Found this large droppingon my bedroom floor this morning.
When I first saw it, I thought it was a carpet beetle. I stepped on it to kill it and nothing seemed to happen. So, I stepped on it again and realized it wasn’t a beetle.
I kicked it in to the bathroom for better light and realized it’s poop from something. Seems too big to be from a mouse. It was 1/2" long and about 1/8" wide!!
Twice in the last week, just as I was drifting off to sleep, I heard something do a sharp bang on either my bedroom window or closet wall/door. The first time I heard it, it was windy out, so I just assumed sticks hitting the window.
The second time was last night. Just two “bangs” and then nothing. I’ve heard no other noises, except something that sounds like water dripping in my bathroom, but no water is dripping (it’s driving me nuts).
There seems to be no other poop anywhere and I’m baffled (and just a little freaked out) about what is living in my house that I can’t find!!!
From the size of this dropping, I have to assume that whatever it is, is fairly large. For that size, you’d think I’d hear something moving around more often! :eek:
Please help! The maintenance guy doesn’t think it’s a rat or mouse, but maybe a chipmunk – which you’d think would be noisy. They’re not exactly sedentary creatures that seem to come out at night!
I did, too. There are so many animals that could have left a dropping that looks like that, I wanted other opinions.
This apartment is pretty small and there’s only the one dropping that I’ve found out in the open on a carpeted floor.
I’ve heard no noises other than the noises I mentioned that are very infrequent. I would think if a rat or bat was in here, I would notice it. I don’t have my lights on much, so if it were nocturnal, wouldn’t I hear more noise?
I’m thinking rat or squirrel. I had roofrats and possibly squirrels getting up into my attic for a while and I had to clean a lot of crap (literally) out of there when I fixed those problems.
Rat would be more likely, they can come in through some amazingly small holes (something like 1/4" will provide an entry point for rats) and they’re happy to live in your house (which can include in the walls, ceiling, etc). They’re not incredibly noisy. I bet a squirrel that came inside would freak out and run itself half to death trying to get out again once it heard you moving around.
You might hear some skittering noises in the walls/ceiling/crawlspace, you might not (I did). I had no clue that at least one of the little critters was roaming around my bedroom until I found a rat turd while vacuuming and then went on a hunt to find every tiny hole in the room (it was getting in through a hole where a wall furnace had been installed).
I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but I’ve read that a lot, even most, of the people who have been infected by rabid bats had no recollection of being bitten. The bats’ teeth are so sharp that you don’t always feel it.
We once had a young possum in our apartment for several weeks. We first realized something was going on when we started finding pellets of poop something like that around. Eventually I saw him when I was watching the Late, Late Show and he snuck out from under the TV cabinet, heading for the window I had open for cool air. Presumably he was sleeping under there during the day and sneaking out (and back in) through the open window at night. We named him Eric.
