Edit: Tis a mouse, didn’t take into account how small shrews are too.
Sorry if this image is disturbing to anyone here. Just wondering if I am looking at mice, rats or a mix of both?
Also how can they be getting into the attic of a 2 storey house?
Many thanks
Mouse and a shrew.
Left is a shrew, right is likely a house mouse going on the size
Shrew and Mouse. Only seen a shrew for the first time in my 40 plus years this year. Actually quite cute little creatures.
Shrew and a mouse. A rat would be much bigger than the shrew
You got a couple of false widows there, by my reckoning.
We’ve caught around 10 mice in our house, can’t cope anymore like they’re stressing me out 😐
Left is a shrew and right is a mouse.
Definitely a shrew, we have an influx of them in the garden since last summer. They never got into the house thank god.
Poor shrews never usually venture indoors but ol house mice get it any hole they could be climbing the gutter check for holes during the day and if it’s a attached house check there is no holes between the two, I had mice in my house till I found a hole that led to my neighbours filthy ass house and sealed it up and poof no more mice
Mrat
Shrew and mouse.
A top tip: cats *love* shrews.
One is a Shrew and the other one is a mouse going by it’s size compared to the Shrew. Also as far as I know Shrews are protected under the wildlife act.
Do what we done, start feeding a stray cat and eventually it kinda made our yard home. Haven’t seen a mouse, rat or shrew since. Took a while because the cat was feral at first but he finally gou used to us and has stuck around.
Shrew (L) and Mouse (R)
We need a banana for scale, always remember the BANANA.
Left is a Shrew. And the right judging by the size of its body, and its ears is a mouse.
No thankyou, ive eaten
Fat mice
Those looks likes meeces
Shrew on the left, mouse in the right. Be careful, I got banned from this sub for a week once for posting a pic of a rat I’d trapped in my house. Apparently we’re supposed to live in harmony with them like Cinderella or something.
Mouse and shrew. The eara are too rounded for a rat
Shrew and mouse
Left is defo a pygmy shrew. Right is a mouse
Mouse
Shrew on left, mouse on right. Shrew has a longer nose than a mouse or rat, mouse has a rounder ear than a rat.
Neither are rats. You would know without a doubt if you saw a rat, they are quite large.
No thanks, might just get a sambo for lunch.
Careful! You can actually get in legal trouble for killing shrew in Ireland. (They are a protected species)
Beyond the Identification of shrew and mouse, for the love of your own home, dont put poison out. They’ll eat it and then hide themselves away inside your walls to die and the smell is awful.
And if they’re not living inside your house then you may just just poison them only for them to be eaten by local owls
Shrew left, mouse right
Looks like a shrew and a mouse. This looks like the non-native shrew and they are a real pain if you have them in the house.
I had them a few years ago and couldn’t kill them fast enough. Eventually a small rat made its way into the house and killed all the shrews before I killed him! I still wince. They were in the subfloor so don’t know how they got in. Likely through a small crack somewhere.
Fun fact cats kill theme but don’t like to eat them (they have a mild bitter loosen) so leave them around. That’s what you see them on footpaths etc.
Poor little shrew. They’re stupid things. You’ll be walking around minding your own business when one of them yelps and runs. If they’d just stayed quiet you wouldn’t have known they were there.
Same taste
Shrew for reference
Mole?
Biscuit…or cake?
Shrew and field mouse .. cute
On your right – a rat.
On your left – a shrew.
“If a mouse goes outside does it become a rat, and if a rat is in the house, is it a mouse? I ain’t seen no mouse outside. That’s what I’m sayin’. That’s because it’s a rat, fool!”
Mouse and shrew. Rats are way bigger than that.
I had a shrew in my kitchen. Little bastard ate into loads of electrical cables. He kept setting the alarm off every time he ran past the exposed wires. I had to get the alarm rewired in the back of the kitchen. I got him with poison, didn’t know it was a shrew until I found the body under the kitchen units a few days later. That was over 20 years ago so I think I’m safe with statute of limitations by now.
I am guessing Fianna Fail on the left?
Shrewd and right is a brown rat
That’s a pigmy shrew and a house mouse.
A young rat looks similar to a house mouse, but with a thicker tail.
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Am gonna say shrew and a rat.
Edit: Tis a mouse, didn’t take into account how small shrews are too.
