rat poo

[John Dirks Jr]

Will rats tend to pick a spot where they like to deposit their droppings or will it be randomly spread about?

Yesterday I was walking up a sidewalk to a front door and saw what looked like rat droppings on the sidewalk. There was at least 20-30 pieces within a 2 sq ft area. I figured, why all right here?

I looked up above the pile and about 6 ft high there is a corner trim piece for vinyl siding that is open on the bottom. This trim piece went all the way up and thru the vinyl soffit material. I suppose it terminated with an open end above the soffit. This pile of droppings was directly underneath this trim piece. I am wondering if there is vermin in the attic that has decided to use the open end of the corner trim as a "toilet" so to speak.

What about squirrel droppings? Do they look anything like rat droppings?

[Jim Morrison]

Both rats and squirrels use latrines. What you saw sounds like squirrel shite to me.

[Scottpat]

To the untrained eye rat and squirrel, aka Tree Rats have similar looking droppings. Squirrel droppings have a nuttier taste.[:-sour]

[hausdok]

Hi,

Yes, although they generally will crap anywhere, there always seems to be one or two areas where there's a whole lot of crap and nothing to necessarily attract them, such as heat. Entrances to borrows are usually heavily littered.

OT - OF!!!

M.