the heap would appear bigger. A rat to 80%,Wanderratte unconscious,her no……CAM

TheAmigos
3 months ago

These are more rats