Because it seems my workplace has become infested with them. One of them was sitting on my co-worker’s shoe, she heard a noise, looked down, and started screaming, while the poor little thing skittered in a panicky way all over the floor and under the door.
It’s come back 3 times since then, working its way along the wall and across the room. Meanwhile my two co-workers are squatting in their chairs and refusing to let their feet touch the floor.
I googled for information; Sherbert (we’re calling him Sherbert) looks just like this. And I did not know that shrews were venemous. I probably shouldn’t have read that part to my crew, that caused them to freak out even worse.
I think he’s cute, but I’ve never heard of them coming inside. Does anyone have any experience with this kind of thing?
Good Lord, I came into this thread expecting a rant about bitchy co-workers. :eek: If I saw one of those things under my SHOE, I think I’d be content to call it a rat and get the hell out of Dodge!
Wow, I’ve never even seen a shrew, let alone had one come to the office. Where do you live? What could be in your office that a shrew is into? High speed internet?
On my Board I posted in great detail of several encounters we had with shrews who decided to invade the house. They are fairly harmless critters, although they are a pest when in the house, as they’ll eat and shit and possibly carry parasites/etc. The absolute saddest thing about them is that they will indeed die of fright if you catch them, or sometimes if you just bother them too much (or at least the short-tailed ones we had would). They will squeak piteously, shake and tremble, then just…stop.
We had 5 shrews in the house and only managed to catch and release 3 without them dying of fright, as careful as we were. If you care about small wild animals, please be painfully careful trying to catch them, as the slightest upset could leave you with a pathetic scene of a small creature crying out then dying. If not, then, well, just about anything will kill them.
He charged at me! I was walking towards the paper shredder and he came pelting straight at me! Ballsy little thing. I read that they sometimes gang up on their prey, I’m lucky he didn’t have four or five friends with him or I’d’ve been toast.
Our maintenance guy is supposed to commence Opewation: Kill the Shwew-ew sometime today. I’ll miss them. It was funny watching my co-workers scream like little girls.
