Please identify this rodent for me

[Hullabaloo9]

OK my cat has been bringing in these rodents the last few days. Some are dead when I find them, some I rescue and put outside but one has escaped both me and cat. It is currently living in the cavity behind all my kitchen cupboards and popping up randomly in different drawers. I've emptied my kitchen and am now unsure what to do. Suggestions welcome!

Basically I would feel a lot happier if I'm dealing with a mouse or vole rather that (as I suspect) a baby rat. The picture is of one of the dead ones.

@Cookiecrumble22

Not a great picture maybe can tell by the tail. My dog killed this today. Mouse or baby rat ?

looks like a mouse

@Newfluff

snap traps should be banned its disgusting what some people do to animals

No what should be banned are people who can not face reality. If you abandon a rodent miles from home it will have a slow and drawn out death, they live in family groups, they don't fend well on their own. Plus if a cat has bitten it (likely) the wound will become infected and the mouse will die. Rodents have a shitty hand in life, a quick snap is much kinder. (See also poison, a way to make animals die slowly but out of sight)

poison is bloody disgusting too and that fly paper stuff.

100% a rat

@Sueaxlbrick

I have pet rats and pet mice. I also have a cat that likes to bring in dead (and alive) wild mice and this looks like a wood mouse to me.

I am going with this. Having had both rats and mice as pets, and a garden with both. It is hard to tell though.

Looks like every one of the thousands of mice my cats have caught.

Mouse

Rat. I have had both and that one's a rat.
Which is bad news, because rats are very very very hard to catch in the humane traps, whereas mice are easy. The first time we had mice, I (stupidly) let them out in the garden and they just kept coming back. And why wouldn't they? Chocolate every night and safety from the cat, and release in the morning! I had to let them out a bit farther away to solve the problem.
The rat humane trap was completely useless because rats are neophobic, apparently. That's what the ratkiller told us, in the end...

Water vole

Oh I meant the original poster's rodent.

Looks like a giraffe to me 🤷‍♀️

@ClawedButler

Oh, I can identify that rodent. That's Jim. Nice fella, but sh*ts in ladies' handbags sometimes.

😂

@givethatbabyaname

Looks like a giraffe to me 🤷‍♀️

Aren't giraffes a bit more orangey?

Baby rat! The cheapest way to get rid of one in your house is the horrible sticky traps on Amazon surround area where is hiding smear some peanut butter on opposite side to entice it. Then when caught dispatch it. Then worm your cat. I have used them as the poisons they just take them but don’t die. A friend of mine spends a fortune with pest companies on rodents her cat brings home alive! I don’t have money so deal with myself.

@Bytrgrewd totally forgot about that bat!!!

Wasn’t it some tropical island university mascot or something that a Mumsnetter had about ten years ago?

Or have I just made that up?

It looks like the adult versions of the DTwatCat's tithe that he reluctantly pays each Autumn. Reluctantly as he doesn't get a second chance after he gets told 'Well done. Now you can take that poor bloody thing right back out where you got it from' - if he hasn't picked it up and legged it straight back outside immediately, it's going to have a burial at bin.

The babies tend to be a bit rubbery and floppy after he's gummed them to death and flung them round the garden for a couple of hours, but the adults never seem to stay around for long - not sure whether he's decided the bigger ones are worth eating or whether the local crows/shitehawks are taking advantage.

Anyhow, about the right size to fit in your triple gloved hand as you consign the corpse to the wheelie bin, quite cute face, pale tummy? Wood/Field Mouse.

[quote Stath]@Bytrgrewd totally forgot about that bat!!!

Wasn’t it some tropical island university mascot or something that a Mumsnetter had about ten years ago?

Or have I just made that up? [/quote]
I can’t actually remember the back story but in my head it was Soudragon. The good old days 😆

Argh. Soupdragon

Could be a shrew

Oxborn shrews are tiny with long pointy noses, dainty things. I would love to tell the op it’s a shrew but it’s a young rat.

@Oxborn

Could be a shrew

Shrews are teeny tiny, and super cute with long noses! Without a close up of the tail it's hard to know if mouse or ratty. Either way both aren't good house companions, and need to be gone.

Snap trap out of puss cat’s reach. I had one which caused so much destruction, it was unreal. Then some kept coming in the shed. Traps are horrible, but I couldn’t have the constant damage.

Omg the balls on Ratmam's rat!

Actually screaming at this threat😂😂😂

There's a Facebook group called something like "rat ball appreciation page". People post photos of their pet rats' dangly bits

Here to find out which bait the mouse/rat prefers