Cat just brought this in - mouse or rat?

[MikeyT]

Heard a miaow from the kitchen which is normally the cat signalling another inch long mouse dropped in the middle of the kitchen floor - normally dead of course but then this thing greeted me - fking christ ...

I put an egg by it just to prove the size of it ... those boards in the kitchen are 6" wide as well -

Big mouse or small rat?

[thinfourth2]

Mutant chicken

[Big Al.]

IMHO small rat.

[Mojocvh]

Don't pick it up by the tail (Weil's) without gloves and wash your hands afterwords.

[Stu R]

Congratulations on your new pet rat.

[AndyAudi]

small rat

[MikeyT]

Bloody 'ell. Cheers guys!

Cat normally eats the little mice but i think even he thought this was a bit much!

[tr7v8]

Little rat, ours bought one in a few days ago about the same time. For some reason mine doesn't eat rats, mices & birds yes but not ratty.

[jmorgan]

We bag em using the bag as a glove and disinfect the area. Sometimes they are alive when they come in and then the fun starts.

Typical fare from ours

[blueg33]

jmorgan said:

We bag em using the bag as a glove and disinfect the area. Sometimes they are alive when they come in and then the fun starts.

^^^ we do the same. Biggest thing one of our Bengals has brought in was a Pheasant!

[thinfourth2]

blueg33 said:

jmorgan said:

We bag em using the bag as a glove and disinfect the area. Sometimes they are alive when they come in and then the fun starts.

^^^ we do the same. Biggest thing one of our Bengals has brought in was a Pheasant!

Yummy

[N Dentressangle]

Rat, I'd say. Pondered the same question myself a few months ago:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Cat's had another 3 or 4 since, but the rest he's eaten pretty much whole. Rat is obviously a tasty feast!

[MikeyT]

Cheers Norbert - a rat it is ...

He looks an evil beast though, your mog!

[moosepig]

I wish mine would learn to kill his prey rather than - as has happened no fewer than eight times in the last month - bringing them in unharmed, letting them go, watching them run around the house instead of recapturing them and then underlining his failings as a cat by leaping out of the way in fear whenever the mouse squeaks at him.

Me - he's brought another one in.
OH - what, alive again?
Me - yes. If only we had a cat...

Bless.

[mybrainhurts]

I trust you gave it an aspirin...?

[DavesFlaps]

No wonder it died if it's just laid that massive egg.

[eltawater]

Mice? Pfffffffft.



If only it were just mice. Imagine being woken up at ungodly hours of the morning to these scenes

[tribbles]

Just spent half an hour trying to find the pictures of this little beastie I found one morning.



I've never seen a bat anywhere near here.

I did also get a second one that day. Well, maybe an eighth...

[MikeyT]

Bloody 'ell!