Is this rat fur?

[Aquabi]

I have a major phobia of rats. So much so I can’t even look at pics of them or watch Ratatouille. The emojis that came up just now after I typed said animal freaked me out.

So I opened our downstairs built in cupboard earlier and saw wires hanging from the ceiling. They looked frayed. But they also have fur/hair wrapped around them. I have convinced myself this is due to rat activity. Although I have not seen any other signs. I do have long, black hair and dogs with double fur coats who shed a lot. Our house has been totally gutted and redecorated - new floors, plastering, wiring etc. So why are these wires looking chewed?? We haven’t got around to decorating the cupboards yet.

I am in a bit of a state. I have called dh but he’s not answering. The only other thing I can think of is that our WiFi did go down in the middle of the night and dh went to go fix it. He may have accidentally pulled at the wires.

We once had a R in the garden and I got a guy around and he assured me our house was solid and pretty well protected from them.

What do you think??

No, that is human and potentially dog hair.

I promise it looks absolutely nothing at all like rat fur.

I don’t think it is , looks like human hair

Looks too long imo
More likely human hair off a knot which missed the bin migrated along the floor

You haven’t decorated that cupboard yet so it’s likely to be just old human hair.

Nothing like tuffs of rat fur. Plus you would have heard them by now.

I should say the hair was probably three feet off the ground.

Im just worried as we do a good job with hoovering hair/fluff - I use our cordless shark twice a day downstairs just to keep things tidy.

Theres two textures in the wire. The one human hair and then a more wispier fur like ball.

Vermin hair is much much shorter.

And that's typical shit wiring. If it had been chewed there would be really rough edges.

The wires look cut. Rat-chewed wires look different to that.

Oh THANK YOU all so much. I could cry out of relief.

Looks like insulation fluff to me.

Unless you’ve got Splinter himself living in your house, it’s not rat hair.

That is awful, potentially hazardous wiring though and needs sorting ASAP!

As someone who's owned many as pets, and personally caught them in the act of chewing wires as well as discovered the evidence left behind afterwards, those are 100% definitely not gnawed wires, and that is absolutely 100% definitely not their fur. I promise you. Nothing to worry about at all.

Edit: oh, except for the fact that wiring looks dangerous as hell. But no tiny beasties involved.

It looks too long to be rat fur. The wires have been snipped and not gnawed at because the plastic casing is straight and smooth.

Panic not, my friend!

That wiring looks potentially lethal, but not in any way rodent related.

Former rat owner - not rat fur, theirs is very short and quite harsh, works its way into fabrics, the undercoat is a very fine very short fluff.

Ratty nibblings look like nibblings, they'd nibble along the length of the wire before they chomped through it, you'd also find rat turds and little spat out nibbly bits.

If they're hanging from the ceiling, it looks like someone has crawled underneath them and got the hair wrapped around the (hellish) wiring.