Kangaroo rat

I've been thinking a lot at night about the mouse that died in my house. I'd written that it was a kangaroo mouse, but that didn't quite fit, since the mouse's habitat is only in the southwest desert. I thought about what this creature looked like, and aside from its small arms and long, strong legs and its cuteness, its notable feature was a long black tail, in fact a tail that I associate with rats, except it wasn't pink. 


Here is a picture of a Kangaroo Rat, genus dipodomys - not mouse nor rat. The pictures I've found of the kangaroo mouse, genus microdipodops, show them to be nearly identical, so we'll go with habitat.

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This will maybe teach me to do better research before I dispose of my subject, and before I start writing about it!


Rest in peace, little dipodomys.


Finished The Women's Room and will start Nora Ephron's I Remember Nothing. Norah Ephron died June 26, 2012, was also the Class of '62, Wellesley. I have much to say about The Women's Room - tomorrow.