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Adorable mouse with dandelion

GingerPeach — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 16:55:06 GMT

Photos by Dean Mason (BluesignV on Twitter)

ETA: This is a harvest mouse. Weight is only a quarter of an ounce.

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Porcelain — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 16:42:21 GMT

That mouse is going to get so many wishes!

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qvcfreak — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 16:43:01 GMT

That last photo is adorable.

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sabatini — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 16:49:19 GMT

Cute, but since when can a dandelion stem support a mouse?

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GingerPeach — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 16:56:16 GMT

@sabatini wrote:
Cute, but since when can a dandelion stem support a mouse?

@sabatini

It's a harvest mouse. Weight is a quarter of an ounce.

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sgraham30 — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 16:54:21 GMT

Those photos are adorable! @sabatini, I don't think that's a mouse. I don't know what they're called, but there are critters that look like a mouse, but they're much smaller than a mouse.

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GingerPeach — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 16:55:40 GMT

@sgraham30 wrote:
Those photos are adorable! @sabatini, I don't think that's a mouse. I don't know what they're called, but there are critters that look like a mouse, but they're much smaller than a mouse.

See edited OP, @sgraham30

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sabatini — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:01:03 GMT

TY for the edited post, @GingerPeach !

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GingerPeach — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:02:39 GMT

@sabatini wrote:
TY for the edited post, @GingerPeach !

Thanks for keeping me on my toes, @sabatini

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sgraham30 — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:14:38 GMT

@GingerPeach, I second the thanks for editing the post. I had no idea what they were called, my cats have found them inside my townhouse. They come into the house in the kitchen, underneath the stove. When all of my cats are hunkered down by the stove, one or more of those tiny mice are under it.

Last year they found & killed 2 of them, I'm guessing that the cats were trying to play with them & the poor things must have died of fear. I found them after they were dead, when I see a cat with a live one, I chase the cat around until I can get him/her to drop the harvest mouse, at which point I put it back outside.

One of my cats was going nuts the other day, trying to get under a drawer in my computer desk. When I opened the drawer to let her in, there was a mouse in there. She started batting it around, trying to get it to play, lost interest when it didn't respond. It turned out the poor thing was dead, one of the cats must have chased it in there.

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sabatini — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:19:48 GMT

Thanks for being so nice, @GingerPeach . I truly wasn't meaning to be snarky. I just couldn't imagine a dandelion stem supporting a mouse! (And these days so much is photoshopped.)

I had NO idea that a harvest mouse was so itsy-bitsy-teeny-tiny!

@sgraham30 , thanks for your explanation.

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Spurt — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:20:43 GMT

SO CUTE!!!

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GingerPeach — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:27:53 GMT

@sgraham30

I am going to imagine those poor dead mice now being in mouse heaven cavorting with dandelions! I guess I have no other choice. Cats will be cats.

@sabatini

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ValuSkr — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:31:11 GMT

Adorable, yes, but it's still a mouse.

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bikerbabe — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:36:40 GMT

💕I like mice. 💕

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Cakers3 — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 18:00:17 GMT

The photographer is Matt Binstead, the head keeper of the Center for British Wildlife.

It is, indeed, a harvest mouse.

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GingerPeach — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 18:21:38 GMT

@Cakers3 wrote:
The photographer is Matt Binstead, the head keeper of the Center for British Wildlife.

It is, indeed, a harvest mouse.

While Mr. Binstead has taken plenty of photos of harvest mice, he may have taken them at the Windows on Wildlife workshops hosted by Dean Mason. These photos are credited to Dean Mason, @Cakers3

Binstead's harvest mice photos aren't quite the same, as far as I can tell. Do you have more info about them?

https://www.deanmasonwildlifephotography.co.uk/gallery/harvest-mice-29118/photo/flower-for-the-ladies-1505808/large

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Lindsays Grandma — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 01:27:59 GMT

The pictures are adorable, I love them. I am not especially fond of mice, but this little one is so cute.

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Cakers3 — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 14:11:54 GMT

@GingerPeach wrote:
@Cakers3 wrote:
The photographer is Matt Binstead, the head keeper of the Center for British Wildlife.

It is, indeed, a harvest mouse.

While Mr. Binstead has taken plenty of photos of harvest mice, he may have taken them at the Windows on Wildlife workshops hosted by Dean Mason. These photos are credited to Dean Mason, @Cakers3

Binstead's harvest mice photos aren't quite the same, as far as I can tell. Do you have more info about them?

https://www.deanmasonwildlifephotography.co.uk/gallery/harvest-mice-29118/photo/flower-for-the-ladies-1505808/large

@GingerPeach I found Matt on Flickr and on the Daily Mail. I just searched "mouse on dandelion" to see who the photographer was and he came up first.

Perhaps we are looking at different sets of pictures by two different photographers.

Either way, both men did an incredible job.

Thanks for posting these!

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qualitygal — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 09:24:49 GMT

So tiny.