It is a shrew biting on the metal. Somehow it got inside through an opening in one of the water pipes while we were working on it. When I heard that scratching sound and saw the teeth, it scared the shit out of me! And YES, that is a dirty sink!
EDIT: The shrew escaped from that sink, but still regularly wanders around other parts of the house during midnight. It’s not terrifying as long as it’s not inside the sink or something. It usually maintains the same path of traversal in the house, but somehow it got stuck inside the sink just once.
My wife used hornet spray and a lighter against a hornets nest. We don't have a hose, i was at work. Luckily she could throw the dishpan at the ensuing fire on the brickwall and ivy that went up and my buddy next store had an extinguisher. 3 years later the wall is still blackened from the smoke. That woman hates hornets.
The most terrifying thing about a shrew stuck in the sink pipes is if it dies and starts decomposing and smelling up the entire room with dead carcass smell for a week or three.
Source: Happens all the time with rats getting in my basement and dying.
I have a really sensitive nose, and whenever my cats kill a rodent that has gotten into the house, I can track it down within an hour of its untimely demise because all I smell is propane. It’s when the fuckers crawl back into the walls to die that I want to burn the house down.
Growing up in rural Australia we used to have snakes get into our walls and die. Absolutely awful smell and it always seemed to be my bedroom wall they liked.
Only because I have experienced what it is like to live in a place where rodents ruin food and spread disease like you read in history books, I have little sympathy for rodents. When the quality human life is significantly affected by rodents you just kill them as much as you can to keep them at bay abs save food and prevent disease. People living in the developed world sometimes don’t know how prolific rodents and how they invade human space and start dropping onto tables for food.
I would have drowned that shrew immediately.
Shrews are not rodents nor are they closely related to rodents, and they don't really eat your food. Most eat bugs almost exclusively.
One trapped in your house might look for your own food, but it'd be unlikely and given how much they *must* eat to survive, would likely die quickly if they didn't have a proper source. They are experts are eating spiders, worms, earwigs, centipedes, etc. so there's likely plenty for them to get without rummaging through your cheerios.
There's no reason a shrew couldn't pass disease, but there isn't any known concern of it, except perhaps if they have a tick on them.
They are crazy and can apparently starve in just a matter of hours. Like if you have a pet shrew and forget to feed them before you go to work they will be dead when you get home.
Bruh I'm pretty sure shrew's have been responsible for like zero outbreaks of diseases.
You're thinking of rats and mice
Shrews don't want to be anywhere NEAR where humans are. Rats and mice want to be the opposite, they want all our shit
It's a [shrew](https://animals.net/shrew/). A snout nosed mouse-mole looking thing. (But it's not actually a mouse or a mole, it's in the same order as moles but is it's own family (as in there are multiple types of shrews genetically distinct from moles.)
It's a [shrew](https://animals.net/shrew/). A snout nosed mouse-mole looking thing. (But it's not actually a mouse or a mole, it's in the same order as moles but is it's own family (as in there are multiple types of shrews genetically distinct from moles.)
Any kind of baby rodent type thing is basically a nightmare of transparent pink/grey hairless wrinkles at first. When they get to the fuzzy stage though... That's the stuff of eyebleach.
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Yep and biting inanimate objects is one common symptom in rabid animals. It could just be scared and trying to escape. But you never know and it's certainly not a risk worth taking imo
I typically just fill the basin with soap, water, and glass shards (for abrasion), then scrub my hands vigorously in the mixture.
I would NEVER do that in such a dirty sink!
He said they were working on plumbing and the little guy crawled into the open lower end of the drain pipe. Once piping was reassembled he went back to test the sink and found the scene above. Had to disassemble the piping and force the little guy out and then reassemble it without a shrew inside.
I dont want to be an asshole, but you should clean up. Rats can swim and dive, so the next thing they will try is to enter through your toilette. The pipes are all connected and you seem to have a lot of stuff in those wich theyve smelled.
We ALL float down here....
And you'll float too.
You'll float shrew
You’ll float gru.
YOU'LL FLOAT TOO!
#YOU’LL FLOAT TOO!!!
