My money is on aBeech Marter. Here is a picture of its poop.
Might be a new, rare or endangered species in your area !
That poop does look similar alright, I do not think we have those in NJ though :smack:
The ferret thing is interesting too. I am 100% sure I would have noticed a raccoon in the house. There are a few feral cats in the area, but I have to believe I would have noticed one of them in the house as well. The pest removal guy should be here soon and I left the poop in place to get his “expert” opinion on.
I decided to get a membership to the site as I have never found another forum so well versed in animal excrement…and I mean that as a compliment.
I’m glad poop has brought you to us. We know about other shit, too.
We have been watching alot of Dora as of late 
Currently living in the middle of nowhere in the south, we have plenty of wild animals around. Fortunately, they don’t come in the house! That looks like opossum poo to me. ICK ICK and ICK again! Opossums are nasty, vicious, disgusting creatures that should be killed on sight, sound, smell or even suspicion, in my (ever so humble) opinion. Of course, the fact that your BIL claims to have seen a slow-moving, half-tailed grey mouse in the house helps further the opossum theory. Opossums do move very slowly unless the need arises to move quickly (and trust me, they can book it if they want!), and do tend to look like half-tailed mice when babies/immature. Please consult an experienced exterminator as they can be very vicious, contrary to popular belief. They also can be carriers of rabies, as with most warm-blooded wild mammals. ICK, I say, and ICK again – your house may have cost you 800K, but with an opossum infestation, I wouldn't give you .08 for it!
I was thinking racoon. I had one in my garage about 8 years ago and its poop looked like this.
Pest removal guy was here. He was not sure what the poop was from, his instinct was rat though…a big mutha! He said whatever it was most have come and gone or there would have been alot more poop around. He refilled all of our bait stations and set two rat traps in the basement, damn are they big traps, break your hand big! I added door sweeps to the garage door and basement door and a rodent/bird cover to the dryer vent. I also filled the hole my brother in law saw the mouse go into.
Will update the thread as information becomes available.
It may be that we’re looking at atypical specimens here, so it might for instance be a rat with a digestive disorder.
I think “Poopasaurus Rex” would be a better band name.
I think that might be one of the few things that would be worse than having rats in your house- having rats with digestive disorders in your house…
Whatever it is, you should nuke it from orbit with this. That’s what I’d want to do if I thought I had rats in my house. If I did actually find any evidence of rats where I live, people in Australia would be complaining about the noise when I screamed.
Looks like goose poop.
I immediately thought possum poop too. I once found a baby possum in our house – no thanks to my useless beagle – and of course the poor little thing pooped. Looked just like your poop picture.
Yeah, it kind of does.
jcheckwood, you might have a goose infestation. Sneaky bastards those. They get in the walls, under the stove, come out at night looking from bread crumbs.
When you turn on the lights at night do you hear them mischievously flapping off*? Normally the honking sounds will clue you in to a goose infestation (but not always). That,. and finding piles of goose shit in the laundry room. Geese do like clean socks.
It seems your only choice to to buy a a three-toed sloth. The sloth won’t catch the geese (too slow you see) but geese find sloth to be humourless and rude and they never share their cookies with geese.
That will piss the geese off and they’ll leave on their own accord.
Oh, and welcome to the SDMB.
*Flapping Off sounds dirty, but it isn’t. **
**Ok, it can be but only if you’re a man in a chicken suit
Also, they’re greasy.
Actually the pieces were pretty dry. They look greasy in the pics due to the copious amounts of Clorex clean up I doused them with.
I have been checking the traps every day and nothing yet.
Wasn’t that a song by the Beach Boys? The Little Goose Poop?
You’ve just trapped the unknown critter inside with you? :eek: :eek: :eek:
I did get an honerable mention in a thread because I LIKE studying scat…
Looks like opossum to me - check it out. Right down to the 2" size.
No, no, geese are greasy.
Which is why you don’t see geese in your traps. They slip right out.
Sneaky bastards those geese.