I found an empty plastic cooking oil bottle (waiting to be recycled) gnawed away into pieces in a box in the garage. The coke cans looked untouched though. The teeth marks looked like it was something ruthless. So I put some pieces of cheese there overnight, checked in the morning, they were still there - but then by night time, dissappeared (eaten during the day?? or early at night?)
It didn't look like insects because the pieces of cheese were at opposite corners of the garage (long distance). But I wonder if that's house mice cause I've never seen droppings (I should, right?) and they didn't feed at night. I've a few grains of rice left there and they didn't touch those (I thought mice like rice).
I do hear strange noise at night (within the walls) but I am not sure if that's related. Can someone based on the description determine if that's mice/ rats? If not, what else could it be (squirrels)? Can someone suggest a no-blood-no-dead-bodies (or good karma!) way to find out, something not involving a spy cam or me sitting their all day?
Thank you so much.