Sorry if this image is disturbing to anyone here. Just wondering if I am looking at mice, rats or a mix of both?
Also how can they be getting into the attic of a 2 storey house?
Many thanks
Mouse and a shrew.
Left is a shrew, right is likely a house mouse going on the size
Shrew and Mouse. Only seen a shrew for the first time in my 40 plus years this year. Actually quite cute little creatures.
Shrew and a mouse. A rat would be much bigger than the shrew
You got a couple of false widows there, by my reckoning.
We’ve caught around 10 mice in our house, can’t cope anymore like they’re stressing me out 😐
Left is a shrew and right is a mouse.
Definitely a shrew, we have an influx of them in the garden since last summer. They never got into the house thank god.
Poor shrews never usually venture indoors but ol house mice get it any hole they could be climbing the gutter check for holes during the day and if it’s a attached house check there is no holes between the two, I had mice in my house till I found a hole that led to my neighbours filthy ass house and sealed it up and poof no more mice
Mrat
Shrew and mouse.
A top tip: cats *love* shrews.
One is a Shrew and the other one is a mouse going by it’s size compared to the Shrew. Also as far as I know Shrews are protected under the wildlife act.
Do what we done, start feeding a stray cat and eventually it kinda made our yard home. Haven’t seen a mouse, rat or shrew since. Took a while because the cat was feral at first but he finally gou used to us and has stuck around.
Shrew (L) and Mouse (R)
We need a banana for scale, always remember the BANANA.
Left is a Shrew. And the right judging by the size of its body, and its ears is a mouse.
No thankyou, ive eaten
Fat mice
Those looks likes meeces
Shrew on the left, mouse in the right. Be careful, I got banned from this sub for a week once for posting a pic of a rat I’d trapped in my house. Apparently we’re supposed to live in harmony with them like Cinderella or something.
Mouse and shrew. The eara are too rounded for a rat
Shrew and mouse
Left is defo a pygmy shrew. Right is a mouse
Mouse
Shrew on left, mouse on right. Shrew has a longer nose than a mouse or rat, mouse has a rounder ear than a rat.
Neither are rats. You would know without a doubt if you saw a rat, they are quite large.
No thanks, might just get a sambo for lunch.
Careful! You can actually get in legal trouble for killing shrew in Ireland. (They are a protected species)
Beyond the Identification of shrew and mouse, for the love of your own home, dont put poison out. They’ll eat it and then hide themselves away inside your walls to die and the smell is awful.
And if they’re not living inside your house then you may just just poison them only for them to be eaten by local owls
Shrew left, mouse right
Looks like a shrew and a mouse. This looks like the non-native shrew and they are a real pain if you have them in the house.
https://www.rentokil.ie/mice/rats-vs-mice/
I had them a few years ago and couldn’t kill them fast enough. Eventually a small rat made its way into the house and killed all the shrews before I killed him! I still wince. They were in the subfloor so don’t know how they got in. Likely through a small crack somewhere.
https://www.rentokil.ie/mice/rats-vs-mice/
Fun fact cats kill theme but don’t like to eat them (they have a mild bitter loosen) so leave them around. That’s what you see them on footpaths etc.
Poor little shrew. They’re stupid things. You’ll be walking around minding your own business when one of them yelps and runs. If they’d just stayed quiet you wouldn’t have known they were there.
Same taste
Shrew for reference
Mole?
Biscuit…or cake?
Shrew and field mouse .. cute
On your right – a rat.
On your left – a shrew.
“If a mouse goes outside does it become a rat, and if a rat is in the house, is it a mouse? I ain’t seen no mouse outside. That’s what I’m sayin’. That’s because it’s a rat, fool!”
Mouse and shrew. Rats are way bigger than that.
I had a shrew in my kitchen. Little bastard ate into loads of electrical cables. He kept setting the alarm off every time he ran past the exposed wires. I had to get the alarm rewired in the back of the kitchen. I got him with poison, didn’t know it was a shrew until I found the body under the kitchen units a few days later. That was over 20 years ago so I think I’m safe with statute of limitations by now.
I am guessing Fianna Fail on the left?
Shrewd and right is a brown rat
That’s a pigmy shrew and a house mouse.
A young rat looks similar to a house mouse, but with a thicker tail.
Have had all 3 this year.