Can anyone identify this little fellow?

[Sophon]

Rescued this little fellow from our dogs this afternoon.

 

 

As you can see, he isn't much bigger than a 10 baht coin (so body about 3 cm long), but with a very long tail. He was hiding in an old tire we keep under our pick-up to prevent the dogs from chewing the 4-wd wire harness (but that's another story). He isn't very scared and will almost let you touch him before he moves away.

 

Before deciding what to do, I would like to know if he is an adult and able to fend for himself, or if he is only a baby and need to be fed until he is a little bigger. If letting him go, I have to bring him to somewhere away from our house as his life expectancy would be very low if staying around the house. And if I am to feed him, of course I need to know what he eats.

 

So any mouse experts out there who can identify the species? Any information you can give is much appreciated.

 

Sophon

 

[Panda13]

[overherebc]

Harvest mouse. Common all over Europe and Asia. most likely fully grown.

Let it go in a field near you.

[overherebc]

On 13/04/2017 at 7:12 PM, Panda13 said:

That was after morning exercise.

[Panda13]

That was after morning exercise.

Same ad this guy, Supermouse.

[overherebc]

2 hours ago, Panda13 said:

Same ad this guy, Supermouse.

It also looks a little bit like

Ok, you got me, I give up.

[Sophon]

On 23/04/2017 at 8:38 AM, overherebc said:

Harvest mouse. Common all over Europe and Asia. most likely fully grown.

Let it go in a field near you.

Thanks, that might be it. However, when I read the Wikipedia page on Harvest mice there are a few inconsistencies. Fully grown Harvest mice are between 55 and 75 mm long, our guest is clearly smaller than that (even if you stretch him out), so if he is a Harvest mouse he is probably not fully grown. And the tail of a Harvest mouse is supposed to be the same length (or slightly shorter) than the body, while the tail of our guest is more like 150% of the body length.

 

Maybe some kind of subspecies?

 

Sophon

[overherebc]

11 minutes ago, Sophon said:

Thanks, that might be it. However, when I read the Wikipedia page on Harvest mice there are a few inconsistencies. Fully grown Harvest mice are between 55 and 75 mm long, our guest is clearly smaller than that (even if you stretch him out), so if he is a Harvest mouse he is probably not fully grown. And the tail of a Harvest mouse is supposed to be the same length (or slightly shorter) than the body, while the tail of our guest is more like 150% of the body length.

 

Maybe some kind of subspecies?

 

Sophon

I just googled 'very small mice in thailand' quite a few different types so would probably take a mouse expert to identify it 100%, so many possibilities. If it's eating while in the box then that might show it's ok to release in a field I would reckon.

[dick dasterdly]

With my vast knowledge of mice (and in the absence of an expert able to make an identification), I can confidently state that he's an incredibly cute, tiny mouse .