Friend's cat brought this home: what is it?

[digi355]

My friend's cat left this on his door mat. It looks like a mouse / rat? It's really small, baby / mouse sized. I don't know anything about what either type of baby looks like though? It looks more like a rat to me. Does anyone know what it is?

http://s3.postimg.org/jbl6oqxgf/photo_1.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/jbl6oqxgf/)

[eglove]

Field mouse :dunno:

[digi355]

Originally posted by eglove
Field mouse :dunno:

Good.... It looked a lot like a rat to me.

[Tik-Tok]

Field mouse covered in cat slobber.

[dj_rice]

Looks like dinner to me?

[LollerBrader]

Originally posted by digi355
My friend's cat left this on his door mat. It looks like a mouse / rat? It's really small, baby / mouse sized. I don't know anything about what either type of baby looks like though? It looks more like a rat to me. Does anyone know what it is?


It does look rather ratlike, doesn't it.

Hard to tell, given the slobber factor.

Size can be a guide. If it's much bigger than a toonie, I'd say rat. Mice are pretty fricking small.

[DeeK]

Originally posted by dj_rice
Looks like dinner to me?

damn, beat me to it.

[digi355]

Originally posted by LollerBrader


It does look rather ratlike, doesn't it.

Hard to tell, given the slobber factor.

Size can be a guide. If it's much bigger than a toonie, I'd say rat. Mice are pretty fricking small.

It's way bigger than a tooney. It's the size of a full grown mouse. But has Rat like whiskers and ears.

[heavyfuel]

It's a baby kangaroo!

[lilmira]

Look out for the turtles

http://kennysilva.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles.jpg

[GS430]

Originally posted by heavyfuel
It's a baby kangaroo!

I'm a kangaroo specialist and I can confirm that this is infact, a baby kangaroo, or a 'Joey' as we call it in the biz.

[Supa Dexta]

Field mice are actually euro/asian.. North america just has the plain old house mouse and deer mouse,

http://www.victorpest.com/advice/rodent-library

[Graham_A_M]

Just a field mouse. Cats usually bring things they kill back to the front door of the house, as an offering almost. Obviously they dont know their owners dont really have any interest in birds, squirrels or mice though.

If it had a really short (almost hamster like) tail, it would be a vole. Their from the same family as mice. We have those at our farm as much as typical mice such as this.

[AndyL]

Damncat's been leaving us voles of late - apparently they had a good year with all the snow...

That looks like a mouse to me...

[Tej.S]

Master splinter, is that you?!

[PencilStools]

Looks like something id send up into my hindquarts with a toilet paper roll