Rats vs. Mice: What's the Difference Between the Common Pests?
from a rat is actually pretty easy, especially if you get a good look at one. Size is the most obvious difference, explains Ian Williams, board-certified entomologist and technical services manager at Rollins, Inc. in Atlanta. Mice have bodies that are three to four inches long, with tails two to four inches long; rats, meanwhile, have bodies that are five to 10 inches long, with tails five to nine inches long.
“A rat, relatively speaking, is a pretty big rodent,” Corrigan says, weighing about a pound to a pound and a half. But mice are tiny, clocking in at around half an ounce. “Everybody gets caught by the presence of a rat,” he explains, but mice are easier to miss—and some might even call them cute. Their tails are also quite different, since rats have longer, thicker ones and mice have daintier, thinner ones. Yet another difference isAre there different species of rats and mice?
Although there are hundreds of species of rats, there are two main types that homeowners typically encounter in the United States, Williams says: the Norway rat and the roof rat . If you have a mouse in your home, it’s likely the house mouse. In some regions of the country, Williams notes, you might also encounter the deer mouse and the white-footed mouse, but they are less common.Baby rats look quite different from adult mice.
Mice, meanwhile, have normal-looking heads and feet—a dead giveaway that you’re dealing with the smaller pest. And no, mice can’t grow into rats; they’re completely separate animals. In fact, the two species can’t even cross-breed, Corrigan says.
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