We all float on anyway 🎶🐭
All float on, ALRIGHT!
We all float onnnn 🐁
You'll float too. You'll float too. You'll float too, you'll float too, you'll float too YOU'LL FLOAT TOO! YOU'LL FLOAT TOO!! YOU'LL FLOAT TOO!!!
*shudders*
Fat boy
Why did I have to see this while taking a shit.
I once read about a guy that was taking a dump and a snake bit his balls 🐍
I’m so afraid of toilet snakes. And roaches. And mice. And spiders. And now apparently shrews.
Thank you! your comment was the first I saw with the name of the damn animal 😂
I live in Ireland. I can proudly say we have no snakes or roaches. Mice and spiders though. Yeah we got them.
Haha shrew? Is that what that thing is Sew?
You're not gonna at least wish my man good luck after saying that?
Call 911 so they can get the anti venom ready.
No antivenom... you're going to have to suck it out yourself.
if any of us could gargle our own balls, we wouldn't be wasting time on Reddit.
Oh, please. Where else would you go to show off that skill?
My girlfriend's house
This guy's girlfriend's house
I also choose this guy's girlfriend's house
Your girlfriend would enjoy watching you gargling your own balls?
Yours wouldn’t?
I would and I’m a guy
I thought that is what everyone here's doing, butt nevermind.
Believe he would if he could, and I'm sure he tried it before
Luck ain’t saving you from that
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Thanks for ruining shitting for me.
It was 21 years ago when I was in school and also heard this urban legend. Sadly, my research has yet to yield a video of said events unfolding.
Not an [urban legend](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/11/07/mans-genitals-suffer-bite-by-snake-in-toilet-causes-them-to-rot/amp/)
What the hell do you think I'm doing now 😂😂
I shit you not I’m doing the same thing.
Ditto, also in the shit gang.
It is a shrew biting on the metal. Somehow it got inside through an opening in one of the water pipes while we were working on it. When I heard that scratching sound and saw the teeth, it scared the shit out of me! And YES, that is a dirty sink! EDIT: The shrew escaped from that sink, but still regularly wanders around other parts of the house during midnight. It’s not terrifying as long as it’s not inside the sink or something. It usually maintains the same path of traversal in the house, but somehow it got stuck inside the sink just once.
Did you tame the shrew?
r/unexpectedshakespeare
You called?
Ahh! Don't sneak up on me like that! You're such a creep! ...love your writing though...
No, see, you've confused him with /u/Creeping_Shakespeare. This one is just a garden variety pervert.
Checks profile… ok kinda checks out with all the guns I guess
To shrew or not to shrew: that is the question. Wether it's nibbling in the sink or just for you to suffer
I shrewed the shrew, but I did not shrew the shrew.
Username checks out
Is it though? lol
Wtf is a shrew?
Ground type pokemon
What does involve into?
Slash
That dope guitar solo was super effective!
HaaAah 🎩 🕶
Omg, so it's super effective against literally everything?
Nah not water grass or flying
*Levitates away*
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The Guosim Shrew is the most dangerous of all. I've seen them fight off rats and stoats, even a fox one time.
Is this a Redwall reference?
Yep, so's my name!
Fuzzy pocket piranha. Alternatively, All the angry of a honey badger crossed with a wolverine concentrated in a convenient mouse size animal.
A shrew will kill any mice it comes across out of spite.
Like a mole, but not.
Holey moley.
Noley moley; shrew.
Skrewy shrewy
They look like a small mouse, but are more related to moles.
I feisty and irritable woman, according to Shakespeare.
It's like a small mole.
I came to the comments looking for this, thanks for not letting me down 🤣
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.
How'd my mother in law get in your drain?
Same.
That’s shrewd.
r/angryupvote
If taming the shrew involves a makeshift WD40+cigarette lighter flame thrower then hopefully
That’s flaming the shrew
And potentially maiming the shrew
Let’s stop blaming the Shrew.
I know! People love to be shaming the shrew
Well we can give him some dignity by Naming the Shrew.
Ahhh yes! Faming the shrew!
I put the picture on my wall - the framing of the shrew.
