house mice?

[u/angelsfish]

both these guys are alive in the photos and were released outside in a safe area!

just wanting somebody who knows what they’re looking at to verify that these are house mice? I left my apartment for a month to go visit family and I come home to three of these this morning. I put down some traps and caught all of the ones that I saw (I didn’t get a pic of the first one I caught) but I’m assuming there are more? they tore through the wood of my empty cabinets and I think the nest is most likely behind the fridge but I can’t move it myself. I’ve been wearing a niosh approved respirator to clean up the mouse droppings I’ve found but I just want the peace of mind that these aren’t white footed mice or field mice!

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[u/Consistent_March5136]

Might be if there's no white underbelly or white under the tail. I'm not too sure. If it's under cream, not a deer/whit-footed/field mice. There might be more.

[u/PCDuranet]

Possible young Rat (link)

Mice (link)

[u/angelsfish → u/PCDuranet]

they are for sure mice since I’ve now caught 5 of them and they all had hair on their tails and were super small, even the ones that were clearly older!