[BBQ] Almost cooked a mouse

[deckeda]

M A V I C wrote:
[quote=deckeda]
6" length sans tail sounds more like a rat to me. 6" length avec tail would be a mouse.

It's face, fur and shape sure looked like a quintessential mouse... but I don't really know the difference.
All I know is rats are typically twice as long, and the mice bodies I've seen (house or field mice) are only about 3" or so. Both have tails usually longer than their combined body+head I think.

But proportionally, a rat's head is larger to its body (more separate/distinct, like a squirrel's) whereas a mouse's head is more of a little wedge on the end and less distinct. Again, not positive about that.