Mouse
Mouse noun - Any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails.
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Rat
Rat noun - A person who provides information about another's wrongdoing.
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- Mouse and rat ears will very often be drawn rounder (usually with a slight point) and with hair on the backs of them, when actual mouse and rat ears look hairless.
Source: Furry Ear Dissonance - Another early one (and her first appearance, natch) has her arrive to bail her friends out after a Hopeless Boss Fight, carrying two Plot Coupons and dragging the unconscious mouse/rat/Pikachu-knockoff thing that had them behind her.
Source: Noodle Incident / Video Games - In the Disney film The Great Mouse Detective, Padraic Ratigan actually ISN'T a rat; he's just a mouse drawn to look like a rat.
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