{"id":2781,"date":"2015-02-20T03:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2015-02-15T13:31:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T18:31:02","slug":"is-it-a-rat-or-a-mouse-how-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/20\/is-it-a-rat-or-a-mouse-how-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It a Rat or a Mouse? How to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_137\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-137\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Allison-Mouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-137\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Allison-Mouse.jpg\" alt=\"Is there a mouse in the house? Or something worse!\" width=\"200\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is there a mouse in the house? Or something worse!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s dusk and you see something small and dark scurrying across the floor of your garage, deck, backyard patio, or one of the rooms in your home. You don&#8217;t have an indoor or outdoor pet, it isn&#8217;t a flying squirrel, and you don&#8217;t have any critters that may have gotten loose from their pen like a guinea pig or rabbit. So, you&#8217;re asking yourself, &#8220;what is it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You might think it&#8217;s a baby possum or a raccoon but they&#8217;re are too big. Then it hits you, the animal is probably a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/category\/mice-rats\/\">rat or a mouse<\/a> but you don&#8217;t know how to tell the difference, until now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, rats and mice are considered rodents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Both have similar features making it difficult to determine one from the other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>There are many species for both rats and mice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Size-wise, rats are medium in size and have tails that are thin and long.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mice also have long, thin tails but they are much smaller.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A baby rat is larger than an adult mouse. 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