Can anyone tell me what creature am I hunting?

It very well could be a gecko or other small lizard. We have lots of them here, and they’re completely harmless. Since they eat insects, they’re beneficial.

Pacific tree frog poop looks like that. If you are in Northern CA. it might be a tree frog.
A few years ago I thought I had a muse under my stove but no food bait was working. There were droppings on the range top every morning in the summer.
One night I woke up and went into the kitchen at about 2 a.m. and there was a tree frog sitting on top of the Havaheart trap on the stove. lol

Otherwise, most likely a mouse.

A “muse” under the stove? haha

Yes those muses can be a problem. :) I hate the ones that inspire people to create crap art and call it art.

Most likely a mouse.

Set up a few mouse traps where ever you see droppings. Bait with peanut butter or cheese and your answer will come in due time.

There’s an old saying about “When you hear hoofbeats, think horses and not zebras.” If you’re on the Serengeti, the order of those animals may be reversed.

So even though Pacific tree frogs undoubtedly can haunt some kitchens, I would also be thinking “mouse” here. It undoubtedly already has a source of food that is fine with it, which is one reason why your offerings have been refused so far (also, if your offerings aren’t in a sheltered area, along a wall or baseboard or behind / underneath an appliance, it’s not likely to come out into the open for them). A trap baited with peanut butter and placed along a known or suspected pathway should yield results, I think.

Only at night. Poop found behind the stove. Possibly a “Bat”. Poop similar to mice. it’s possible that this guy is living in the exhaust vent for the stove. Go take a peek.

@CWOTUS Ya never know….she could have an escaped Python under her stove. lol

It’s a mouse.

Sounds like mouse to me.

They were mice. I say were because I fried 5 so far and I haven’t seen traces of them anywhere in the kitchen except for when they step into the electric box. Three the first day within seconds of each other. One the next day and then 2 days of nothing and then 1 more. I plan to wipe out the whole family and then put some poison behind the wall and seal up the opening behind the stove. I assume they must be squeezing in where the gas line comes in. It is the only opening back there. All my walls and cabinets in the kitchen are intact and I actually saw one come out of the vent where the oven releases the heat onto the stove top. Nasty little creatures. I’m ok with them living. Just not with me. :(

You’ll want to seal up the opening on the outside if it’s possible. (Use some “Great Stuff” that you can get at Home Depot or Lowes. It’s a spray-on expanding foam that hardens to make a weatherproof seal.) If you don’t find and seal that opening, then mice will still be coming into the walls in the cold weather (because your walls are probably well insulated, and they’ll want to be on the warm side of that), and they will find another opening to more food.

Sometimes the food isn’t what you’d expect, as they will consume (for nourishment) cardboard, leather, cloth (when they don’t just use it to nest in) and anything made from animal products, including glue that’s found in all kinds of household products.

Good job so far, though.

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately I cannot find how they are getting in the house. I’ve looked outside and on walls that we share with our neighbors. I live in a town home between two homes and one of the homes is always vacant. I think they may have settled there and simply have found a way in through shared walls.

This should be something you bring up to the management. They need to get into that empty apartment and find and plug the hole and kill the mice. Is there furniture in there? If they’ve moved in there, it’s got to be a huge mess.

These are all privately owned. The owners next door come in every couple of months for a few days but they are retired and move between their children homes.

I am not too trusting to bring this up to the HOA. They may require us to go out and hire a professional exterminator and right now I can not do that. My husband has been laid off because of the government shut down. I feel the HOA thinks pretty much like the republicans.
I am thinking of letting them know. I think I have their old e-mail and may be able to send them a message to come and check on their home.