Rat vs Mouse (How to Identify & Remove)
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- Rat vs Mouse
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Both mice and rats are sociable creatures.
But rats prefer to stick with family and hide.
Mice are much more curious and will stray from the family to explore.
That is why you will find mouse droppings all over the place, and rats will be found in a designated area. The rat bathroom?
Muricide and Rats
Rats groom one another, care for one another, and even have empathy toward one another, but if they are hungry, they will eat anything, even smaller rats and mice. This is called Muricide.
Domesticated versus Wild
Rats will treat their pet owner like family. Mice, to some extent, are the same. They are familial and get close to their kin and to their owner if they are a domesticated pet.
However, wild rats and mice are a different story for two reasons:
Disease and Damage
Despite the fact much of children's literature has a rat or mouse hero, wild rats and wild mice can carry bacteria and disease that might be problematic and harmful to your family. Their urine and feces can be toxic, and have been known to cause asthma.
Teeth
Both like to gnaw with their front incisors and have the same number of teeth.
Rats leave a distinguishable larger bite mark and a mouse will leave a much more perfect little circle the size of a dime.
But both will gnaw on just about anything, from wires, to furniture, to wood and even a dog bowl.
Intelligence and Physical Capabilities
Rodents are highly intelligent creatures. In fact, in the Harvard Business Review they stated rats were even more intelligent than humans (hbr.org/2015/01/rats-can-be-s....
It is because their brains are similar in function and structure to the human brain. And despite not being as complex, they take what information is useful and leave the extra fluff out. "Pinky and the Brain" wasn't too far off.
This might make rats a little tougher to catch or trap if they figure out what you're doing. They can supposedly smell a predator or trap a "mile" away.
Mice, on the other hand, are very curious. They will more easily fall for a trap. But unlike rats, they can jump a lot further and are much sprier.
So, rats are smarter, but mice are more agile.
Communication
Rats and mice can communicate not only with squeaks and such, but they actually make a high frequency sound that cannot be heard by human ears. They’ll even tap their tails to send messages.
Main Difference - SIZE
Mice have small rice grain shaped droppings about 1/4 inch, and they will be spread out; possibly 75 or 80 a day.
Rats have larger banana-shaped droppings at around 1/2 to 3/4 inches, and they drop around 40-50 a day, but always in the same area.
Mice can squeeze through a hole the size of a dime, and they love to go all over the place for food sources.
Rats are a little bigger and have a set area where they will stay. They can fit through a hole the size of plum or slightly smaller.
Mice are usually more varied in color, but are more commonly around brownish tones. They like to live in dark places, like rats, and like to burrow and nest.
Wild rats are always around brown to darker brown to black. In the US the most common are the roof and Norway rats. Roof live in higher places, like trees and attics, and Norway rats like to burrow, similar to mice.
Mice have hairy tails, about the same length of their bodies, with small feet and large ears.
Rats have hairless tails, about the same length as their bodies and large feet and small ears.
Mice will have around 4 to 16 pups per litter; that's around 7 to 8 litters per year; which makes one female mouse produce anywhere from 28 to 128 babies in a year. Can anyone say, "infestation?" And each little mouse can consume around 3 grams of food a day, and need little water.
Rats will have around 5-10 pups per litter; that's around 3 to 6 litters a year, which means one female rat can produce from 15 to 60 pups a year.
Unlike mice, the rat needs to eat around 15 to 30 grams per day and they drink much more water at around 15 to 60 ml a day. They will travel a mile away just for a glass of water. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
no infestation just bored lol
Now that’s bored. #covid-19
lol same
Rat 🐀 or mouse 🐁 which is better
Mouse
Says the gamer
Amazing video - excellent information and tons of empathy. I wish i could have bought all the traps through these links.
The mouse build seems like it would be alot of fun to play but sounds like you'd die a ton to traps...
Traps won't kill you. The STD's that you get from some of the ones that don't take care of themselves though, that's a different story....
Caught an attic rat in my Havahart live trap. Thought it was a mighty big mouse! Thanks for details. Plugging fascia boards with steel wool and foam fill. 3 days later, peanut butter was tempting enough.
I found a mouse in my bedroom. It was very fat, maybe pregnant, carrying a piece of paper in its mouth. That scares me because I think it's building a nest to lay its brood.
Did you end up catching her?
@@gg_ingy Yes! I left a trap smeared with peanut butter in the kitchen and it died a quick death the next day. It left behind a bad musky odor in my bedroom when it made a scent trail.
