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Re: Photo Phriday 155 - Shrews [Re: Gulo] #8250982
11/01/24 05:40 PM
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One year I had to stop trapping mink. every mink was chewed up by shrews. I posted on here about it somebody told me to make my mink traps on willow so they shoot up in the air when caught. It was a good idea but i never tried it.

Re: Photo Phriday 155 - Shrews [Re: Gulo] #8251130
11/01/24 07:49 PM
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Is there such a think as water shrews? I have caught several of something like that in my underwater mink boxes?????? I don't know what they were


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Re: Photo Phriday 155 - Shrews [Re: Gulo] #8251201
11/01/24 08:49 PM
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yes their name is Sorex palustris quite common around waterways, caught during muskrat trapping, and they chew into trapped animals starting usually at the face.
Caught in submarine muskrat traps if using 1/3 inch mesh size. Size of a meadow vole but the long nose is a give-away. Have caught one that did have a tick on it, but cant remember species of tick ( was a Ixodes spp)

Re: Photo Phriday 155 - Shrews [Re: Gulo] #8251273
11/01/24 11:27 PM
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Summer 1996. Driving a boat up the Yuki River to rescue another boat. On a river bank was a pole set with a marten hanging in a trap. Trapper must have failed to close all his sets and had caught the marten. Drove over and grabbed the long dead animal. It was mostly hollow. Voles/shrews had chewed in thru the anus and dined on the insides. Legs and head had freeze dried. Took the marten and trap. Made for an interesting decoration!

Re: Photo Phriday 155 - Shrews [Re: Gulo] #8251435
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There was a time they closed down a Nuclear research station that had done long term study on the small mammals. There was 500 Sorex cinerous shrews in their freezers upon closer examination of the teeth over 200 were the pygmy shrew Micro sorex hoyi..now called Sorex hoyi. All were preserved as freeze dried as well......but with a pushed up snout to look at those sharp little teeth.

Re: Photo Phriday 155 - Shrews [Re: white17] #8251482
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Nothing around my house eat them they just rot.

Re: Photo Phriday 155 - Shrews [Re: white17] #8251497
11/02/24 09:57 AM
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Not true. Marten eat them when they can't catch voles.



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I call it "Retribution!" For all the trapped marten that shrews have ruined for me!

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Re: Photo Phriday 155 - Shrews [Re: Gulo] #8253579
11/04/24 04:27 PM
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Albino short tailed shrew.

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Re: Photo Phriday 155 - Shrews [Re: Gulo] #8253586
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JACK !!!! Have a look at Line Jumper's shrew he just caught ! Isn't that cool ?

Re: Photo Phriday 155 - Shrews [Re: Gulo] #8253725
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Super cool Albino


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Re: Photo Phriday 155 - Shrews [Re: Gulo] #8253821
11/04/24 07:58 PM
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I HARE SHREWS !

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