Thursday, July 1, 2010

Mice or Moles? What are these things?!!


Last week I was mowing the lawn and ran across a loose pile of dead grass. I finally got brave enough and gently kicked it up to see what was under it was what looked like a bunch of baby mice. I couldn't kill them because they looked to much like an ultrasound I'd seen before of three human babies about 10 weeks old. That being said, I did leave them uncovered and hoped for nature to take its place, or for mama mouse to come back and move them somewhere else (preferably not back in the lawn). I did check back in on them later in the day and they were gone.

Now, fast forward to today. I'm out doing my pre-lawn-mowing check to make sure that the gutter things are up, the gates are open, and that there are no toys hiding in the lawn. That's when I find another clump of dead grass. So I uncover it and low and behold there are some slightly bigger babies. This time I gently pick them up (with a rake, not my hands!) and put them in a bucket with their clump of grass they had been living under.

So now after looking at them (from a safe distance) I am wondering if they are moles. I googled both baby mice and baby moles and they look a lot alike.

What do you think? Mice or Moles?

5 comments:

Sarah said...

First of all...you are one brave woman to even come that close to them. Second of all...I don't know if those are mice or moles, but for some reason I think they are really cute! You should let Liv raise them and keep them as pets in your house!! HA!

Sue Ann said...

Sarah, you are nuts! Funny, but nuts!

Austin and Ashley Evans said...

I think I just vomited in my mouth...

nick maure said...

i think its a mole and i just found a baby mole by my house and i touched it and it was amazingly soft!!!

Anonymous said...

I'm pretty sure those are moles. I just caught a mole yesterday in my Uncle's backyard because someone killed it's mom, I found it it's was nasty, so I took it home. My baby mole looks just like those animals in your pictures.

2 Weeks!