Heart rate? 1,500 beats per minute.
Breathing? 600 times a minute.
It eats twice its body weight daily just to stay alive.
Clicks to hunt. Whiskers as radar.
Jumps, darts, devours — all in the blink of an eye.
It may only live two years, but in that time, it’s a lightning bolt with teeth.
Tiny. Fierce. Unstoppable.
I wanted one of these as a pet, but the guide book I got from the library on taming shrews was not helpful.
It was pretty funny though.
Your comment made me smile, but also reminded me that this was a thing that I read before I ever heard of the original. I’ll admit that, in that context, the title never made sense to me.