Yet Another Cycling Forum
Random Musings => Miscellany => Where The Wild Things Are => Topic started by: FatBloke on 16 August, 2009, 10:09:37 am
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The cat had a successful night's hunting and left her spoils on the doorstep.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2472/3825921656_4e653c1103.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2587/3825921618_675ca4d4c4.jpg)
But is it a very big mouse or a baby rat? I'm thinking it's a baby rat as the head and feet are large and so is it's nose whereas a mouseseses features tend to be more delicate.
What say you?
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Young rat.
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Ratus needs tokens to pay the Ferryman.
(http://i578.photobucket.com/albums/ss226/SgtBikeo/3825921618_675ca4d4c4.jpg)
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Young rat. Mice are really quite little!
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Thread resurrection time.
So, is this a rat or a mouse? I suspect it's a young rat. Found a hole in the ground in an old veg patch so I investigated with the aid of a garden fork. Half a dozen or so of these little blighters disappeared in all directions. Body length about 6cm.
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/nicknacknick/rat_zpsktxpymwh.jpg) (http://s7.photobucket.com/user/nicknacknick/media/rat_zpsktxpymwh.jpg.html)
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I think that's a full-size house mouse.
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Would it be usual to find a nest of half a dozen house mice underground in the garden?
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I'm fairly sure partner had such a tribe eating the cabling under his observatory.
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'ees a hamster!
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'ees a hamster!
Basiiiil
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Rat.
Compare to pictures on google.
(http://www.azdeadpestcontrol.com.au/housemouse.jpg)
House mouse
(http://www.hainaultforest.co.uk/Rat4.JPG)
Rat.
The black ends of its fur, and the thicker tail are, in my view, pretty clear in your picture, Nicknack.
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'Twas what I thought. Cheers.
Whatever they were, they haven't got a home any more.
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Would it be usual to find a nest of half a dozen house mice underground in the garden?
It wouldn't be that unusual, or in compost heaps. However the "rats" may be right!
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I think I have mentioned this before, but it's worth the retelling.
When he retired from teaching my dad expanded his poultry hobby into a small business, from a dozen hens in the garden just to keep the family in eggs to up to 200 hens in 2 houses. There was, of course, a lot of chicken shit and quite a store of food for them. One afternoon he noticed a rat disappear into a hole in a dung heap. He looked down the hole and could see a pair of eyes looking back at him. He called me (I think I was on holiday from college) and we alerted the dog. I gathered my cricket bat on the way and he turned the dung heap over with his fork. In the next half-hour the dog and I had killed 21 rats and I reckon that at least as many had escaped.
I have a photograph somewhere of me in cricket whites, leaning on my bat, with a dog and 21 dead rats spread out in front of us.
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Hunting with dogs? I guess rats don't have nice fluffy tails. :demon:
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I used to catch rabbits using a ferret.