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Hi, I found this today, dh thinks it is a rodent dropping??! Is it & from what??

I am really unsettled.

There would be more if you have rodents.

No such thing as one dropping.

Put a line of flour down across all the doorways. If something's there it'll leave footprints overnight.

Then use a trap with peanut butter to catch it. If you use a humane one be sure to head about a mile away from your house before releasing it - I thought we had loads of mice in our old house but it turns out it was just the same one kept coming back!

I can’t see much there!

You’ll either have one mouse or a family. Traps are best then maybe get pest control to seal areas where they’re getting in.

I would say a cat but mine is good in bursts and then not…

Is it the light brown thing top left? Cant tell from the pic as everything is light brown. Droppings are usually darker in my experience & lots of them . Never just one. Behind cupboard kickboards , inside cupboards or on floor by holes in skirting boards. Even the tiniest holes need blocking re mice. I blocked 7 or 8 teeny tiny holes in a new to me, Victorian flat once, as I found droppings & the scratching in the walls was constant.

PP need to click on the photo to open it up to full size and see what OP is on about.

It does look a bit like a dropping, but agree with PP unlikely to be just one. Could someone have brought something in on a shoe?

Hi, yes you need to click on the image to see it, sorry I should have said. We don't walk there with shoes on, and we don't own a cat. It is near the skirting board, I can only see the one but will have a look around.

Do you get frogs? It looks like what we have in the garden, about the size of a peanut.

I hope I’m wrong as it’s hard to tell relative size but I had some like that sporadically and it was a rat.

Mice droppings are tiny and usually very hard. Rat droppings are bigger and more likely to be solo. Rats tend to live alone (or with their immediate family) so there’s not as many of them to poo. Also, more likely just to pop in and out of their dwelling rather than mice which run all over the place.

^^ that’s what I was told by the pest control people who came to deal with problem.

We recently hosted a rat, it left single poops in the pantry. Google and compare.

Coffee bean

Rodent droppings look similar to hamster droppings if you have seen them, small, thin and the shape of a grain of rice (or sometimes C-shaped). This is far too big and the wrong shape. I predict this is a coffee bean or chocolate raisin! Please pick up in some kitchen roll, investigate by sniffing and report back😄

Could it be an apple pip?