I have a bird feeder about ten feet away from my window and right under it is a little rat hole, as of now it isn’t causing problems and it’s fun to watch, it’s burrow is facing the window so it’s like a free pet, I just hope it doesn’t mess up my garden bed!
This video made my skin crawl
Cool vid.
Tried everything.... nothing, but them suckers couldn't get past the sticky glue traps. Used WD40 to release em for wild Hawk, Falcon and Owl food. The mice almost jumped out of the 5 gallon bucket, had to raise the bucket walls, little suckers are like a loaded spring. The Rats have beadier eyes close together then the mice do and aggressively bite anything, their tails look like oily skin. I use long tongs to pick up the glue trays. They will drag the tray everywhere and some will pull their foot completely off leaving their foot.
I have a mouse in my apartment and I swear he bit me last night on my finger when I was sleeping. The thing is I woke up and I wasn’t sure if I had a dream of being bit on my finger or if the mouse actually bit me. There was no mark but it just seemed too real
Move ASAP
😂😂😂
These mice keep eating my candy
lol
if you release into the wild, fill the tank of your car up. I had one little mousie, distinctly notched ear and short tale, who could trot a three quarter mile distance without even breaking a sweat. I finally gave up and kept him as a pet.
Nice story 😂 still alive?
As, he picked you!
Would this work? Can we take them to the vet and get them treated so they can't pass diseases to us or our other pets?
Fun fact: if you have a rat problem, you won't have a mouse problem. Rats eat mice! They are predators in their own right!
Great video!
Caught 6 rats this year in my rural Mississippi home. Been living here 20 years. Always caught mice in my house. Suddenly in 2021 I have rats in my house. Where did they come from? I live in a rural area. My nearest neighbor is a quarter mile away
No infestation I must be so bored with life very interesting though 😂. I love the fact that you suggested the humane trap I think the glue traps esp are so bad
Glue traps are barbaric. I am looking into humane methods to to convince my mice neighbors that being outdoors is great now that spring is here. I have 3 cats and never dreamed I would have such a problem.
I have mice or rats (I think they are mice) saw them twice but only for a split second (fast little critters) so I set traps with peanut butter. But they are avoiding the traps. Have no idea how to get rid of them and I need to do it quick
Sorry but my mouse jumped out of my 5 gallon bucket. I would recommend a medium size trash can.
Intuitively i knew it would be better to use a larger container.
I only had a plastic waste paper bin, (about 18") but used vegetable oil all over the inside to make it slippery. I tied a piece of wrapping paper taughtly over the top, cut a cross in it, and smeared peanut butter on the points. The ramp was the wrapping paper card tube, its entrance placed under a kitchen unit. I caught the mouse within a couple of hours of setting it up! He could jump as high as the top, but not out. Very efficient, and easily constructed from stuff already around the house.
Just kicked one out of my compost bin. Now I know it was a mouse. Thank you for the detailed information.
After I’ve watched this video I’ve came to the conclusion that I have Norway rats in my house... ew.
Eww
@@sarahs7751 you can’t prevent it but it does suck it always can happen
@ILOVERATS theres a difference between pet rodents and actual pests
@ILOVERATS nah wild rats r disgusting they literally caused a plague that wiped out hundreds of millions
@ILOVERATS ah yes but your clearly a spastic I say wild rats is ur rat wild no so stfu
Bro the fact that there is literally a mice in my bedroom rn like no kidding I’m scared 😟
Knowing me... I’ll prolly throw the trap with the mouse inside into the water😔 I’m sorry but I just hate them...
What about straight white vinegar?
dang. ive had a mouse and a chipmunk in my house. killed the mouse but the chipmunk was let go alive just because chipmunks dont lead to snakes like mice do. and also because the chipmunk was cute!
But mouses are also cute lol but the problem is they are gross
I was in the kitchen at 3 am and there was a mouse that fell of the chair and the I saw him again in a closet I don’t what to do and I am really scared of them for some reason
I saw a glimpse of a rather a mouse or rat in my home, it left a horrible smell behind, and it could of been a pregnant mouse?? or a rat, i’m unsure.
When I was younger, I once saw a large dead rat on my yard when I went out to play. It’s front teeth were SO yellow. 🤢🤮
We do have rats in our house and I caught one inside the garbage pail. everybody is telling me that there's probably more than one. I have bought some rat traps on Amazon. I do hear tiny little squeaks in the wall so I think I got rid of the mother and now the babies are crying for food. How long will they live without the mother and can they interbreed with each other to multiply?
