# The Southwestern Carniverous Mouse

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southwestern-carniverous-mouse/3816>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 10, 1999, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southwestern-carniverous-mouse/3816 "1999-10-10T20:54:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 1999, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southwestern-carniverous-mouse/3816/1 "1999-10-10T20:54:00Z")

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No, it’s name aint Mickey.

A few months ago, I was watching a program on the Discovery Channel on an animal that I had never heard of before–the Carniverous Mouse.

It hunts insects, tarantulas & even other mice! It even howels just like a wolf, only quieter & higher pitched.

I’ve checked my local library, a university library & “all around the town”.

**I need book & Web references**.

Anybody got any ideas?

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Attention C#3:“The inside of your musty head is a exercise  
wheel; in which two gerbils, Vanity and Credulity  
by name, tussle fruitlessly over the walnut that  
represents your banal & pointless existance.”

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**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 1999, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southwestern-carniverous-mouse/3816/2 "1999-10-11T01:35:00Z")

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Check out the Grasshopper Mouse. Actually several species in genus Onychomys. Nasty rodent, got a mean streak a mile wide…

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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 1999, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southwestern-carniverous-mouse/3816/3 "1999-10-11T01:45:00Z")

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Does a Brooklyn Wharf Rat count as a mouse?  
Peace,  
mangeorge

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Work like you don’t need the money…  
Love like you’ve never been hurt…  
Dance like nobody’s watching! …(Paraphrased)

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**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 1999, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southwestern-carniverous-mouse/3816/4 "1999-10-11T02:28:00Z")

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Personally **mangeorge** , ah woodn’t be callin’ a Brooklyn Wharf Rat no mouse. ‘e might wanna do sumpin’ aboud id.

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**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 1999, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southwestern-carniverous-mouse/3816/5 "1999-10-11T02:29:00Z")

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Personally **mangeorge** , ah woodn’t be callin’ no Brooklyn Wharf Rat a mouse. ‘e might wanna do sumpin’ aboud id.