Mouse Name given to various species of small rodents. Having a soft gray or brown fur with a long scaly or hairy tail, with large ears. The House mouse (musmusculus) comes from the old world , which is believed to to have originated in Central Asia and introduced by travel and trade routes to all parts of the world.

It lives commonly with man, often contaminating his food, damaging property, and sometimes destroying crops. Albino house mice are often used as a laboratory animals because of their rapid reproduction rates. In the New World the most common mouse are the voles, often called field mice, meadow mice, and are closely related to a to the lemming.

Voles reach a length of five to 7 in. long, stocky, with small ears and short legs and tail. They feed on plant material and are extremely prolific. Other mice found in North America are the omnivorous white footed and deer mice of the woodlands, which eat insects and small animals as well as seeds and berries; grassy places; and the insectivorous grasshopper males,

Pocket mouse (with fur lined in cheek pouches), and kangaroo

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mouse all of West North America. The jumping mice, resemble kangaroo rats, are related to the jerboa and the dormouse.

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and, like rats often carry disease.

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A spiny mouse has a stiff and prickly body of hair. They are only about 3 inches not including tail.