Identify the Poop (pest)
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Murderer!
Works really well, when my mums house was unoccupied for a few months we spotted mouse droppings. Put down a few small squares of white paper with some of this on each one and took photographs. Went back a few days later and we could see that a lot had been taken. Over the space of the next couple of weeks, the amount taken reduced until there was no more gone and no more droppings.
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Probably mice, traps and peanut butter as stated above. You should quickly know what you're up against.
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Bait a rat trap with peanut butter and leave it up there. Mice are easy to kill with baited traps because they are very curious, whereas rats are neophobic so unless they are starving they will ignore a baited rat trap until it's been in place for several days. However, you might get lucky and kill a rat on the first night. Once you have killed one of them and know what you're dealing with it's best to block their access route ASAP if you can.
Putting down poison will only kill the current cohort of them (some rats are partially resistant too) and new ones will turn up in a couple of weeks after the first ones are dead. Also, they will go outside to die after being poisoned with anticoagulant rodenticides (it causes them to become thirsty) and will take a few days to die so a cat/barn owl/dog might kill them and eat them and get poisoned too.
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What you got there is a Communist living in your loft.
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Difficult to get sense of scale from that but it looks just like mouse poo
Works really well, when my mums house was unoccupied for a few months we spotted mouse droppings. Put down a few small squares of white paper with some of this on each one and took photographs. Went back a few days later and we could see that a lot had been taken. Over the space of the next couple of weeks, the amount taken reduced until there was no more gone and no more droppings.
Yes, but also no. That's the best brand (best gen2 anti-coagulant, strongest dose on public license in the UK). However, I used to use the grain and the wax blocks (in bait boxes), but they soon got sick of eating it. Then I tried their pasta sachets, and oh my word...
The critters go crazy for it. I went through 10 boxes in a week (outdoors), and then it stopped getting eaten. No more pests. The pasta sachets are oily and moist inside, and have strong attractants added. They're much more palatable than even stored grain or spilled wet foods laying around, and because they're moist rodents will eat them even when there's no water available, unlike with grain or blocks. They literally go crazy for the stuff. And then they die. 
OP, they look more mouse to me. Rat droppings are chunkier and more substantial looking. Either way, this bait will wipe them out no questions asked. It's cheap too.
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Mouse or rat.
Use traps, not poison- the stink of a dead mouse under a floorboard is not something you want to experience.
This victorian ratcatcher's memoir is a great read and full of useful tips (even if you can't sell live rats to fight in the ratting pit any more, due to victoriana do-gooders)- it's free on Gutenberg.
Use traps, not poison- the stink of a dead mouse under a floorboard is not something you want to experience.
This victorian ratcatcher's memoir is a great read and full of useful tips (even if you can't sell live rats to fight in the ratting pit any more, due to victoriana do-gooders)- it's free on Gutenberg.