Look what I found, but what is it?

[4390evans]

I left thdm to freeze in the pot of hay I put them.in origionally :/ I just didnt look at them. Suppose ignorance is bliss sometimes eh.

I brought the shrews in for the day and night thinking they were to little etc etc, they had my life! Some how 2 jumped out and were running up.and down.my kitchen for what seemed forever! The next day I put them out under a carpet I have put over plants I want dead so hopefully.they will be ok, thdy seemed quite robust little critters

[jackarmy]

Does this help you decide?
A female rat can mate as many as 500 times with various males during a six-hour period of receptivity—a state she experiences about 15 times per year. Thus a pair of brown rats can produce as many as 2,000 descendants in a year if left to breed unchecked. (A rat matures sexually at age three to four months.) An average rat's life span is two to three years.

Whoa, girl power at its best

[PBline]

I "commiserate". 2 years ago, I threw all sort of goodies to find out what ran under my edge,made galleries and holes in flower beds and climbed shrubs. Lovely tiny rodent feeding on bread,fruit ,etc, often raised on 2 paws. Problem, it had a big family and invited its clan on the terrasse.
I had to get rid of the pest (sort of corn field mice) by giving them poisoned wrapped squares only attractive to rat&mice.Not a painful death,so as not to convey the message to other rats (internal hemmorraghia) Shrews are nice and useful.
Before my dog chopped it as it passed in front of his basket, I also have had a discreet resident for months: a single field mouse, lodging behind a heavy piano( folding itself in a rectangle).I often saw it cross the living room at night and disappear!

[janzbro]

The shrews appear to be fully grown to me , just let them go in the garden