Rat or mouse? (again)

blade1

Looks like a small rat but not sure.
Btw that's a mouse trap in pic.

my3cents

From here in Waterford I can't see it down there in Cork, could you move it a bit closer please

blade1

my3cents wrote: »

From here in Waterford I can't see it down there in Cork, could you move it a bit closer please

Don't mind what it says under my username, I'm in Waterford!;)

PirateShampoo

Adult Mouse

taylor3

Baby Rat, look at the length of its tail. Because of my massive fear of them blighters I pay attention to the details to know the difference between the two. Hence why I have 2 cats in the event I ever had any of the vermin.

blade1

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Adult Mouse

taylor3 wrote: »

Baby Rat

That's cleared that up! :pac:
The reason I was thinking small rat was because the ears look small and the thick tail but I wouldn't be that sure about it.

my3cents

blade1 wrote: »

That's cleared that up! :pac:
The reason I was thinking small rat was because the ears look small and the thick tail but I wouldn't be that sure about it.

Honestly need a better picture.

It does look a bit rat like but really far too small even for a small rat. The full grown rats we get would have bigger bodies than that trap.

If you want to go by adding up the responses here then its

+1 for a mouse.

Google for pictures of mouse in a trap for comparison.

blade1

my3cents wrote: »

Honestly need a better picture.

It does look a bit rat like but really far too small even for a small rat. The full grown rats we get would have bigger bodies than that trap.

If you want to go by adding up the responses here then its

+1 for a mouse.

Google for pictures of mouse in a trap for comparison.

I have no other picture but it came in from next door.
Semi detached house, I could hear it scraping up in the attic in the corner between the two houses every night for about a month.
I said it to next door and they put up some mouse traps and told me they caught one mouse last week by their cupboard.

I put a mouse trap near my cupboards which hasn't been touched.
I put a mouse trap and a rat trap up in the attic.
There was peanut butter on the rat trap that was licked clean but caught nothing.
And the mouse trap? Well you see what was in that.

my3cents

I never bother with traps because you often can't keep up with checking them if their are too many rodents about.

Try the poison blocks and keep an eye out for how much of them (if any) gets eaten.

Drag00n79

Looks like a rat to me. The tail and longer pointed head.

blade1

my3cents wrote: »

I never bother with traps because you often can't keep up with checking them if their are too many rodents about.

Try the poison blocks and keep an eye out for how much of them (if any) gets eaten.

The reason I didn't use poison was for some reason ive always thought using poison,they may crawl in behind something and die and stink the place out.

denismc

I'm pretty sure that's a Siberian hamster!

ScouseMouse

blade1 wrote: »

The reason I didn't use poison was for some reason ive always thought using poison,they may crawl in behind something and die and stink the place out.

That is very true. They stink to high heaven and then you need pest control to put down a chemical to mask the smell.

fritzelly

Tail looks like its covered in hair so I vote mouse

blade1

denismc wrote: »

I'm pretty sure that's a Siberian hamster!

The real beast from the east!:pac:

my3cents

blade1 wrote: »

The reason I didn't use poison was for some reason ive always thought using poison,they may crawl in behind something and die and stink the place out.

In a modern house if they stay in they dry out and mummify very quickly with very little smell. In a damp garden shed they stink like mad.

I've worked where there have been dead rats stinking everyone out but at home here we've never had that problem.