What do mouse droppings look like?

I came home to see some black dots on my floor in my bathroom and in my sink (small and round like poppy seeds) I have no clue what it is....could it be mouse droppings? Do I have a mouse (aaahhhh!!)?What do mouse droppings look like?
Sweep it up, do the required heebee jeebee dance (to get the itchiness out of your system) and take a close look.


Mouse droppings typically look like black rice - and it usually has pointed ends (but not always).





If they are truely round (spherical), it sounds like you had some seeds fall off of something usually breads of some kind. Are you planting anything from seed? Ask the people you live with.





If you do in fact have mice, relax. There are ways of dealing with them:





The most passive and least painful for them is a gadget you plug into your wall - it shreeks so high you can't hear it but it'll drive the mice out. They usually cost 20 bucks, but they last for years.





The next option you have are sticky traps - you might be able to find a good deal on them at dollar stores.


Tip - grab a chocolate bar that has peanuts in it and pinch off a bit. Stick it in the middle of the trap and push down.


Put the traps against the wall and check the traps daily (although you'll probably hear them squeeking). Pick up the trap with tongs (to avoid getting bitten) and either set them free several miles from your house with veggie oil or stick the poor thing in a box and freeze it to death in your freezer. They hybernate and it'll probably just die in it's sleep.





Next are the typical mouse traps - avoid these if you have small children, they can hurt their fingers. Set them with chocolate and peanuts in the bait, and against the wall. You may have to kill the mice if the trap doesn't do it, and just toss the mice in the trash.





There are two more kinds of traps - poison or electric. Poison I suggest you avoid as they can end up killing birds you DO want around. Electric ones you can rent. Either way you're still tossing dead mice in the trash.





The last option after all of these is poison itself. Usually in pellet form, but you can fumigate your house if you choose to. Avoid these if you have other pets, kids or you're even minorly fond of any of the animals in your neighbourhood.





Please remember: poison doesn't stop with killing the mice - other animals eat the bodies / they rot and it gets into the water.What do mouse droppings look like?
It does seems like the droppings very in size but the mice around my rural area definitely have small rice like droppings, they more look like little seeds. Across the country I'm sure the size varies of the seed like droppings.

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Mouse droppings look almost like pieces of rice except a little thicker and dark brown-black.


Definitely not like a poppy seed. Not sure what that could be. The good news is, you probably do not have mice. The bad news, there is probably something else there.





Hope that helps.
What you've described sounds more like roach droppings...
Yes you do have a wild mouse in the house. You should get rid of it.
Black dots? Why do u ask?