The Mice Squad is a Canadian comic strip by Larry Purdy. It first appeared in The Evening Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) on October 24, 1994. Later, the mice spread out into The Chronicle Herald (Halifax, Nova Scotia), The Daily Press (Timmins, Ontario), The Sherbrooke Record (Sherbrooke, Ontario), The Western Star (Corner Brook, Newfoundland), Northern News (Kirkland Lake, Ontario) and The Edge - A Salvation Army Publication. The strip follows the lives of a group of mice and their pet crab who live in the town of Beavernose. Some of the mice form a hockey team called The Mice Squad.