Please help- Rat or mouse ?

[Newbie9]

Need to know what I?m dealing with ;(

[Secondsight]

Definitely Roland.

[Newbie9]

Are you sure ??? ;(

[Louisa]

Looks like a mouse to me. Unless it?s a juvenile rat.

Louisa.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Both pics look big for house mice and the tails are quite thick, so maybe young rats, as Louisa says. I have a trap like the one in your second pic and the mouse I caught looked much smaller in it.

[heartblock]

? Baby rat, I think mice have larger ears and smaller feet.

[JohnL]

Large Mouse if that's a mouse trap I think - The mice I have vary in size. If that's a baby rat I could have them too - but I've always only had mice.

I caught one like that today (it got caught alive by the tail and was squealing) - I was so close to throwing it over the balcony (probably illegal I'd think) - but freed it and it ended up running away along the balconies of my neighbours.

Never thought what to do when they're alive in a trap.

[malumbu]

Mouse. We get them bought in by the cat. Personally never use 'dead' traps as they only come in for warmth and food and simply better to block their entry points and don't leave food out. But if we were infested I'd probably think differently.

[JohnL]

By the way - If they're rats you (we :) ) need a bigger trap

[DulwichFox]

Looks like a Mouse..

Are there any droppings ??

Mouse droppings about the size of a grain of cooked rice and Black in colour.

Rat droppings about the size of an Almond Nut and also black.

Foxy

[adonirum]

Looks like it all hinges on the size of the turd, then.

[Louisa]

The turds don?t always give it away. I once found what I was expecting to be cat muck in the garden, and after further investigation Mr Louisa discovered a badger late one evening. Must be rare in London, never seen one myself before or since. The poo doesn?t always drop the guise of the perpetrator though.

Louisa.

[malumbu]

Baby badger then...

[healey]

malumbu Wrote:

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> Baby badger then...

Or a very small brown fox with short legs...

[fishbiscuits]

It's a rat. Ears and tail give it away.

[Blah Blah]

Yes definitely a young rat.

[dulwichrat]

Haha what a plonker! ?Oh hello, here?s a very suspicious thing that?s appeared with some bait in it, I?d better just stick my head in and find out if it?s a *SNAP!*? LOL

I?ll never understand why mice always go for that routine, but those big-eared losers do love it!

[Louisa]

In your experience dulwichrat, what sort of bait would tempt you to stick your head in one of those contraptions? I?m assuming the rats of Dulwich are quite picky.

Louisa.

[TheArtfulDogger]

Manuel: "I say to man in shop, 'Is rat.' He say, 'No, no, no. Is a special kind of hamster. Is filigree Siberian hamster.' Only one in shop. He make special price, only five pound."

[dulwichrat]

Louisa Wrote:

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> In your experience dulwichrat, what sort of bait

> would tempt you to stick your head in one of those

> contraptions? I?m assuming the rats of Dulwich are

> quite picky.

>

> Louisa.

You know what, the ?1 p?t? from Iceland was always a family favourite. Haven?t had so much as a sniff of the stuff since it turned into M&S. The M&S p?t? is over-engineered with parsley and posh black pepper, not for me at all.

[JohnL]

dulwichrat Wrote:

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> Haha what a plonker! ?Oh hello, here?s a very

> suspicious thing that?s appeared with some bait in

> it, I?d better just stick my head in and find out

> if it?s a *SNAP!*? LOL

>

> I?ll never understand why mice always go for that

> routine, but those big-eared losers do love it!

I used Maple Syrup the other day for one that I couldn't catch with peanut butter - I saw the mouse licking it's whiskers after licking it up before getting caught when it came back for more later.

[JohnL]

I'll get rid of the mouse infestation in our building one day - Two caught last night and I've only got 2 traps set at the moment.

Tempted to tie them up by their tails as a sort of serial mouse killer trophy rather than double bag and dispose.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Maybe you could borrow a cat? Mind you, then you have to deal with bloody and mutilated corpses, so traps possibly less stomach-churning first thing in the morning.

[JohnL]

Maybe the building could share one :) Like many blocks the building management have bait stations in shared areas and garage (which could mean the mice dying in the walls I guess)