shrew trouble. please help!

so, i went out to peek a look at the veg this evening to find a little fat shrew rolling around on the plot having a right old laugh . on approaching it, it dug under the soil around my cabbage seedlings and dissapeared. looking around i see a hole on the border of my plot with a tunnel of soil around my veg!

could anyone give me some more information on these little critters?

are they there to wreck my hardwork?

is it fair to seek revenge and kill?

any advice/information would be much appreciated.

thankyou,
Rob :D

 

They do dig tunnels, but they actually eat insects and worms etc, not plants.

 

thanks for the reply.

so they are a helpful nuisance then lol.

 

turns out it wasn't a shrew. it was a mole. we've caught 3 so far, but theres been no sign of any since so maybe thats it :D

 

How did you catch those moles Wickyd?
I'm sure lots of people would love to know.

 

we planted some mole traps but these didn't kill them. We found one dead in the barn which the cat killed, the mini poodle had one in its mouth so we released it, the other was led dead on saturday morning inbetween two spinach plants. i can only imagine it ate some slug pellets because there is no other explanation. So, it was all down to luck really! lol