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Yes, we have another one! :) I spent quite some time following this little guy around the kitchen, today. (It doesn't make me feel too good about our housekeeping that he found things to eat all over the place - I could hear him munching something crunchy under Eor's desk.) I got literally, easily, close enough to touch him, when I got him to eat a piece of cheese, and I scrunched right down and tried to get eye-level with him, trying to make absolutely sure he didn't have rodent teeth - because even if it's a blind mouse, I don't want a mouse. And he IS pretty much blind. At one point he came right up and nosed my shoe! My ginormous foot lifting up was something he could see, as was the flash on the camera, but he reacted almost as much or more to the sound of the camera - the little whine it makes as you turn it on or zoom in - than he did to the flash.
(Please try to ignore how dirty the baseboard is, here. It's really not an area you can see unless you're chasing a very small creature. Well, I'm nearsighted. But, yeah, I guess we're not really doing as well on housekeeping right now as we were while the condo was for sale.)
And this one is just for size-reference. Do you even see him? Even with tail, less than five inches, I think. (And yes, that tiny, dark gap at the bottom of the dishwasher is his vast doorway, where all the cobwebs are, in the other picture.)
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Last time we had a shrew it ate corn chips with peanut butter on them, but possibly it only ate the peanut butter because it was ON the corn chips, because this shrew has ignored cashew butter in favour of real cashews, cranberries, and cheese. But even when it ate some cheese it went foraging all around the kitchen for other things.
On that evening forage Eor got a good look at it, and he's almost as charmed as I am. Or possibly he's delighted with the fact that I'm charmed, I'm not sure. :) As a general rule he doesn't believe that wild animals belong in his house, but where it IS scavenging bits of chips he's dropped beneath his desk and hasn't been able to get at (it's not easy to clean, back there), well, he also sort of feels the dear has a purpose.
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Shrews can draw blood - or at least the English sort can - my girlfriend was bitten by one once, as she carried it out of the cats' way, and claimed she'd lost so much blood she was hypo-vole-aemic. And then nearly died laughing at her own pun.
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Not only can they draw blood, I have read that they have a poison in their saliva, which lets them kill animals their size or larger (I believe it's a paralytic). On an animal as big as a human it usually just makes the bite spot hurt more than usual, and sometimes itch. But maybe also makes it bleed more than usual! Which is why, regardless of having gotten my face like a foot a way from this little dear, I did NOT attempt to touch him. ;)
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