Mouse or rat? Pic included

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

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

@QueenOfOversharing yea it does look like that!

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

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

With a size reference. Preferably a ruler.

And a good close up of the tail.

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

It looks like a Degu.

So you are setting traps outside then?

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

Why have you set a trap in your garden??

Dunno. Just seems sad. Poor little thing

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

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

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

That's where mice are supposed to live.

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

FFS.

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

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!

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

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

Poor thing

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.

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

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