Roof Rat Vs Mouse Droppings

Even a small rat infestation can produce literally thousands of droppings in a short period of time.

Roof rat vs mouse droppings.

A norway rat has capsule shaped feces while a roof rat has spindle shaped droppings and a house mouse has rod shaped excrement. 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. You can see that a house mouse turd is like a small grain of rice even smaller than that often with pointy ends. Roof rat droppings are very similar to the house mouse but much thicker.

These fecal pellets are usually dark colored 1 2 inch in length and pointed at both ends. Typically the length will still be the same but the thickness will be much greater than the typical field mouse. But a rat pellet is way bigger much fatter with rounded ends. An adult rat typically produces 40 to 50 droppings per day.

Look at the below photos. Rat droppings are like twenty times the mass of house mouse poop. Droppings are typically found around where these creatures eat. Droppings are the most commonly encountered evidence of rodent activity.

Mouse poop far right is much much smaller than rat droppings. Norway rat droppings poop norway rat poop droppings are even thicker that the roof rats and typically much shorter than field mice and roof rats. Rodent feces can carry harmful bacteria diseases and viruses including the hantavirus. Typically the length will still be the same but the thickness will be much greater than the typical field mouse.

Droppings from the norway rat closest to the penny is the largest of the three and has blunt ends.