My friend Eddie trapped a four inch rodent in his attic. He and I
cannot recognize what kind of rodent it is. I thought at first it was a
mouse or a rat, but its feather-like tail makes me doubt this. Could
you identify it? I took photos of it and posted them on this website:
www.gordonrichard.com/rodent

Richard Gordon

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My friend Eddie trapped a four inch rodent in his attic. He and I
cannot recognize what kind of rodent it is. I thought at first it was a
mouse or a rat, but its feather-like tail makes me doubt this. Could
you identify it? I took photos of it and posted them on this website:
www.gordonrichard.com/rodent

Richard Gordon



Maybe a flying squirrel..not sure. What part of the country are you
in.. I can give the link to exterminators in your area to look at it.
--
Lar

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Rockford wrote:

My friend Eddie trapped a four inch rodent in his attic. He and I
cannot recognize what kind of rodent it is. I thought at first it was a
mouse or a rat, but its feather-like tail makes me doubt this. Could
you identify it? I took photos of it and posted them on this website:
www.gordonrichard.com/rodent

Looks like a young grey squirrel. Their tails don't fluff when they're
dead.


Dawn

Hi Richard,

I agree that without knowing where you are located it would be difficult to say what species of squirrel starved to death in your friend's Havahart trap. You might want to inform your friend that the trap is designed to live trap and release the 'pest', not let it starve to death because he went on a trip.

Now that I've ranted, I'd like to warn your friend to have every inch of electrical wires inspected in the attic. Friends of ours didn't do this and it took two years for the chewed wires to overheat and burn the house half down.

Newt

I am not an expert, but did anyone in the neibhorhood lose a pet
gerbil? It looks extremely similar to a gerbil to me...

Tony