To convince myself it's not rats?

[DundeeDiva]

So I found a strange thing on my kitchen worktops this morning, and the day before. Don't have a picture but it looked like a large brown pellet. When I Googled rat droppings, it looks the same. The dog has also been very restless and growly at night as she sleeps in the kitchen.

BUT I haven't seen or heard anything, and only found 2 pellets - far away from each other on worktop. Research seems to suggest if it was rats there'd be lots of them together.

Has anyone had rats and can put my stressed mind at ease?

Probably rats or mice sorry try checking all your cabinets and under the fridge etc. Make sure none of you dry pantry goods have been nibbled check for any openings. I had a rat that was coming in through the gap under the oven which I duck tapped shut. I put my cat tree outside as we were moving and had to through it out the next day and when I looked out the window the f'ing rat was in it like some damn lord. Definitely don't miss lord Albert.

Btw I knew it was coming out of the oven gap because the cats would sit and watch the gap later on I saw the arse jump back in. I really hate having rats in houses my ex lived in a house share and rat jumped out the toaster!

Chocolate raisins?

I've had mice and never saw any droppings. Put out a trap.

Rats or mice, mice tend to be smaller droppings. Check back of cupboards, pull furniture away from walls to see if anything behind. Also check pantry & food cupboards for chewed corners or anything that looks like sawdust. Also check your electrical cables. Rats are huge problem for causing electrical fires.

We get them every year but a few years ago they were really bad. We’d moved one of those IKEA toy cupboards with the plastic boxes into the lean to and put some boxes in front of them. They were left there for months while we were doing stuff around the house. It was only after i saw a mouse one night we put out traps, got 6 hits within an hour. The next day we pulled the house apart and found so many places they had been. The toy box’s were riddled with them. Poor Woody and LaLa had been turned into nests and ripped apart amongst other toys being chewed to bits.