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Water shrews have venomous saliva, but cannot puncure the skin of large mammals, like humans. Watch out for water shrews!!!

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Water shrews are eaten by owls, kestrels, pike, stoats, weasels and mink but many carnivores find shrews distasteful and therefore tend to reject them.

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Shrews (small, mouse sized mammals) are not poisonous to cats. Although they may be poisonous to insects, shrews are not harmful to cats.

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