Yes they can currently dealing with rats too
Rat in the bathroom, how'd you know? Well, it's either a huge mouse or a rat idk yet
Is there a greasy trail where it regularly walks?
Is the tail hairy or not?
I have four very young tiny baby mice that I saved from my cats and my mobile home we live way out in the woods and it's very cold this winter once in awhile they get in even though you spray foamed underneath and done everything you can think of to keep them out they still find a way to get in but we saved their little lives and now we have them living in an aquarium we feed them and give them fresh water daily we bought them a little hamster wheel and they all run on that and we put like a little igloo and a little log that has a hole in it that goes in a fish tank and they all cuddle right from the start they accepted each other and they cuddle so that makes me question what you said about how rats and their families, because these four little mice maybe they are family ? But they loved each other from the start and we will release them once it is warm out away from our house
Quick hit to the head with a hammer will take care of them.
All rats and mice should be eliminated. Nothing cute about them. They are nasty and destructive.
That's cute. I'm here doing all out warfare with them. But each to their own lol
Most informative video while I'm trying to figure out the creature in my kitchen
My sister has an albino rat if im nog mistaken. It has complete white hair and its eyes are red. Maybe I am wrong though.
We have had a problem for years! I thought we had solved it but I started sleeping in family room next to handicapped sons room so i hear and have seen them at night! I cant seem to catch these elusive babies that I had in a cage and my killer dog got hold of it and killed one and 2 others escaped(long story)Last night i heard them in the walls of my hall bathroom! Do I need a pro? I dont want to kill them but at this point it might be a must! I have quite a few catch and release traps and I have only caught a few in the ones like you have shown but caught many more in the larger metal ones! I like th e idea of a bucket in the attic and was wondering since Its not so easy to get into the attic to check daily could I leave food and water for them in the bucket and check once a week or so then release what I have caught? is it feasible to think I can rid my house of these on my own since its been going on for years and have seen and caught many!
Basically a mouse is 10x cuter
Great video
I watched scary movie 3 and I wanted to know if there's a difference.
I was gonna say, I ain't never seen no mouse outside.
I always thought a rat was pretty much an adult mouse because of the bigger size
White vinegar is good to use too
How do u use it?
Just apply round where they get in
Is it normal for even a man to be scared of rats? I have mouses in my workplace. I caught 4 using glue traps. They r small grey
JOSEPH KW bro I kid you not I have a bad phobia of rats. When I saw one in my kitchen I ran out of my house and fainted on my grass. My neighbors were worried for me
@@guillermomelendez779 fk that's tough. I was so scared of them but funny that after seeing some of the mice caught in the traps made my fear less of them. But rats r fkn ugly and bigger.
Hey the term is mice
@@demolitionderbydrive_115 thanks dr dictionary
Very strange rat/mouse story,i was on my phone on the bed in living room and a rat/mouse jumped in from outside through window and thats the day my phobia
Holy moly
Rats are a little bit bigger more like twice the size
I once found a one inch by one inch hole in the screen of my kitchen window. We leave the glass part up to let air in. Another hole appeared, then another, then another, covering each one up with duct tape. Didn't know what was causing it until I heard a banging noise against the closed window (yes I decided to close it) at around 2 am. It was a fucking rat trying to get at the food in the kitchen
No rats no mouses just needed something interesting to watch 😂.
A rat just killed my bird this morning and im ready for revenge
dude i tried to search up why do mouses have curvs like a computer mouse and THIS came up??????????????
😂😂You just don't know how helpful this was. I always argue with my friends that they are two different animals
Not only are different but usually where you have rats, you stop having mice. Rats are amazing predators of mice. So rats tend to "clean" mice infestation. Cats, ferrets, etc. tend to "clean" both.
@@crpth1 it’s way worse to have rats tho 😂
*_OOOOOHH SHITTTTTTTTT!_*
A mouse
A hybrid
God damnit, I cant take you guys anywhere..
A rat skkskssk
In my experience baking soda releases all of its carbon dioxide the minute it touches water water. Does it make sense to put water in the baking soda because you want the carbon dioxide to be released after the rat eats the bait.
I get both rats and mice. I always have at least 2 traps set in my yard. I have snap traps and wire cage traps. The wire cage traps seem to catch more. I've caught everything from tiny mice to squirrels to birds and lizzards. But the squirrels are really rough on the small cage traps. They really need bigger trap, meant for squirrels. Once you get problem under control.. always keep a few traps set for new rats. Better to get them early before they start a family in your yard.
