Roof Rat Vs Mouse Droppings

Rat droppings are like twenty times the mass of house mouse poop.

Roof rat vs mouse droppings.

Roof rat droppings are very similar to the house mouse but much thicker. Mouse poop far right is much much smaller than rat droppings. Norway rat poop droppings norway rat poop droppings are even thicker that the roof rats and typically much shorter than field mice and roof rats. But a rat pellet is way bigger much fatter with rounded ends.

Droppings from the roof rat middle is a little smaller than the poop from a norway rat and has tapered ends. Droppings are typically found around where these creatures eat. A norway rat has capsule shaped feces while a roof rat has spindle shaped droppings and a house mouse has rod shaped excrement. You can see that a house mouse turd is like a small grain of rice even smaller than that often with pointy ends.

Droppings are the most commonly encountered evidence of rodent activity. Roof rat droppings are very similar to the house mouse but much thicker. We specialize in rodent contol whether it s rats or mice. Typically the length will still be the same but the thickness will be much greater than the typical field mouse.

These fecal pellets are usually dark colored 1 2 inch in length and pointed at both ends. Rodent feces can carry harmful bacteria diseases and viruses including the hantavirus. Droppings from the norway rat closest to the penny is the largest of the three and has blunt ends. Look at the below photos.

An adult rat typically produces 40 to 50 droppings per day.