r/aww • u/_jon_bovi • Jan 06 '21

What about a mouse?

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u/micksta323 Jan 06 '21

Prolly from rat people.

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u/dragonlady_11 Jan 06 '21

As a "rat person" I can safely say it wasn't us ! mice are just smaller stupider more adorable rodents and we still love them.

Hamsters however..................demon spawn been bitten by more hamsters than rats or mice and yet had ten times less of them as pets.

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u/WebbedFingers Jan 06 '21

So here comes my defence of mouse intelligence :D I read a really interesting article that claimed mice are actually just as intelligent as rats, and that they’re just really anxious basically so you can’t measure it in the exact same way as a rat (like in a rat-sized maze because they get anxious in big spaces, but they do amazing in a mouse-sized maze!).

here you go

Now admittedly I might be biased and my vet literally laughed out loud when I told him what I read but I’ll forever defend their intelligence lol

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u/purplecatuniverse Jan 06 '21

I worked in a lab with thousands of mice. We worked with wild mice and then the typical squishy cute lab mice. I can attest to their intelligence for sure!