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Help identifying a rodent
YodaTuna
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This morning, I woke up to a scratching sound in my wall. I finally identified the hole and a rodent now creeping out of it. After a nearly hour long stand off with the bastard, I managed to catch him.
Now it doesn't appear to be a mouse or a rat as it doesn't have a tail. And it definitely seems to big to be a mouse.
It's black, with extra long white hair on it's butt. Currently it's eat lettuce in it's makeshift jail. Basically, my girlfriend is worried that it's someone's pet and doesn't want me to free it into the wild. I'm having trouble getting a decent picture of it, but I'll post it if I do.
Now it doesn't appear to be a mouse or a rat as it doesn't have a tail. And it definitely seems to big to be a mouse.
It's black, with extra long white hair on it's butt. Currently it's eat lettuce in it's makeshift jail. Basically, my girlfriend is worried that it's someone's pet and doesn't want me to free it into the wild. I'm having trouble getting a decent picture of it, but I'll post it if I do.
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Most of the pictures for voles I could find showed tails. No tail on this guy at all.
Or, as I so often would proclaim when taking pictures of creatures in The Amazon Trail, "It's a new species!"
But we need a picture.
Did it bite you when you caught him? If not, it is almost certainly a pet. Wild unsocialized rodents WILL bite you if you try to pick them up. (So will pets, if they're scared enough.)
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
http://img7.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=pic1hkz.jpg
I didn't try to pick it up, I just dropped a box on it, in case it is wild.
edit: Well, two votes for a hamster so far.
You're obligated to adopt it and treat it well until it dies and then you can bury it in a shoebox.
edit.. holy shit just looked at the second picture, that is some fucking crazy fur on that thing. It might be an alien hamster in which case you should not adopt it but instead alert the federal government. Or don a suit of armor and fight it in an arena.
Get a cage and wheel.
Baby hamsters have that fur on their ass. Judging by the pointness of the tail, I'd wager not very old either.
There's probably a colony of hamsters in the walls though.:!:
They're really fun pets. Low odor, intellegent, and social if handeld carefully.
If you can't find the owner and want to keep it as a pet, you should take it to the vet to get it checked for mites and stuff like that.
I've been staunch anti-pet for awhile. In normal circumstances, I would let this slide and keep it. Unfortunately I'm unemployed and can't really afford hamster equipment and a vet visit.
If your girlfriend wants to keep it then she should have to pay for all that stuff.
He is a cute little guy, though.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Seriously though, I bet you could get all the stuff you need for a hamster from one of your neighbors for really cheap. Ask around.
The best hamster habitat I've ever had was a tupperware storage bin from Target.
I drilled some holes in the top for air and screw holes on the side to mount a water bottle. The benefit of this? Easy to clean, and if it's sufficiently tall, it's impossible for the hamster to escape. It's kind of hard for Houdini to climb a slick plastic wall. The locking lid allows you to take the hamster in the car easily if visiting family or whatnot.
I don't use those colored plastic tubes, either. I just use old paper towel rolls.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
This is exactly what he's in now. I tried to put a tray of water. It didn't like that. Flipped the tray over, got wet and now it's freaking out. So much for trying to be helpful.
Oh god. You got him wet? Next thing you'l lbe tellign us you fed him after midnight.
You'd have to weight it don, or get a hanging water bottle. Might just drink from a sportsbottle if you held it for awile.
"I've found a hamster, is it yours? If 'no', do you have any hamster apparatus you'd be willing to part with?"
Either you find the owner, or you get free hamster gear.
Yeah, small dishes are too light generally speaking, and they'll flip poop and stuff in it by accident when they try to burrow.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Turns out it was my neighbor's hamster from two apartments down. The little girl had been searching for it all day!
I've had bowel movements that were better men than you.