I recently moved into a new apartment, and a couple weeks ago I saw a mouse. Nothing like the rat in this picture, though - it was tiny, and simply scurried across the floor. I haven't seen it since.
I picked up some humane traps. But some part of me is like, "It's probably in here because it's cold as fuck outside. Do I really want to dump it out in the frozen woods somewhere?"
I mean, it is what it is, it's a wild animal and surely has ways to adapt. But if I manage to catch it I'm somewhat tempted to take it to a vet and get a cage and just... let it stay inside, warm, fed, but unable to climb into my trash. (Which makes me hope it's a male mouse, because compassionate as I am, I'm not looking to deal with mouse-babies.)
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ashestoashes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 98 pts · 245d
that's a big ass rat
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org · 34 pts · 244d
I would usually use the metric system but here I feel more confident saying it's approximately two feet long without its tail.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 244d
How many football fields is that?
Godnroc@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 244d
Well, an American football field is 100 yards not counting the end zones. There's 3 feet in a yard, so 300ft. 2/300 is roughly 0.0066.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 244d
I don't understand why those circles and squiggly lines are.
Can you express that in lengths of a prime time sitcom? It's the only numerical system I understand
Godnroc@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d
Sure, if it was a sitcom episode it would be over before the theme song finished playing. (12 seconds)
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 244d
Wow that's a big rat!
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 244d
Like 10-ish times the size of the rat I had as a kid.
Stamau123@lemmy.world · 75 pts · 245d
An unusually sized rat
Firoaren@sh.itjust.works · 69 pts · 244d
Rodents of unusual size? I don't believe they exist
fascicle@leminal.space · 29 pts · 244d
New York sized
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 12 pts · 244d
Old New York or New New York?
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d
No, I'm! Doesn't.
huppakee@piefed.social · 72 pts · 244d
Damn, a rat that size might as well pay rent.
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 244d
Or rather this person can stop paying their.
At the very least, comrade Manuel's arrival should've driven local property prices down enough to require proper adjustments to rent costs.
MotoAsh@piefed.social · 4 pts · 244d
Nono, prices never go down. Don't you capitalism!?
gingersaffronapricat@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 244d
Plot twist. The rat it typing. Manuel is the human
Hupf@feddit.org · 15 pts · 244d
https://xkcd.com/1530/
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 244d
Do you all like, memorize the link ids for these?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 229d
"xkcd spider human typing home row 7"
alx@piefed.blahaj.zone · 35 pts · 245d
I love Manuel too
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 244d
I recently moved into a new apartment, and a couple weeks ago I saw a mouse. Nothing like the rat in this picture, though - it was tiny, and simply scurried across the floor. I haven't seen it since.
I picked up some humane traps. But some part of me is like, "It's probably in here because it's cold as fuck outside. Do I really want to dump it out in the frozen woods somewhere?"
I mean, it is what it is, it's a wild animal and surely has ways to adapt. But if I manage to catch it I'm somewhat tempted to take it to a vet and get a cage and just... let it stay inside, warm, fed, but unable to climb into my trash. (Which makes me hope it's a male mouse, because compassionate as I am, I'm not looking to deal with mouse-babies.)
highrfrequenc@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 244d
Rats are great pets. Mice are not. Too many diseases they carry that will mess up your whole life.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 244d
It is a concern, which is why a vet visit would be the first thing to do. I bet it’d be expensive though…
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 244d
Even a vet might not catch every disease that a wild animal might carry.
trashcroissant@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 244d
Wtf how is this not a cat am I getting wooshed
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 244d
I grew up rurally. I've seen one about the same size. My cat took one look at it, noped out and went back inside.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 244d
Big cities have huge rats too
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 244d
The city I live in isn't big by a long stretch, but we sometimes have otters come into the shops in the summer.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 229d
it's probably some rat-adjacent species, like there's the Giant Pouched Rat which looks a lot like this
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 244d
nope@jlai.lu · 8 pts · 244d
Téma la taille du rat
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 244d
2 times is unreasonably funny to me
blazeknave@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d
https://share.google/aAaIBEi6cUchXw18o