Roof rat large eyes large ears slender longer hairless tail house mouse small all the way around with a tail as coated with fur as the rest of its body habits of each rodent rats and mice can squeeze through holes just large enough to pass their heads through as small as for mice and inch for rats.
Roof rat vs house mouse.
Droppings are typically found around where these creatures eat.
1 2 to 1 lb 10 17 oz length including tail.
So if rats and mice have found food around your home you might find their droppings in the kitchen as well as the attic or other places they hide.
How to identify a rodent.
Mice and rats can make excellent pets.
30 to 45 cm 12 18 body.
Small head small feet pointed snout large ears with some hair.
The roof rat is the smaller of the two and it is often mistaken for a mouse due to their large ears and pointed noses.
The head and feet of adult house mice are proportionally smaller than their bodies while young rats have larger heads and feet in comparison to their bodies.
Rats grow to a body of 8 inches and a tail of 9 inches and a weight of almost a pound.
Average 4 7 per year feeding habits.
As you can see the biggest difference is size.
Thick or stocky body.
When domesticated they are clean intelligent and docile.
2 3 months gestation process.
Home blog a mouse in the house a rat in the roof.
Their coats are white gray brown or black in color and are often soiled enough to leave grease marks on touched surfaces.
Rats are medium sized to large rodents.
Also known as brown rat sewer rat water rat gray rat house rat and wharf rat color.
Families of mice consist of one dominant male several females and their young.
However rats may grow to be as long as 40 cm or more and weigh considerably more than mice.
How to identify a rodent a mouse in the house a rat in the roof.
23 days litter size.
Rats live in similar colony structures.
The snout of the rat is more blunt than that of the.
6 12 per litter no.
A norway rat has capsule shaped feces while a roof rat has spindle shaped droppings and a house mouse has rod shaped excrement.
Steady eater but afraid of new.
A roof rat will be colored brown or black and if you have ever had the opportunity to view one up close or even hold it you would see and feel that the fur is very soft and smooth.
Roof rats this species is agile and slender though roof rats are about the same length as norway rats.
These rodents are grayish brown in color with a light yellow underside.
Roof rats have pointed noses and large ears and are often mistaken for house mice.
While there are several species of rats and mice i will examine the two most common ones the roof or black rat and the house mouse both seen in the above photograph.
Blunt nose short ears sexual maturity.
