Tape up some sheet plastic over the ceiling over your bed to verify it’s coming from the ceiling or via other route?
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@ShenanAnna yes, exactly!
@imbassetma this is a good idea, tomorrow I can give it a try, thank you !
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Hmm, dogs “not allowed” doesn’t mean they do stuff when you aren’t looking.
My well behaved, never seen on the kitchen counter, cats have managed to hide their law breaking behavior for two years until they got careless and were caught in the act.
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based on size of dropping i’m guessing an insect or larval form (caterpillar) of an insect.
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Are they always spherical like that? Have you ever found any more ooblong ones? When you find them, what is their placement like? Scattered in an area or concentrated in a specific spot?
I second putting a sheet or tarp up by the beams and seeing if it’s truly coming from the ceiling.
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I agree that i don’t think it looks like animal poop
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This is why we have motion sensing sprayers for our kitchen counters. Trust but verify!
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Your cats are very smart 
No, dogs really don’t climb upstairs, old doggo can’t phisically and the young one is scared of our stairs (I never guessed why, she climbs every other stair). Anyway to avoid the risk that the old one tries and falls we put a gate so they really don’t come up
They are always like that and they are in a small area, let’s say 3 inches of diameter, but not all stuck together, not in a pile
Very interesting. I’ve seen bed bug poop (a place I worked had them in the CHAIRS… eww) and it’s about that size, but more rust colored.
It looks like mouse poop to me
The things I Google🤢
https://a-z-animals.com/blog/mouse-poop-vs-bat-poop-what-are-key-differences/
Have at it, enjoy the pictures😊
Here’s a tidbit
“ If you’re trying to tell the difference between mouse and bat droppings, you need to begin by pressing on them (using gloves, of course).
Bat droppings will crumble into a powder because they are solely made up of insects, whereas mouse droppings are pasty when fresh and grow harder as they dry out.
Oh, ew, spider droppings exist🤮
A – House Mouse / Field Mouse
B – Roof Rat
C – Norway Rat
D – CockRoach
E – Termites
F – Bed Bug
G – Bat
H – Snake
I – Raccoon
K – Possum
L – Skunk
M – Spider
O – Squirrel
P – Bee/Wasp
Source:
https://www.abeepestpro.com/differences-types-of-pest-droppings-poop.htm
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Here is mouse poop from last nite - field mouse variety as I live trapped them overnight
Same turd after I pressed down on it, although it wasn’t hard
I’m amazed, you all are a huge source of knowledge! So, according to the sites suggested by @Chall (I saved the picture, really helpful!) I would say not a mouse and neither a bat, the droppings are too round, they don’t shine when fresh, they don’t crumble into a powder. They are quite squishy, not hard ad the one posted by @swmorse. According to the picture they look more like cockroach (never seen one in the house but maybe in the roof?) or spider? I would lean towards an insect anyway…if we had bites I would think bedbugs (there is also a massive infestation in Europe at present) but again we never got bitten. I’ll try and tape a plastic sheet on the ceiling ad suggested and see if droppings fall from the ceiling or not. I also ordered a camera and as soon as it arrives I’ll set it on the bed
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There is a group on Facebook, Animal Scat Identification.
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I never realized that snakes poop!
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Everything poops. In one form or another.
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There’s even a book about it
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Soooo over the weekend I cleaned deeply the bedroom and I found a deposit of those little things under my night table. I cleaned all that mess and as @paintedpennypony suggested I believe that is not poop but tiny larvae/insect. I saved a couple of samples to bring to a friend who owns a microscope but looking well with a magnifying glass it seems they can be small insects. So far I didn’t find any more on the bed, let’s hope we got rid of them, whatever they are!
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