ID of Rodents

[Pigeon Paul]

I first thought mouse but its tail seems large for a mouse now to me so I am doubting my first thought!

Fully agree. The tail tells me there are both rats!

[Berettacocker]

Been killing a few rats in the partridge pens, last couple of weekends under straw bales. Killed a fair few old and young, and as Rodney Trotter would say, " it's a RAT! "

[fenboy]

Seems some of us need to practice our rodent identification skills

A picture of JDogs nephew out shooting with him today .

 

 

[Guest]

Seems some of us need to practice our rodent identification skills

A picture of JDogs nephew out shooting with him today .

 

 

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I think they are most defiantly RATS

[JDog]

Good one Fenboy. However I am not changing my Forum name yet as I truly believe that the second picture shows a house mouse. Perhaps someone cleverer than I in the posting of links stakes puts up pictures of house mice.

[fenboy]

Good one Fenboy. However I am not changing my Forum name yet as I truly believe that the second picture shows a house mouse. Perhaps someone cleverer than I in the posting of links stakes puts up pictures of house mice.

 

I hope you are right JDog as I said mouse also.

[fenboy]

House mouse

 

 

young brown rat

 

[shoot and be safe]

House mouse.

 

Looking at the images on Google it appears that the house mouse has a light under side.

[yickdaz]

Seems some of us need to practice our rodent identification skills

A picture of JDogs nephew out shooting with him today .

 

 

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chimpanzee ?

[Berettacocker]

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House mouse.

Looking at the images on Google it appears that the house mouse has a light under side.

that's a wood mouse !

[shoot and be safe]

that's a wood mouse !

I have a wooden house

[lurchers]

Good one Fenboy. However I am not changing my Forum name yet as I truly believe that the second picture shows a house mouse. Perhaps someone cleverer than I in the posting of links stakes puts up pictures of house mice.

Believe me ive been doing it 34yrs and I tell you now you will not get mice eating in the same place at the same time as rats.if I don't know anything like this after that long I think I should be calling it a day😃😃

[lurchers]

Look at the size of the head of the baby one it has rat wrote all over it

Edited February 18, 2015 by lurchers

[sako751sg]

I would say both rats but can see why some are convinced the juve is a hoose moose.Think the tail is too short but apart from that it is pretty hard to distinguish.

[Berettacocker]

Just get her a couple of these...work a treat.. birds can feed in peace.

 

I shouldn't worry too much about Weils unless she likes to lick the paving slabs or bird table there's not much risk of contracting it.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pestbye-Rat-Zinger-Electronic-Killer-Electric-Trap-Zapper-Rodent-Battery-Powered-/230916804796?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item35c3b6d0bc

what about a cut on your finger, or touching urine and putting your finger in your mouth/ eating etc. a friend taking down pens, moving feeders/ drinkers was close to death with weils after rolling fags with rats pee on his fingers! So don't be blasé about rats!

[TaxiDriver]

chimpanzee ?

Was it the lack of tail that gave it away ??

[fenboy]

what about a cut on your finger, or touching urine and putting your finger in your mouth/ eating etc. a friend taking down pens, moving feeders/ drinkers was close to death with weils after rolling fags with rats pee on his fingers! So don't be blasé about rats!

 

I quite agree , it only needs a small cut etc or as you say eating without washing your hands etc , it can be fatal and can be easily mis diagnosed.

[sako751sg]

what about a cut on your finger, or touching urine and putting your finger in your mouth/ eating etc. a friend taking down pens, moving feeders/ drinkers was close to death with weils after rolling fags with rats pee on his fingers! So don't be blasé about rats!

I caught weils about 12 years ago and it was horrendous.Wouldnt go to hospital and only got the quack up to the hoose but after about a week they rushed me in and straight on to the drip.Luckily the fella that saw me within an hour sussed it pretty much straight away and i couldnt fault them.Very lucky compared to some folks that have it though.

[Mentalmac]

One of our technicians when I was a pest control surveyor got it even tough he wore gloves... Why?

Because he used same PDA to mark what he'd found with the gloves on and then took gloves off and wrote on PDA that he was having lunch... Etc...

[lurchers]

They say 50% of rats carry weils disease but you would have to get it checked to find out if it has or not.

[vampire]

Its two rats,tail gives it away on young un if nothing else does.

[aga man]

A good friend of mine almost died from weils disease a couple of years ago. He is a drainage/jetting operative and despite doing it many years and always wearing PPE etc the doctors believe he was splashed in the eye

 

Just another good reason to kill rats whenever possible.

 

For the record i believe the second picture is a mouse but with no sense of scale it is difficult to gauge it's size.

[yickdaz]

Was it the lack of tail that gave it away ??

yeah and the huge smile

[loriusgarrulus]

Both rats. Face is too chubby on second one for a mouse of that size. Also the tail is thick and short in comparison to the body size. Slight fluffiness of the coat all says baby rat. I used to breed fancy rats years ago. The domestic varieties make good intelligent pets.

[Dougy]

30.06 body shoot while there feeding, then send off bits in a jiffy bag to forensics to check dna, but I'm sure there both rats.