Okay, rats are big and scarier
I seen what looks like a rat so I put traps out but killed a mouse still have traps out bc the one I killed doesn’t look the size I saw
Fuckkk
Rats are extremely smart regular most traps will not work.
Chuck E. Cheese Vs Mickey Mouse
We get an occasional mouse or 2. I would love eliminate that all together.
Lmao I'm here after I caught one in my bathroom it ran behind my toilet and I caught it and it kept jumping and I got bit bye it lil mouse didnt want to let go 😑
Its a Rat , its a flesh eater
It was fear biting you scared that poor little mouse. As far as any animal biting you you should scrub down and apply peroxide or some other germicide immediately. A cat bit me once and I didn't carefully clean up the wound. My hand got swollen and it traveled to my hand. A vet after the fact told me her friend died at age 29 from a cat bite.
amazing
there is a lil shit fuckin around in my room rn 😧 we think he got in from our garage because its winter and he was looking for somewhere warm.i think its a mouse because he can fit under the crack in my closet.BUT he hasn't been all over the house probably because i keep my door closed 100% of the time no exceptions (i have asthma and don't want to let the dogs in to get their fur everywhere) but he has definitely been ALL over the room the droppings are scattered and about hamster sized? and the bitch is loud ALL damn night running around all the time unless the light is on. Haven't gotten a good look at him since my only glances have been sleepy eyed at night but he's definitely gray can't say for the tail he's either of very fat mouse or a very tiny rat. He's made the jump from my open dresser drawer to the closet three times this night whilst I've caught him it's about 3 ft so maybe a mouse but i think rats can jump too?? so idk !!!please help 😭!!!
"Rats are bigger" can be a misconception. I've held tame rats and mice, and both are also seen "in the wild" in my area... I once had a tiny mouse walk into my home through the backdoor (saw him entering) from the backyard, that little mouse grew bigger than a rat.
Funny thing is, after a few attempts to get rid of that mouse it basically became my house mouse, more comfortable with me than any of its tame cousins that I've had.... and more intelligent. Several times it even looked like he was figuring out methods to attempt to communicate with me.
Don't take this as me saying that they're just cute smart housepets, I've seen plenty of places where mice and rats have been absolute pests, and not a lot of places where it was a single clever friendly individual wild mouse/rat that behaved like a tame pet; I'm just saying that there's a lot of different subspecies of them, and not all of those got the memo about size or intelligence. You might be lucky and get one that's good company, or you might get unlucky and get a whole swarm of pests gunking up your house and food... just like you might win that $50,000,000,000 lottery prize, or you might just have thrown away the money that a ticket cost you, and then find that you can't afford a meal anymore that day...
Me:sees rat o ive got an idea rat vs mice
Hmhmhmhm....good luck getting into the 16th floor..means only the black roof rats ninja can reach me ....I must be the op final boss in their metroidvania
They can easily climb up the building through the piping and things like that not a hard final boss to get to Mabey it’s a hard fight tho 😂
Nah I heard squeaking and rustling undery bed and I'm absolutely terrified
We live next door to some very dirty scruffy people we heard scuffling and squeaks in the walls on a night a few weeks later we had mice in our house we had 3 weeks of hell trying to get rid of them to no avail then we bought a cat and let me tell you within a couple of days we was mouse free now we don't see or hear anything what's so ever and trust me when I say we had them bad they were in our bedroom with us on a night it was horrible so thank God for our little princess she drove them all away for us
Yeah because I don't know if I have a food rat or a house mouse
Can mice be black because I saw a black mouse jump into a pot and it looked black
Yes. Depending on where you live. Where I live we have house mice (dark color, white belly. It's an invasive species), and deer / field mice that are brown. Bigger eyes and ears.
Man I noticed the mice a while ago but their population has exploded
They can have hundreds of babies a year
@@nonbasicz6083 hey I got rid of the mice in my trailer! Here's the secret...
Rats ... 😐
If your living space starts to see rats you will not see much of any mice . I didn't get rats on purpose btw . But anyway, since I now only see my trailer about once a week because of work, the rats have taken over. Even the areas they never would show themselves at. There's rat poop on my footaun/bed now 😐
It's the most disgusting problem I've ever had in my life. I don't know what to do , where to start... I'm tempted to burn my trailer to the ground but I don't need any accusations of arson of an occupied structure, class 2 felony 😐
Not sure about poison. They say then you will smell them rotting in your walls. 😑
My only plan is to douse the trailer with bleach water and then vaccum. I'm going to throw everything out of that mother fucker. Fuck my footaun, fuck my clothes on the floor that rats have been shitting on. Fuck the trailer too
@@therealandrewcano here’s what you need to do I’ve never had mice or rats but you need to call an exterminator place as man traps as you can buy down where you see the rats active most and keep and keep on doing it till you don’t see them as often
Natural predators (hawks, owls) chased a rat on my porch. 38 special makes short work of them
Nice
I thought a mice turns into a rat that’s why I here
Awkward I don’t have an infestation rats just crossed my mind. Lol
No infestation just teaching my son 😁
Good!! Baffles me how some people don't know the difference so education is good 😊
@@poppy-spades as long as they die it’s fine
We have a rat using my kitty little box - off to Home Depot for some poison.
