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aislingcastilla posted this and IT IS too cute not to share. Weremouse or little mouse that thinks it's a wolf/tiger..woger umm tilf.
Well they have another name, grasshopper mice and they live in the North American prairies and deserts.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/mouse-howls-like-a-wolf-bites-like-a-tiger/
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Before crunching into its prey, the grasshopper mouse howls. The sound is a high, sustained whistle which pierces the desert night. It is as if the rodent is imitating a wolf at miniature scale – the grasshopper mouse even stands on its hind legs and throws its head back during the shrill call. And while the rodent may cry spontaneously or emit the sound as a warning when it spots another of its kind, the grasshopper mouse regularly howls just before a kill.

The three species of grasshopper mice – all members of the genus Onychomys – are among the most carnivorous of all rodents. These are not adorable grain-eaters. Grasshopper mice are agile little predators which regularly take on prey as large, if not larger, than themselves. Insects, scorpions, lizards, and other mice make up about ninety percent of a grasshopper mouse’s diet. And, like other carnivores, they roam relatively large territories but have low population densities – a swath of habitat can only support so many hunters.