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What kind of dead animal is this?

15 replies

bonzo77 · 01/10/2014 20:11

bonzocat was playing with this all morning. Photo to follow. Hard to give an idea of scale, but it's bigger than a mouse. And ears are a bit small. Is it a baby rat? I was going to post on the super furries topic, but thought it was a bit cruel as the posters there keep things like this as pets (I did once, admittedly).

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bonzo77 · 01/10/2014 20:13

Sorry for gore.

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candycrushhater · 01/10/2014 20:15

It looks like a wee vole to me Sad

CMOTDibbler · 01/10/2014 20:15

While I wait for the photo, my first cat used to bring me home gerbils. After the first two (where I was terrified it was some childs pet) it turned out that there was a colony under a neighbours shed.
Bless him, he used to bring me all sorts of things - gammon steaks, ham sarnies, a magpie..

CMOTDibbler · 01/10/2014 20:17

Thats a baby rat. Voles are more mousy.

We spend a lot of time contemplating what our 3 cats bring home

Queen0fFeckingEverything · 01/10/2014 20:20

Voles have smaller tails. That there is a rat.

Gileswithachainsaw · 01/10/2014 20:22

Rat

frazzledbutcalm · 01/10/2014 20:23

Definitely a rat ...

Fluffycloudland77 · 01/10/2014 20:25

Yep, baby rat.

Poor rat.

bonzo77 · 01/10/2014 20:26

thanks CMOT. It's funny how different cats get different prey. My previous male cat went for frogs and spiders, and the female mice. Current one seems to go for rats, though they've been bigger than this in the past. My 4 year old was very interested in today's offering, wanted to stroke it and see its bones Hmm.

candycrushhater (great username btw) would we get voles in an urban area? I'm end of terrace, our terrace backs onto another row of terraces, and the perpendicular streets are terraces too. Surrounded by fairly busy roads (and takeaway joints, hence the rats).

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CMOTDibbler · 01/10/2014 20:37

Our current 3 bring home the same things - one always eats them (inc a whole baby rabbit outside my glass office door while I was on a conf call), one likes to present them to us or the chickens, and the other never eats them and often forgets to kill them, leaving them to cat2

merlincat · 02/10/2014 14:40

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springlamb · 02/10/2014 14:43

Thank heavens it wasn't a vole.
They are under such pressure.
I have little ladders for the darlings all around my ditches.
Yay, it was a rat.

zzzzz · 02/10/2014 14:46

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Grinningcat · 02/10/2014 14:46

It's definitely a baby rat.

Our cat recently brought home nextdoor's gerbil, thankfully alive and unharmed! We rescued it and gave it back the next day. Apparently it and its pal had escaped. Their own cat had killed the other almost straight away. They were a bit amazed that the other survived completely unharmed.

ExitPursuedByABear · 02/10/2014 14:50

Rat.

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