Mr. and Mrs.
They didn’t like each other either. Right after I shot this, the one on the left bumped into the one on the right. Hiss and growl city. One of them disappeared a day later… Cats? Hawk? Hit Shrew?
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October 3rd, 2005 at 6:41 pm
I am not familiar with shrews. (Except for Taming of the Shrew).
Are they like having rats in your yard? The pictures look rather ratish.
All the hissing and growling makes them sound like they are sort of mean.
Beyond that-how do they survive your arctic winters? Do they sneak into cozy, warm homes for the winter?
October 3rd, 2005 at 6:48 pm
That’s what they are trying to do. They are living under the deck, and as it gets cold at night, they gravitate toward the house where it’s warmer. The fall into the 6ft window wells and can’t get out - that’s why I’m curious about where that one went. There is only brick foundation on one side, metal wall on the others and 6ft of rocks that they can’t dig under without being crushed. I used to freak and have to get them out right away (see April Showers post) but I’ve realized that if I leave ‘em, they just die and then we scoop them out - cause a dead shrew stinks horribly! We should start getting truck loads in the coming weeks as the meteorologists predict the fall cold moving in for good tonight…
I’m still not 100% that they are shrews - maybe moles - although I’m not finding mole hills all over my lawn that would indicate moleville…
October 3rd, 2005 at 7:29 pm
OK, I read April Showers- and shrews are totally disgusting creatures.
I once had a rat infestation following a particularly rainy season a few years back. At first I tried catching them in humane traps and releasing them in a canyon. There were just too many of them to keep up.
Next I tried the dehydrated preditor pee route. I hired an organic pest control company that only uses natural products to get rid of varmints. So they sprinkled coyote pee, lion pee, fox pee and bobcat pee. Do you know what the rats did? They walked right over the pee through the attic into the house! I think the pee thing is vastley over rated, expensive and pretty unsanitary.
My final solution? I got a few more cats. Now I am rat free.
Sounds like shrews are even worse than rats. Do you leave shrew traps out?
October 3rd, 2005 at 9:23 pm
I’m pretty sure the mean one ate the nice one. That’s how it usually goes in the animal kingdom. They probably went crazy trapped in the well and all….it’s kind of like that show LOST.
October 3rd, 2005 at 10:12 pm
Dore’: It appears that our window wells are shrew traps. We have 2 cats - maybe we need a third…?
Jen: the mean one is dead now too - of natural causes, I guess! Unless it had a heart attack if a cat played around with it… But Snickers is the only hunter. She brought me a mouse a few weeks ago. I was busy at the computer and ignored her meowing - until she started repeatedly tossing something thumpy into the air… cute big ears, chubby face and body - dead as a bean bag.
October 3rd, 2005 at 11:36 pm
Given your shrew population you might want to consider about 6 very big cats.
October 5th, 2005 at 8:59 am
I think it was the shrew mofia personally.
October 5th, 2005 at 11:56 pm
Aww…their cute!? That’s sad! I couldn’t even have mouse traps cause it was too devastating to see them in the trap.
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