Mouse droppings???

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Just come downstairs, went to check if washing hanging up was dry and spotted some random clump of what looks like a dropping. There was a couple of tiny bits of it over the clothes that were hanging up on the airer and a bit on the floor below.
picture attached for reference.
please someone tell me I haven’t got mice and this is mud or something that’s somehow been in the washing machine!!!!

Its hard to tell but the smaller one looks a bit like a mouse dropping if i'm honest.
you could put some traps down anyway just in case it is.
Do you live in an older house?

I don’t think they’re mouse droppings. Mouse droppings look more like little pellets and are small and shaped like a grape

Those look to big for mouse droppings Op, they tend to be the size and shape of small seeds.

This. But shaped like a seed - did you mean grape pip rather than grape?

What could it be if not mice droppings? Please say not a rat?
No food in the cupboards has been ripped open etc so I’m praying this is some sort of mud.
Anyone fluent in mice/rat droppings able to further advise? (Having a nervous breakdown over here!!)
thanks x

It would be strange for mice to leave droppings on clean clothes but not anywhere else.

Doesn’t look like mouse droppings to me. Also, I don’t think mice would be climbing up into your washing. They can climb a bit, but actually climbing up into washing would not be easy for them and there’s no food in it for them so why would they? Wild animals tend to focus on what’s necessary, ie food, shelter, and reproduction, not playing in the washing. I’ve had mice in the house before, you’d have lots of little droppings scattered all over the place, not a big clump like that.

That looks like something like a chunk of biscuit that has gone through the washing machine.

Or chocolate maybe.

We get mouse dropping around the bin (ancient house with lots of access!) but they’re always always a little cylinder shape, very formed, yours do not look like mouse droppings.

Sorry but looks like rat droppings to me 😞

Definitely not mouse droppings

could also be a shrew they look like this sometimes? have you seen anything like this anywhere else?

I thought the same. When I had mice, the droppings were like small grains of rice, but when I had a rat in the house, the droppings were much bigger and irregular.

Why would a rat get in the washing and nowhere else? They are usually after food.

Mouse and rat droppings are both pellet shaped. That is not a rodent shit.

It really doesn't, rat droppings are just like larger mouse droppings.

OP google rat or mouse dropping images to put your mind at rest.

(Speaking as an owner of a cat who regularly brings live rats into the house, so plenty of experience with droppings!)

My bloody husband has just informed me he has seen mice droppings in the loft before but never thought to mention this 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳

We had mice in our garage and they were all over the clothes I had stored in there. They ripped/chewed them and dragged them to make nests for their mouse babies. They furnished the inside of the nests beautifully with the chewed off ‘noodles’ from those kittens you get to wash the car. I always wondered why they didn’t just go inside the mittens.

Hmmm well none of the clothes were moved off the airer or chewed, also my kids have got sketch books and colouring books etc strewn across the living room and none of them have been shredded so I’m hoping this mornings findings wasn’t mouse related, although what my husbands casually mentioned about droppings in the loft I’m now on red alert 😂🫣

I think one of the kids has had a little bit of an accident in their underwear and it’s not cleaned properly in the wash.

For the brave: if you rub the dropping between your fingers and sniff, it smells like shit.

Best way I've found to differentiate with mud, crumbs etc.

Soon after our cat died, a mouse came into our downstairs toilet via a pipe at the bottom of the sink that does under the floor. I noticed because of a very musty, pissy smell at first and then I saw the droppings, like small brown grains of rice. We blocked up that hole and every other entrance we could find .. one under the kitchen sink too. We hunted round and couldn’t find it, so it must have been going back outside and we blocked it out. We have another cat now and no mice. So if you’re worried OP, check for any small gaps around pipes that lead outside or under floors, check for musty pee smells and droppings that look like dark grains of rice.