Feel sick. Rescued a mouse this morning...

[musicalfrog]

Off the cat. Unharmed so I took it by the tail so not to get bitten and moved it towards the woodpile. Then it released the skin from its tail and dropped to the floor and ran off.

Boak.

Lesson for the future: Do not pick up wild mice by the tail. I would rather get bitten than be left with empty mouse tail skin between my fingers again.

I didn't know mice could do that? That is pretty cool, despite it also being vomit-encouraging.

Holy fuck I didn't know that was an option!

Good work, mouse!

Wow amazing!

Don't scoop them up in your hands either. Even if they look sad and scared. They bite hard. Then it's off to a&e, feeling very stooopid for antibiotics and tetanus.

Only African spiny mice do this. What will have happened is a degloving injury where the skin is sheared off the bone. It does not heal.

Don't go rescuing mice. Your cat was trying to you a favour.

I think nighthawk is right, sounds like a degloving injury, poor thing.

Well many rodent species do this apparently including wood mice and yellow necked mice in this country. I wasn't under any illusions it would heal. Having read up about it through morbid curiosity, apparently it will chew the rest off later.