Rat or Mouse?

After thinking our 16yr old cat had developed a rather healthy appetite or worms it seems we have a visitor in the house eating her food.

Managed to catch one of them last night, but is it a Rat or a Mouse?

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Rat.

Cat needs upgrading.

Mouse unless that trap’s huge.

Haha, she certainly does. Shes useless. Sleeps about 23.5hrs per day and does nothing. Shes a lady of leisure now.

Its one of the big traps. Think it measure 2-3″ across

It’s a mouse it has pointy nose.

And a hairy tail.

Rodent of the Roland kind. Younger people of the forum ask a 40 year old

That looks like a rat to me.

It’s a mouse it has pointy nose.

And a hairy tail.

Length of body, relatively small eyes, ears and tail, all indicate rat.

Difficult to judge scale from photo though.  A mouse will be 12-45g, rat more like 150-300g.  A pointed nose indicates a black rat, rather than a brown rat (blunt nose), so you can’t use that alone for identification.  A little bit of knowledge is a very dangerous thing.

Misread the title. Thought this thread was about Rastamouse. Is dissappoint.

I knew i should have got the ruler out to add scale to the picture this morning. Not sure the Mrs will be too keen to go routing through the bin to find it. I did however spot shes been hiding Beef Hoola Hoops from me. Words will be said

Yep, get your ruler out.

that’s a Siberian Hamster

(younger people of the forum ask a 40 year old)

^^^^ 😂😂😂 Que?

How about we meet in the middle and say a baby rat, you know, a small one

What bait did you use?

or goliath the mouse?

Brown rat (juvenile)

Ratus Splatus.

A pointed nose indicates a black rat, rather than a brown rat (blunt nose), so you can’t use that alone for identification.  A little bit of knowledge is a very dangerous thing.

It’s a very pale black.

A profile pic would be clearer for it’s snout though as the underneath is where the shape really counts, I can’t make out if the tail is hairy or not either.

Surprised there’s been no outrage at the barbaric use of traps to kill said vermin!

What is STW coming to?

Surprised there’s been no outrage at the barbaric use of traps to kill said vermin!

If only someone had photoshopped a pair of bombers onto that trap 🙁

vermin!

They’re just pigeons without wings, aren’t they.

A pointed nose indicates a black rat, rather than a brown rat (blunt nose), so you can’t use that alone for identification.

Especially when brown and black rats have pointed snouts, a blunt, rounded snout indicates a water vole, commonly and mistakenly called a water rat. Rats can and do swim, but it’s highly unlikely that unfortunate creature is a vole. Black rats are pretty uncommon, but brown rats are everywhere.

It’s a very pale black.

Black rats can look brown.

This one I think it is most likely a small brown rat.

Just used a bit of Iams senior cat food. I had a frantic call from the mrs at lunch. Apparently she heard the 2nd trap go off so I’ve a second specimen to measure/photograph later.

They’re just pigeons without wings, aren’t they.

😀 Still got it Perchy.

I’d say it’s a rat from that picture.

A fairly fed up one by the looks of it.

Looks like a rat, but aren’t rat tails far longer than mouse tails ?.Cant make out that length from the angle.

Should lend you my mums cat. Runt that grew into 10kg of death on four furry feet. Kills everything in sight and brings it home for her to study, aged 75. Was spotted carrying a magpie across the road with the mate dive bombing him. Tabby, says it all.

Rouse?

Actually looking again that is a pretty fat tail it has so yeah probably a rat.

 Kills everything in sight and brings it home for her to study, aged 75.

That’s not a bad age for a cat. Must be all the fresh meat.

Young Rat ..

Rat/Mouse  #2 with scale this time

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Young rat.

If that mouse was any bigger it’d be a baby elephant 🐘

You killed Basil 🙁

100% a rat.

Unless you’re a roadie and it’s a mouse that’s got into your ‘supplements’….

Call me the Pied Piper #3 of the day

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Rat/Mouse  #2 with scale this time

Jesus, you thought that could be a mouse!  It’s huge!  Lol scale certainly helps a bit here.

Rat , deffos . We get mice they are smaller , different tail and jug ears.