Coool. I found a rat in ny garden and thought it was a small mouse.
How?? It makes more sense to think a mouse is a small rat, rats are frickin huge 😂
@@poppy-spades but what if the rat is a baby ? I'm sorry I still don't know what I found in my room 😭.
@@hanashuu7951 Typically mice have larger ears compared to their head, rats have larger feet and heads. Though, if you saw it briefly in your room I suppose you wouldn't have gotten a chance to get a good look
Sorry to be gross here but 😔 if they are likely around your house a lot and you find poop: rat poop is bigger than a grain of rice and mouse poop is smaller than that
Just wanna buy one
Thanks for mentioning some HUMANE ways to catch & release mice. Despite the problems they present to homes, mice (& rats) are fascinating little creatures. 😎
Bubonic plague. Enough said.
@@michaelschwader7944 😎 The good news is that, unlike Covid-19, we've had clear treatments for Bubonic plague for a long time now. Also, New York has pretty much always had rodent issues, but it's STILL one of the most Exciting places on the Planet! Wherever I go, it's the (2-legged Rats) that concern me the Most ! 😂
mouse in my house they have small poop and they have they walk around our house and they always make noise that we can hear and it made an small hole so i know a mouse in my house
in our Language it's the same one! I don't see any difference 😉
In our language, too.
Ikr
They are both in the rodent family and very similar. The mice i have in my home are super cute with mickey mouse ears. If only they cleaned up after themselves.
I do have Some rodent in My house For sure 🤣
Ok now if I go to jail I'll know the diiffeence.
I just wanted to see them fight but thx
I got a mouse in my house but the only thing it does is squeaking my mom named him jerry cause tom & cherry
Watched one jump in my bleach
I have never found droppings...
So u have rats lol jk
@@galileafuentes315 if u do and your shoe is big enough just stomp
Rats free Alberta
OK so I found a small mouse and I saved it from a cat
Shouldnt have bothered.. Cats need to eat too.. Mice are greedy little bastards
But why?
@@TheRealToastman Mana green just explained it
I know lots about mouses and rats
I might get a disease omfg
Ohhhh so I have a Mouse in my house cause this morning I saw like little rice size poop Ohhh what a surprise
@@nonbasicz6083 Oh phew ε-(´・｀)ﾌ
@@nonbasicz6083 Well it got out of my house so I don't have to worry about it.. hopefully
@@nonbasicz6083 no I'm pretty sure it left because I don't see any poop in the bathroom or in the kitchen but yeah
@@nonbasicz6083 hold up mice and mouse aren't the same??
i have both types of rats lol
Idk which I have ain't seen any ain't seen no droppings or no bites in things around the house all I have heard is scratching. laying in bed an heard a scratching sound listened closely it first sounded like it was in the external wall kept listening an heard it again so tapped an it stopped then started again then it sounded like it was under my bed ain't slept in my room since next day I went to look under my bed did not see any signs but did find that my daughter had hidden a peanut butter sandwich under my bed. Why 🤦🏽♀️😒 idk. But I'm guessing it a mouse as they like peanut butter I guess that's what it came for.
mice rats or mouse I'm confuised
Can baking soda kill mice the same as it can kill rats I want some effective methods to kill mice almost instantly what's some homemade poisons I can make to kill them please help me someone
Rats and Mice look a like but Rats are bigger then Mice
We all know rats are stronger and bigger and smarts and they kill
Literally did not mention anything about how to trap a rat only mice 😢
I would like to have a mouse and a rat
🐁
I think I caught a rat
I have a Guinea pig infestation in my back yard. I will have to cook then feed them to my dog
And I'm here just wondering, how can I get Rid of a two legs Rat in my house 😫
As I watch this a rat is in my ✨ bathroom ✨ please I need help but I did not do school today because of it soo 😼
Who’s here cause they were watching a ratatouille education with their kid lol?? Smh
Wow I got noway rats