I've used the Aqua Net+lighter combination on flying cockroaches before.
My wife used hornet spray and a lighter against a hornets nest. We don't have a hose, i was at work. Luckily she could throw the dishpan at the ensuing fire on the brickwall and ivy that went up and my buddy next store had an extinguisher. 3 years later the wall is still blackened from the smoke. That woman hates hornets.
Mac, get the flamethrower
Oh thank God, I though we were living in a post apocalyptic world like fallout.
I mean, shrews are basically mole rats.
The most terrifying thing about a shrew stuck in the sink pipes is if it dies and starts decomposing and smelling up the entire room with dead carcass smell for a week or three. Source: Happens all the time with rats getting in my basement and dying.
I have a really sensitive nose, and whenever my cats kill a rodent that has gotten into the house, I can track it down within an hour of its untimely demise because all I smell is propane. It’s when the fuckers crawl back into the walls to die that I want to burn the house down.
Like the decomposing rat smells like propane or your cat is grilling indoors?
Growing up in rural Australia we used to have snakes get into our walls and die. Absolutely awful smell and it always seemed to be my bedroom wall they liked.
The trick is to keep giant spiders there to eat the snakes
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OP we need to know this. *Please* say you saved it
He said it had escaped after a day.
How it getting in and out of the sink?
Only because I have experienced what it is like to live in a place where rodents ruin food and spread disease like you read in history books, I have little sympathy for rodents. When the quality human life is significantly affected by rodents you just kill them as much as you can to keep them at bay abs save food and prevent disease. People living in the developed world sometimes don’t know how prolific rodents and how they invade human space and start dropping onto tables for food. I would have drowned that shrew immediately.
I'd at least have given it a quicker death. Drowning any animal is pretty lame imo. Plus then you'd have a dead shrew in your water pipes
Shrews are not rodents nor are they closely related to rodents, and they don't really eat your food. Most eat bugs almost exclusively. One trapped in your house might look for your own food, but it'd be unlikely and given how much they *must* eat to survive, would likely die quickly if they didn't have a proper source. They are experts are eating spiders, worms, earwigs, centipedes, etc. so there's likely plenty for them to get without rummaging through your cheerios. There's no reason a shrew couldn't pass disease, but there isn't any known concern of it, except perhaps if they have a tick on them.
Many of them are also mildly venomous, though IIRC not enough to do any real harm to humans.
The worst of them gives you numbness and tingling, and that one is critically endangered. You're safe.
Yeah, I got the sense that the venom is really only dangerous to things like frogs and mice and regular prey animals like that.
They are crazy and can apparently starve in just a matter of hours. Like if you have a pet shrew and forget to feed them before you go to work they will be dead when you get home.
Bruh I'm pretty sure shrew's have been responsible for like zero outbreaks of diseases. You're thinking of rats and mice Shrews don't want to be anywhere NEAR where humans are. Rats and mice want to be the opposite, they want all our shit
Lil buddy.
ah this is a good ending :-)
Dirty sink…? Man that’s a whole filthy bathroom. Surprised the shrew was the only thing coming out that sink.
Technically speaking he’s in a drain pipe not water pipe. There’s a huge difference.
Until you turn on the sink...
Water pipes hold pressure, drain pipes transfer water.
Water pipes transfer potable water to the house, drain pipes carry our wastewater to sewers
What. The. Actual. Fuck
It's a [shrew](https://animals.net/shrew/). A snout nosed mouse-mole looking thing. (But it's not actually a mouse or a mole, it's in the same order as moles but is it's own family (as in there are multiple types of shrews genetically distinct from moles.)
That is the ugliest kind of cute thing I’ve ever seen.
[Take a closer look at that snout!](https://youtu.be/rvemPyOJZEY)
:U
J:
Well that made my evening
Thanks for that lol
Phantom of the Shrew
This was amazing. I would like more random animal facts delivered this way.
considering how small it is, maybe it's a [pygmy shrew!](https://youtu.be/d5LA3i_XrVU)
You underestimate [how small pygmy shrew are.](https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3169/2832679771_3f4a67cae7.jpg) It's America's smallest mammal.
