Newbie here. I am at a loss to identify the critter shown. Our next door neighbour has the odd rat in their garden, we think from some minor excavations behind their property. This was caught in the trap, please identify. The last thing we want to do is to trap cute field mice.
Hi trooper and welcome. Too small for a rat, but a quick look around leads me to believe that it is a wood mouse. I have them where I live, the night camera pick them up now and again.
Hi trooper, as a train of thought, if you do get a rat in your garden, you may want to think of investing in a non lethal trap. I say this because I am sure you don't want to kill animals that are garden friendly, especially hedgehogs. If you use a non lethal trap can take them a couple of miles away and release. Or despatch them in the cage.
Good thinking batman, but the dispatched rats, mice, as it turned out, were put to good use. Their carcasses were left on the lawn & soon snapped up by, I presume, birds, during the day. When I had big problems with grey squirrels, I'd trap & dispatch them & did likewise, overnight. Our urban fox did the rest!
I read somewhere a while back that someone had taken an injured grey squirrel to a "rescue" centre, who nursed it back to health & released it. As they are vermin, I thought that that was illegal?
. But I just lurve mice 
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