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12-06-2009, 02:56 PM
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| | | Dead mouse - please help with ID!
The pics below show a mouse caught beneath our kitchen sink. It was caught in a 'humane' trap but (un)fortunately didn't survive through the night!
Does anyone know what exactly it is? House mouse or wood mouse? Not a little rat I hope! (The croc is average adult male size, for scale!)
Also, he/she looks a bit bedraggled... and is the range of colours normal? It looks very much like one I trapped and released a few weeks ago. I released it about a mile away - do mice have homing instincts?!!
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12-06-2009, 02:58 PM
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| | | Re: Dead mouse - please help with ID!
Looks like a baby rat to me..Its got balled feet and a long face..
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12-06-2009, 03:02 PM
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| | | Re: Dead mouse - please help with ID!
Looks like a woodmouse to me... but the colourings all wrong 
Btw, why is it wet??
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12-06-2009, 03:05 PM
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| | | Re: Dead mouse - please help with ID!
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Originally Posted by Cazzie  Looks like a woodmouse to me... but the colourings all wrong
Btw, why is it wet?? | Looks wet and decomposing..   |
12-06-2009, 03:05 PM
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| | | Re: Dead mouse - please help with ID!
I don't know why it's wet! (it does look wet doesn't it...)
I don't think there are any leaks below the sink. It might be more likely that he's come straight in from outside (I think there is a hole somewhere) but it was quite dry yesterday...!? |
12-06-2009, 03:07 PM
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| | | Re: Dead mouse - please help with ID!
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Originally Posted by Kayleigh Looks wet and decomposing.. | Yeah, quite nasty! But it had only been in there maybe 10 hours max. Perhaps it was pretty weak at first. Nasty!  |
13-06-2009, 07:08 PM
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| | | Re: Dead mouse - please help with ID!
Yes its a woodmouse. | | |
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