Urban mice and wild mice are often thought of very differently, wild or ‘Woodland’ mice are seen as small and cute delicate animals while urban mice are often seen as pests. Urban mice are seen as pests because they are associated with carrying illness and bacteria, as well as damaging property and equipment.

Many people feel that mice belong in the wild and that this is their natural habitat, in older times this would have indeed been the case. However, since industrialization, mice have tended to instead live in urban areas and are now considered ‘urban wildlife’.

This means that mice have learned how to exist alongside humans in largely urban areas and humans actually enable and support the needs of mice.