ID my animal dropping

[Tim Hall]

Up in the loft this evening I spied these:


Are they rat turds?   I heard animal scrabbling for a few days a couple of months back, but it's quiet now.

(Phew, moving out in 3 weeks)

[Mrs Pingu]

https://www.rentokil.co.uk/rats/signs-of-rats/
?

[Kim]

Giant mousepoo says rats to me...

[Wobbly John]

What has a hazelnut in every bite?

 

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

What has a hazelnut in every bite?

 

[David Martin]

Up in the loft this evening I spied these:


Are they rat turds?   I heard animal scrabbling for a few days a couple of months back, but it's quiet now.

(Phew, moving out in 3 weeks)

All I can see is a minus sign.

[Tim Hall]

It was there earlier. Anyway, try this link. https://photos.app.goo.gl/K3KDeTTjZ1SuEX0Q2

[hellymedic]

I could only see a minus sign till I followed the link.
I'd agree rats are likely 

[Feline]

Hard to tell the scale since you've not put a ruler or anything obvious in the pic with the turds 

Rat poo is surprisingly large though- I would guess mice from first looking.

My rats are doing giant poo today because they had left over takeaway naan bread (peshwari) for their supper last night (pets) 

[Kim]

Hard to tell the scale since you've not put a ruler or anything obvious in the pic with the turds 

I'm guessing that since it's in a loft *above* the insulation, the generic_poo_colour cable on the right is probably RG6 coaxial, nominally just under 7mm in diameter.  That makes the poo a lot bigger than I've encountered from meeces.

[Tim Hall]

Kim has the coax correct. The turds are about half to three quarters of an inch (12mm to 20mm) long.

[Aunt Maud]

You've got rats.

[Tim Hall]

You've got rats.

Arse. I thought as much.

<reaches for his Browning>

[hbunnet]

My copy of "What Shat That" says ~ 0.5inch long with blunt ends for Brown Rat.

[Andrij]

My copy of "What Shat That" says ~ 0.5inch long with blunt ends for Brown Rat.

Wow, that really is a thing!

[Cudzoziemiec]

I can't even see a minus sign or a link in the OP. But if it's rats, suggest introducing a barn owl. 

[Aunt Maud]

With the possibility of 5 litters of 14 babies per year from a single female, you might want to think about setting a few good traps and check them daily.

My 5 year old daughter and I caught 10 in a day in a single trap baited with grapes, when we were living in Somerset and she used to love watching them jump when the trap caught them.

[Basil]

We had a resident rat when we moved in here.  Called in the council rat man which cost £50.  He laid poison in all the places that were dog proof.  He warned us that usually they leave the house in a desperate to find water and die off premises.  If we were unlucky,  the rat would crawl into a cavity and die there, in which case, success would be announced by a smell we'd have to put up with for a week.
We were lucky.

[Kim]

We had three resident rats when we moved in here.  Barakta scared them off.

[Aunt Maud]

She'd be busy here, as rats are a proper problem in town at the moment.

[David Martin]

As others say, far too big for mice or bats.

[redshift]

Find a bruiser of a tomcat who's not scared of a fight?*




*Mine's busy killing rats at the moment...