Rodents without droppings? (couch, bathroom, table, moving)

[Hopes]

You should report the plum incident. I guarantee other people's plums are being violated too.

They won't know how widespread the problem is if people don't report the evidence they found.

[happehart]

You think someone sleep walking in the unit and ate the plum and peach :-)

[Hopes]

Maybe the peach ate the plum.

[convextech]

That mouse is feeling plum peachy.

[bronagh09]

I have mice in my house with no droppings at all i seen 2 last week and put talc powder on the floor and there is mice prints in the talc so yeah it is possible

[Angela Frazer]

we have something coming into our farm house at night and eating all my fruit, it climbs up onto the kitchen table and takes apples usually, however it has over the last two weeks taken oranges, lemon, lime, a nectarine and has eaten the inside of a coconut. we have laid traps of various descriptions and it has actually moved them. it is wise and avoids the traps, there is no evidence of droppings anywhere and it is really baffling us

[davebarnes]

No droppings?
Have you asked your Congresscritter about his/her whereabouts?

[gentlearts]

You could get a motion sensor camera.

[jacqueg]

Originally Posted by Angela Frazer

we have something coming into our farm house at night and eating all my fruit, it climbs up onto the kitchen table and takes apples usually, however it has over the last two weeks taken oranges, lemon, lime, a nectarine and has eaten the inside of a coconut. we have laid traps of various descriptions and it has actually moved them. it is wise and avoids the traps, there is no evidence of droppings anywhere and it is really baffling us

How do you think it is getting in?

Sounds like a raccoon, I can't think of anything else that would eat citrus - most animals can't get past the rind. But a raccoon can be as large as a dog...

[RubyJune]

Originally Posted by Coachgns

Can we have a rodent infestation with NO droppings found?
THe sole evidence is a plum that was sitting in a mesh bowl on the kitchen counter that has a hole in it, about half the plum seems eaten away. Two other plums in the bowl were untouched. There is absolutely no evidence of any droppings anywhere in the kitchen. I looked all around the bowl, all over the counter, on the floor, in every drawer, under the sink, and under the fridge. Nothing. I did find a couple of very small pieces of plum skin lying under the bowl. Inside the hole in the plum was some dried out skin.
One fruit fly flying around. Fruit flies can't eat that much plum!

Also, we have a Rat Terrier, so I'd think if there was a rodent in the apartment, she'd be alerted to it. She detected termites last year.

I'm 8 floors up, and a neighbor 2 floors below me had a similar problem, but it was bananas that were getting holes, They found droppings, and saw a mouse run across the floor. Their problem was supposedly eradicated a few weeks ago.

But - NO DROPPINGS? How can that be?

Is there something else that would cause a plum to have about half of it "eaten" away.

You bet!

I had never seen a single dropping until one night when I played peek-a-boo with a mouse behind my bookshelf. The next day I went on a rampage trying to find where they were getting in and I found the droppings in the pantry under a bag of potatoes. I had glue traps out after that and poison bait traps from an exterminator. Never caught a single mouse in the trap, would occasionally see droppings. Then I was dropping free for a whole month and thought they were finally gone. That is until one ran right past me.

I moved recently and when they took out the couches, the amount of droppings underneath the couch was horrifying. I'd never seen a single dropping or mouse in that room even, but they had clearly been partying it up under there.

TL'DR - they're there and so are the droppings. You just haven't found them yet.