Mouse or Baby Rat.

[laymanuk]

Caught two of these in my attic recently.

I think its a mouse but I want to rule out a small / baby rat as a possibility.

Is this a mouse or a rat?

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• laymanuk
• 7 Oct 2012
• 1

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• laymanuk
• 7 Oct 2012
• 1

We also found what looks like it might be a rat dropping in our bathroom. Its about 1cm long and irregularly shaped but tapered at both ends. Black and very soft and squidgy. Smells strongly of poo. I would have taken a photo but my other half disposed of it before I had a chance to. [/img]

 

[Stivino]

I'd say they were mice.
http://tinyurl.com/9ptketn

 

[gregers]

dunno,
http://www.bigfootwildlifecontrol.com/rat.html

 

[JohnD]

it would be easier if you put a 50p piece in the photo to give scale. You did not mention the animal size.

the dropping sounds rat-like. mouse droppings are no bigger than a match-head, and lots of them.

 

[xr4x4]

I'd say that was a rat, mice are tiny.

That looks like a big mouse..!

 

[cajar]

Rats have bigger feet and tails relative to the size of their bodies. Those look like large mice.

edit: just had another look, 100% sure they are mice.

 

[JohnD]

but what about those droppings?

 

[ntb]

Adult mice. Most of the mice that people encounter (most of the mouse population) are juveniles and therefore much smaller. The reason is that mice breed so prolifically because relatively few actually reach it to adulthood.

Edited to add, mice have thin tails, rats have thick tails.