Roof Rat Vs Mouse Droppings

Roof rat droppings are very similar to the house mouse but much thicker.

Roof rat vs mouse droppings.

Roof rat excrement is longer and fatter than mouse poop but similar in shape color and distribution pattern. You can see that a house mouse turd is like a small grain of rice even smaller than that often with pointy ends. Typically the length will still be the same but the thickness will be much greater than the typical field mouse. Rat droppings are like twenty times the mass of house mouse poop.

Droppings are the most commonly encountered evidence of rodent activity. Droppings from the norway rat closest to the penny is the largest of the three and has blunt ends. An adult rat typically produces 40 to 50 droppings per day. Rodent feces can carry harmful bacteria diseases and viruses including the hantavirus.

Norway rats tend to leave droppings that are a bit shorter but even thicker than mouse and roof rat pellets. Mouse poop far right is much much smaller than rat droppings. Rat droppings rat droppings in contrast are thicker and sometimes shorter in length than mouse poop. Droppings are typically found around where these creatures eat.

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. We specialize in rodent contol whether it s rats or mice. Typically the length will still be the same but the thickness will be much greater than the typical field mouse. Look at the below photos.

A norway rat has capsule shaped feces while a roof rat has spindle shaped droppings and a house mouse has rod shaped excrement. Droppings from the roof rat middle is a little smaller than the poop from a norway rat and has tapered ends. Even a small rat infestation can produce literally thousands of droppings in a short period of time. 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.

But a rat pellet is way bigger much fatter with rounded ends.