What kind of dead animal is this?

[bonzo77]

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).

Sorry for gore.

It looks like a wee vole to me

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..

Thats a baby rat. Voles are more mousy.

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

Voles have smaller tails. That there is a rat.

Rat

Definitely a rat ...

Yep, baby rat.

Poor rat.

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 .

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).

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

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.

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.

Rat.