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Is this a mouse or baby rat?

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  • 03-11-2016 9:32pm
    #1
    bobbysands81
    Registered Users Posts: 7,203 ✭✭✭


    I think it's a mouse but the wife thinks it's a baby rat.

    Anyone solve it?!

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    cloloco
    Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭cloloco


    bobbysands81 wrote: »
    I think it's a mouse but the wife thinks it's a baby rat.

    Anyone solve it?!

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    I am going to say rat baby :(


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    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,988 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    Tail would say rat to me.


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    scarbouro
    Registered Users Posts: 443 ✭✭scarbouro


    Tail would suggest a rat to me!


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    washman3
    Registered Users Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    Rat.....


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    #6
    bobbysands81
    Registered Users Posts: 7,203 ✭✭✭bobbysands81


    Thanks. F&%k.

    Is anyone actually 100% it's a rat?


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    Son0vagun
    Registered Users Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Son0vagun


    It's a mouse!

    It's winter time, why on earth would there be rats breeding at this time of the year? It's 100% mouse.


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    monty_python
    Registered Users Posts: 1,677 ✭✭✭monty_python


    I think mouse too.
    Rats have a bald tail


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    wpd
    Registered Users Posts: 492 ✭✭wpd


    adult mouse rats have bigger ears


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    Son0vagun
    Registered Users Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Son0vagun


    Plus the big rounded ears, it's a mouse!


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    SILVAMAN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭SILVAMAN


    Hard to tell...I've a feeling it's a large mouse, though I'm confused by the head shape.:confused:


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    MrDiyFan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭MrDiyFan


    I caught a few mice lately in the shed
    The tails were very long. I thought they were rats at first.


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    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,976 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    Son0vagun wrote: »
    It's a mouse!

    It's winter time, why on earth would there be rats breeding at this time of the year? It's 100% mouse.

    Em, you do know rats have no breeding season. They can breed any time of the year if conditions are right.


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    Atlantic Dawn
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    I just Googled "dead mouse" and it's actually very hard to tell, I did think from the tail it was 100% a rat but now I am unsure.


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    Son0vagun
    Registered Users Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Son0vagun


    Eddie B wrote: »
    Em, you do know rats have no breeding season. They can breed any time of the year if conditions are right.

    "If conditions are right", it's wintertime and conditions are too cold. In captivity maybe, but not in the wild.


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    10 Carrolls
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭10 Carrolls


    it's a mouse, definitely. Wake it up!


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    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Mouse.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    100% Mouse. And a Wood Mouse at that.


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    MrDiyFan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭MrDiyFan


    10 Carrolls wrote: »
    it's a mouse, definitely. Wake it up!

    I think it's dead. Hard to tell from the picture.


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    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,976 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    Son0vagun wrote: »
    "If conditions are right", it's wintertime and conditions are too cold. In captivity maybe, but not in the wild.

    Too cold outdoors maybe, but in a turf shed, attic etc, with an ample food supply, rats will breed. I caught an adult, and seven young rats in my niece's appartment attic, couple of years back. It was around Xmas. The whole appartment block had problems with rats, and she ended up moving out after Xmas, because there was nothing done about it.


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    #21
    Fakediamond
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭Fakediamond


    Cute lil mouse - RIP


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    #22
    jomalone14
    Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭jomalone14


    Mouse or rat.....I wouldn't be hanging around to find out....eeeeekkk!!!


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    #23
    njs030
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,030 ✭✭✭njs030


    Mouse!!


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    #24
    Kamili
    Registered Users Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Kamili


    Deffo a lil mouse.


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