Mouse or rat? Pic included

[mouseorrat]

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

[Crazybunnylady123]

It was a mouse. Poor little thing!
Traps are so cruel. Evil.

[mouseorrat]

@QueenOfOversharing yea it does look like that!

[mouseorrat]

@TheJoxter it does look a bit like that too ! I'm no further forward haha

[mouseorrat]

I'm tempted to go in the bin and get a better picture

[Lweji]

With a size reference. Preferably a ruler.

[Lweji]

And a good close up of the tail.

[BovaryX]

It seems sad to put a trap outside. I feel sorry for the little critter irrespective of what it is. His poor little 🐾

[hallohallohallo]

It looks like a Degu.

[vivacian]

So you are setting traps outside then?

[mouseorrat]

Here's the full picture without zoom, the trap is a mouse trap not a rat trap for size reference and I'll get them out the bin and take a better pic

[vivacian]

Why have you set a trap in your garden??

[BovaryX]

Dunno. Just seems sad. Poor little thing

[mouseorrat]

One was in my kitchen under the kick board and one was in my garden, the garden trap was a box thing and the indoor one was a normal trap

[mouseorrat]

One was found in the house but both the same creature what ever they are

[PhoneLock]

We kill a lot of mice indoors with traps but I wouldn't set one outside.

That's where mice are supposed to live.

[PenelopeFlintstone]

I've never heard of a degu but I've googled and they're very cute.

[vivacian]

FFS.

[QuarterPastMidnight]

I'm also thinking it looks like a squirrel. Definitely not a rat or mouse

[Knewmee]

Why have a trap in your garden? There will be creatures there - they don’t do any harm. I can understand the house, but honestly think the garden is just cruel & runs risk of catching hedgehogs & moles & field mice, shrews etc. Wildlife have enough to put up with!

[puds11]

It deffo looks like a degu but not sure why that would be in your garden.

[BovaryX]

Why have a trap in your garden? There will be creatures there - they don’t do any harm. I can understand the house, but honestly think the garden is just cruel & runs risk of catching hedgehogs & moles & field mice, shrews etc. Wildlife have enough to put up with!

I agree. OP, it seems unnecessarily cruel. Could you reconsider? It’s where lots of wildlife live. It’s pretty grim to do this

[StudentHelp]

Poor thing

[BreatheAndFocus]

Not a rat or mouse - the ears are wrong and the shape of the face and ‘muzzle’ looks wrong too.

I’m going with squirrel or degu. It’s very pretty whatever it is.

[Cryalot2]

The ears don't look like a rat.
A mouse tiny , so I think neither

[argueifnecessary]

Face looks like a chinchilla. Tail looks like a degu or a chinchilla. If there were two, then it makes sense being someone's pets as they are both social animals and should always be in pairs.
But it could also be that mouse, although I don't think the tail fits