Mouse or rat? Pic included

[mouseorrat]

Mouse or rat? Found it in the garden, about the size of a hamster

[DingDongSchadenfreudeOnHigh]

It's all in the nipples

Is that you, Shadwell?

[VenusTiger]

That’s a house mouse - colourings underneath, tail, ears - I’m an expert as I have two cats and live by farms

[VenusTiger]

@Whengodwasarabbit omg! I’m glad I didn’t RTFT now!

Traps?! what about hedgehogs, birds, cats?

I’m astounded!

[JamieVardysHavingAParty]

DingDong

Is that you, Shadwell?

You win for the Good Omens joke.

[DingDongSchadenfreudeOnHigh]

Cheers, Vardy

[MerryBrexmasMyArse]

Absolutely agree with Whengodwasarabbit, outdoor traps are unnecessary and cruel. T Sometimes rats go through the end of my garden en route to the rhyne. They stay away from the house, I wouldn't dream of killing them.

[JamieVardysHavingAParty]

You can do English and rodent identification?

You're basically a poly- rat -h! Or should that be vole -ymath?

[DingDongSchadenfreudeOnHigh]

Vardy



Not sure if you have seen this thread Vardy

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3761766-To-have-kept-my-mouth-shut?msgid=92132616

The influence of a first in English is paramount.

[DerektheWonderdog]

I think it's a baby bear. 🐻

Poor things. I'm glad you e reconsidered leaving traps outside.

[PickAChew]

Agree about not trapping the garden. Rodents are welcome in my garden. They'll come to a snappy end in my kitchen, though.

[JamieVardysHavingAParty]

The influence of a first in English is paramount.
I... had not seen that thread. Yikes!

[poltergust]

Loved this thread. Laughing to myself about the fact anyone could suggest squirrel or mole whilst humming Orinoco flow and hoping Pete the pest-controller will do an AMA.

[lynfordthecrab]

With the nose and ears I’d say it was a shrew

[OJZJ]

Only read the first page so maybe identified but I would say a Vole, very pretty vaguely related to hamsters I think, but I may be wrong on that score, they can grow up to 22cm depending on species.
It's definatly not a rat it's tail is too thin and delicate and covered in fur, rats tails are long, thicker and scaly flesh like, if that makes sense

[bpirockin]

I'm on page 4 so far, but fascinated to know what it is. I have rats and various mice galore, and that doesn't look like any I've ever seen. Ears and tail are wrong. I'm going to carry on reading and hope there is a definitive answer somewhere in the next 12 pages!

[managedmis]

I smell a rat

[bpirockin]

Well that was entertaining, if not particularly educational. I see rats and mice daily (UK countryside), have had yellow-necked and field/wood mice both outside and in the house. I've never seen anything with that head/ear shape, and I really need an answer so I'm going to hazard a guess at the IVF clinic having messed up.

[PissedOffAndConfused]

Did you set traps in your garden with the intention to kill wildlife OP?

[PenelopeFlintstone]

She probably just wanted to kill mice and rats before they get inside. She’s already apologised and said she won’t do it anymore.

[Piggywaspushed]

dingdong my vicar definitely doesn't.! He has a very posh voice and has been heard to say 'golly gosh, darling, I do believe that's a small antelope'.

[DingDongSchadenfreudeOnHigh]

Its your vicar Derek Nimmo Piggy?

[Wheredidigowrongggggg]

That’s not a rat. Big mouse?

[DingDongSchadenfreudeOnHigh]

We had one who used the "off" word in the pulpit. In the sermon.

( . . . and people are starving to death and it's fucking disgusting when WE can do something about it! And you know what else is fucking disgusting? That you are all more shocked that I have said "fucking", than you are about people starving to death." Or words to that effect.)

There aren't many sermons that stick in your mind for the best part of 20 years, but that one has.

[Wheredidigowrongggggg]

Tail too thin. But whatever it is, don’t panic. Rats are everywhere and larger Innocuous these days.

[DingDongSchadenfreudeOnHigh]

"off" word - not off.

Even autocorrect doesn't like my language.