Something is making nests in our cars

[u/AelinGalathynius01]

Some kind of animal (assuming a rodent) is making our garage, and our cars, its home. It keeps dragging cracked corn, bird seed, moss, pheasant feathers (dad is a hunter), and random garbage items into our vehicles. We thought it was a mouse but found some scat today and it’s clearly not mouse poop. Any ideas what this could be?

We live in the northeast US.

[u/Bird4416]

Rodent of some sort. Little bastards chewed the insulation off the underside of my hood and stuffed it into the air filter on my truck. They can cause a lot of damage.

[u/razer742 → u/[deleted]]

Squirrel poo should be a bit bigger.

[u/razer742]

Rats or mice most likely based on the scat. Rat droppings tend to be blunt on the ends where mouse droppings are more tapered. I cant tell based on the picture though.

[u/AelinGalathynius01 → u/razer742]

So we unfortunately get mice inside the house sometimes so typically we know if it’s mouse droppings. These are quite a bit larger than those unless maybe it’s a different species of mouse, which is a possibility. These are on top of a Honda odyssey engine…idk if that’s useful though haha

[u/razer742 → u/AelinGalathynius01]

Im leaning to rats probably. Tomcat makes some good solutions to your problem. Tractor supply or amazon

[u/KerouacsGirlfriend → u/AelinGalathynius01]

I had mice absolutely wreck a car I had in storage. Pulled out seat stuffing, nested & peed in the vents and chewed through so much wiring. Poops were smaller than these tho as you said. Rats may be correct.

Whatever these are I hope you can get ‘em out.

Edit: Google up images of chipmunk scat, this looks kinda like chipmunk poop now that I’m looking around the internets.