Mouse experts?

[tdr1nka]

Rattus Rattus dear boy!

If you can't find any more check your neighbours house for subsidence.

 

[User482]

Deffo not a field mouse - I've had those in my garden, and they have a longer tail plus smaller head. Managed to capture them with a humane trap to release in the local park.

 

[punkypossum]

It might be a rat, but it's actually quite cute!

 

[Globalti]

4-5 inches makes that a young rat. A house mouse would be smaller and a field mouse is tiny and cute.

 

[Fnaar]

[corporal Jones] Don't panic! Don't panic! [corporal Jones]

 

[Andy in Sig]

Rattus Rattus dear boy!

If you can't find any more check your neighbours house for subsidence.

It looks like Rattus norvegicus to me as R. rattus is the native black rat which has been badly outcompeted by R. norvegicus.

 

[andyoxon]

Yes, rat I think.

Here's one of our field mice (by the rabbit hutch) - yes I did throw it some cheese.

Actually I caught a couple in two humane traps, to remove them - then thought, it was a waste of time - and released them again...

 

[wafflycat]

Definitely a young brown rat (rattus norvegicus) and there will be at least one nest close by. Rats carry *nasty* diseases, particularly Leptospirosis (Weil's disease).

 

[Fnaar]

One of my fave albums!

 

[Amanda P]

That's a young brown rat.

I'm a wildlife biologist. I've spent many happy years trapping, marking and radio-tracking small mammals of all varieties (among other thigns). That definitely ain't a mouse!

 

[rich p]

Thanks everyone. I'll pass it on to the neighbour (info not rat).

 

[tdr1nka]

Yer never not near a rat!

 

[Maz]

Ees hamster!

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

Definitely a young brown rat (rattus norvegicus) and there will be at least one nest close by. Rats carry *nasty* diseases, particularly Leptospirosis (Weil's disease).

Sound advice. Resist Gordon Brown's advice "Rats can be cooked baked in clay to avoid waste" and make sure that you don't touch it and dispose of it preferably by burning.

 

[tdr1nka]

Don't forget the rather jolly Viles disease!