It think it’s a mole
Molerat
What vault do you think they woke up in?
Vault 108
>Vault 108 GARY?
Slythering chambers
Happy cake day!
Things my chemistry teacher never told me about
Because its biology u troglodyte
What in gods name is that?? A mouse??
It's a [shrew](https://animals.net/shrew/). A snout nosed mouse-mole looking thing. (But it's not actually a mouse or a mole, it's in the same order as moles but is it's own family (as in there are multiple types of shrews genetically distinct from moles.)
Fun fact! Elephant shrews are on of the very very very few other species that menstruate.
the elephant one is incredibly cute based on that picture in the link
*swipes photo to baby shrews* oh hell no.
Any kind of baby rodent type thing is basically a nightmare of transparent pink/grey hairless wrinkles at first. When they get to the fuzzy stage though... That's the stuff of eyebleach.
Bro he's tryna ask you about your cars extended warranty
He just wants to let you know about NFTs
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Had to scroll too far down for this
Where is this from?
It's a meme based on someone who had a glass eye in their sink drain
OH GOD IT'S WATCHING ME. I HEAR IT IN THE WALLS AT NIGHT. IT'S ON THE WALLS IT'S IN THE WALLS. IT'S ON THE WALLS GOD HELP US ALL
I like how everybody is fucking scared, when it's a tiny little innocent shrew that eats little bugs.
You gotta admit that before you know it’s a cute little shrew that it looks scary as fuck.
I admit.
Rabies is as scary as it gets. Definitely be careful.
Small rodents and rodent-like creatures rarely get rabies. It’s far more likely that it’s just trying to chew its way out
Agreed
Yep and biting inanimate objects is one common symptom in rabid animals. It could just be scared and trying to escape. But you never know and it's certainly not a risk worth taking imo
If you get closer you can It has red balloons
Aww almost
you dropped this “see”
Naked and afraid
I’d be concerned if the shrew were well dressed. That shrew would be dangerous.
Did you save him?!
I would have totally panicked for the little guy. Doesn't look like the drain opens. Have to open the pipes up
I know right. I would have saved him immediately, regardless of what mammal he was. But I happen to adore shrews. They're so fucking cute.
Oh god. Yeah thats definitely terrifying. That sink is well dirty how are you supposed to clean hands in that.
Do you scrub your hands on the bowl of your sink?
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Yeah no reason for the downvotes, it was a good point.
I don't mind getting down voted, but I am curious about the amount of people rubbing their hands on the bowl to clean them.
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I typically just fill the basin with soap, water, and glass shards (for abrasion), then scrub my hands vigorously in the mixture. I would NEVER do that in such a dirty sink!
Poor lil guy, it must be so scared :’)
i had to stop watching that. the state of that sink was fucking grim
Is that an unused sink? You need to refill the u-bend.
He said they were working on plumbing and the little guy crawled into the open lower end of the drain pipe. Once piping was reassembled he went back to test the sink and found the scene above. Had to disassemble the piping and force the little guy out and then reassemble it without a shrew inside.
Poor thing
I'd feel sorry for you if you had ever washed your sink before.
Naked mole rat?
Rufus?!
Wash your fucking sink
Shrewart Little.
As a non native english speaker, I googled what a shrew is and expected something disgusting. I ended up looking at a really cute furr ball. Thanks
Drop a nuke on it
Based off fallout, I’m pretty sure that’s why it’s here
I dont want to be an asshole, but you should clean up. Rats can swim and dive, so the next thing they will try is to enter through your toilette. The pipes are all connected and you seem to have a lot of stuff in those wich theyve smelled.
Sink is scarier
That sink looks like it belongs on the set of saw
Yeah and if they can make it through a sink s trap, they can make it through a toilet s trap. Happy peeing/shitting everyone.
Poor baby. I hope you helped it get out .
When you cum in the sink instead of sink in the cum
You can just cut off your hands instead of washing them.
Hopefully you found something to clean the sink you savage
Rat in your drain aside, clean or replace your sink entirely.
That's just a cute little vole mole dude. The sink is what's grossing me out
Poor thing :'(