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been hunting him for a week!

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uhh... I think that is it.

I believe that the latin name is "veri-deadratus-maximus !

>>been hunting him for a week!

Are you SURE it's a rat? Its size looks more like a mouse, and it looks like the wild deer mice [Peromyscus maniculatus] that I'm forever trying to trap in my apartment.

If you are getting deer mice, take care with how you dispose of not just them but also feces etc. - these things can carry hanta virus and that's definitely bad news for humans as well as for rodents you may keep.

Here's a link to a picture of a live one.... and again, I may be way off base, but the pic you attached definitely looks like a deer mouse.
Deer Mouse

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He couldn't get caught in a moustrap so what you see is actually a very large rat trap.
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0.1 Rubber Boa
1.1 Eastern Hognose Snakes
2.3 Western Hognose Snakes
1.0 Durango Mountain Kingsnake
1.1 Woma's (new!)
Spadefoot
Black Knobbed Sawback
Northern Diamondback
Florida Redbellied Slider
Western Painted
Southern Painted
1.0 African Hedgehog
1.0 Sulcata
2.1 Leopard (Babcocki) 1.0 borrowed (thanks Bobby)
2 Plecos
2 Silver Dollars
3 Bosemian Rainbows
1 African Dwarf Frog
1 Khuli Loach
1 Cory Cat
1 Upside Down Catfish
2.0 Fire Guramis

uhh... I think that is it.

the long tail is a dead give away..!

nice snag with the trap too.. love those "snap" traps.. they are hard to find around seattle now a days.. "cruel" i believe they were called.. wussies!

I agree, it looks like a young roof rat. (I've cought plenty of them myself, but all outside fortunately!

Rodney

This appears to be Rattus Rattus AKA roof rat. Smaller and more arboreal than Rattus Norvegicus, the more domestic one we find in pet stores. The larger ears and longer tail and buggier eyes are what makes it distinctive. Interestingly enough, a Norway rat will easily kill a tree rat given the chance. This is why in some parts of China they keep the Norway rat as a house pet.