Warning to all of those who are squeamish and/or animal lovers: you might not like what you see at the bottom of this blog post. But the speculation and accusations have gone on long enough! Is is a rat, or is it a mouse? If you'd like to, you can see for yourself what crawled up from under my sink- definitely not your common, everyday, ordinary AMERICAN field mouse. I'll give you that. What we are dealing with here is a well-fed, super-gross, gargantuan CHINESE mouse. I'm sticking with that. I don't think I could live with the fact that a rat is creeping around my sweet little home here. Besides, I've mentioned the giant cricket down the street in a previous post, so we can conclude that they just grow their creatures a bit bigger in these here parts. Blame it on the rice, blame the MSG- doesn't matter. What matters is that this Goliath has been taken down! Sweet dreams, mighty mouse!
On a lighter note, here's a fun picture of me, Lucia and homemade pizza! Lucia is a transfer student, new at our school this year. The crazy thing is that she comes from the city of Qinhuangdao, from the college that I visited on my very first English week trip to China back in 2007. Even crazier is that she was there back then, participated in that English week, and ended up taking a lot of jumping pictures with me- though we didn't even really meet or talk to each other at all. And now here she is, going to my school and taking my film class! She also happens to be a sister, so she's joined our Tuesday night girls' study. The funniest part of it all is that this picture, from that first English week, has been on my "wall of jumps" here in Langfang since last year:
She's in there-can you spot her? (I know it's kinda small- she's the fourth from the right) It's like I've been waiting for her all along, and we both recognize the Father's hand in our friendship. When I pointed out the picture to her, she said that it was just further confirmation from Him that this is where she is supposed to be, and that He prepared the way for her. I say that it's more proof that jumping pictures are the best! :)
WARNING! HERE COMES THE GROSS PICTURE!!
To put this into perspective, the trap itself is quite large, about the size of a 4x6 photograph. Industrial sized traps for industrial sized rodents.
On a lighter note, here's a fun picture of me, Lucia and homemade pizza! Lucia is a transfer student, new at our school this year. The crazy thing is that she comes from the city of Qinhuangdao, from the college that I visited on my very first English week trip to China back in 2007. Even crazier is that she was there back then, participated in that English week, and ended up taking a lot of jumping pictures with me- though we didn't even really meet or talk to each other at all. And now here she is, going to my school and taking my film class! She also happens to be a sister, so she's joined our Tuesday night girls' study. The funniest part of it all is that this picture, from that first English week, has been on my "wall of jumps" here in Langfang since last year:
She's in there-can you spot her? (I know it's kinda small- she's the fourth from the right) It's like I've been waiting for her all along, and we both recognize the Father's hand in our friendship. When I pointed out the picture to her, she said that it was just further confirmation from Him that this is where she is supposed to be, and that He prepared the way for her. I say that it's more proof that jumping pictures are the best! :)WARNING! HERE COMES THE GROSS PICTURE!!
To put this into perspective, the trap itself is quite large, about the size of a 4x6 photograph. Industrial sized traps for industrial sized rodents.
3 comments:
Hi Jess!
It seems like the size and number of nipples are simple ways to tell what you're dealing with. But the easiest way to tell the difference between rats and mice (post-mortem) is the size of the feces.
Otherwise, be careful if you're dealing with rats. They're known for carrying diseases, and their gnawing through live wiring can cause electrical fires. They're also more aggressive when cornered.
Jess
http://www.ratbehavior.org/RatsMice.htm, http://www.ratbehavior.org/QuizRatOrMouse.htm, http://www.ehow.com/how_2141591_tell-difference-between-mouse-rat.html
Awesome - love that mouse pic! RIP fatty. You may want to go out and get a chinese sized cat to take care of any family he may have...
Definitely a very large mouse... I'm basing my opinion on the fact that I thought rats were darker in color... :P
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