Adorable mouse with dandelion

GingerPeach · ‎03-12-2010

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 · ‎02-19-2014

That mouse is going to get so many wishes!

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qvcfreak · ‎03-10-2010

That last photo is adorable.

sabatini · ‎06-29-2015

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

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GingerPeach · ‎03-12-2010

@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 · ‎03-14-2010

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.

GingerPeach · ‎03-12-2010

@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 · ‎06-29-2015

TY for the edited post, @GingerPeach !

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GingerPeach · ‎03-12-2010

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

Thanks for keeping me on my toes, @sabatini

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sgraham30 · ‎03-14-2010

@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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