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| I caught this little guy when I was moving some perennials.
Now I don't know what to do with him. Is it a shrew or a vole? I understand that voles eat lily roots. I don't like the sound of that. I put him in this bucket, but now what??? Help!!!
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| Let him go. |
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| You could dress him up. Tiny little hat, cute little pair of britches, maybe a little sweater? or you could let him go. Seriously, what else can you do? He's too darned cute to do the other thing. Kevin |
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| I sure as heck hope that you let it go. Shrews are extremely high energy animals with an almost constant feeding requirement. Keeping it for more than a couple of hours could result in its death. Seriously, you could have googled shrews and voles and had an identification in about one minute. You would have learned that you have a harmless shrew, an animal that some consider beneficial. |
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- Posted by nevermore44 (My Page) on Sun, Aug 5, 12 at 21:34
| One of those made its way into me garage a few years back. In my attempt to get him back out with a broom.. I had at one point held him against the wall with the broom. The tiny little thing let out the loudest screech... It shocked me and I dropped the broom. It was way too loud for such a small thing. The end. Now go let the poor guy go |
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| I vote with them.(Shrews eat slugs and snails and other things you don't want.) Jan |
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- Posted by stonethegardener Middlle GA (My Page) on Mon, Aug 6, 12 at 6:32
| Kill that horrible thing!!! Voles eat the roots of everything we want to keep. I go out to my garden, and find carrot tops in holes, echinacea tops in holes, bean plants in holes, dead gardenias with the roots all chewed up. Cute? I think not... Or... You can take it to the garden of the first person who advised you to release it... I sure don't want those things. |
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| Looks like a shrew to me. My cats love to eat voles. I watched one of them catch a vole and eat everything but the head. It was gross but kitty happily munched away. The cats will not eat shrews, though. Fast little buggers. I watched a shrew swim across a puddle one time trying(and succeeding)to get away from a cat. Never thought about them being able to swim. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Mon, Aug 6, 12 at 16:03
| disney screwed up generations of us ITs VERMIN .. get rid of it ken |
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- Posted by buyorsell888 Zone 8 Portland OR (My Page) on Mon, Aug 6, 12 at 18:18
| Looks like a short tailed shrew to me, not a vole. Perhaps release it in a natural area if you don't want it in your garden. They eat bugs though not plants. |
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