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Australia’s mouse plague: six months ago it was war, now whole towns have accepted their presence
theguardian.com ^ | May 14, 2021 | Matilda Boseley

Posted on 05/14/2021 8:49:32 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

When the mouse plague began in regional New South Wales and Queensland, residents spoke like generals in a war. It was all about strategy, setting the cleverest traps, fortifying houses to keep the enemy out and outsmarting the tiny creatures as they attacked wave after wave.

But, six months on, with rodent numbers surging again despite thousands of tonnes of poisons being deployed and devastating floods, conversations about mice have changed. They aren’t foes to be bested any more, they’re more like a giant dark cloud hovering over each town.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand
KEYWORDS: australia; china; mice; mouse
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1 posted on 05/14/2021 8:49:32 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Where are the cats ?


2 posted on 05/14/2021 8:53:34 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Et Tu Fox News ?)
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To: 11th_VA

Get Bill Gates on the case.

He’ll devise some way to euthanize the mice.


3 posted on 05/14/2021 8:56:02 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: 11th_VA

They are shooting feral cats in Australia.


4 posted on 05/14/2021 8:57:50 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The competition for food must be intense. Drowning traps would help.


5 posted on 05/14/2021 8:58:54 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Those dirty rats...err, mice.


6 posted on 05/14/2021 8:59:13 PM PDT by Signalman
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7 posted on 05/14/2021 8:59:18 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Won’t the Chinese eat them?

A couple cents each to export them and these farmers would do quite well for themselves...


8 posted on 05/14/2021 8:59:18 PM PDT by null and void (When you put bad people in charge expect bad things to happen, often in a spectacular and sudden way)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I’ve been travelling Queensland and NSW for the last 2 months and havnt seen a mouse.


9 posted on 05/14/2021 9:01:43 PM PDT by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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To: Berlin_Freeper; Fred Nerks; Byron_the_Aussie; melsec; naturalman1975; DieHard the Hunter; ...
DANG!
10 posted on 05/14/2021 9:02:56 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: Berlin_Freeper; SkyDancer
Of course, this HAS to be Australia.


11 posted on 05/14/2021 9:03:16 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I remember back in the 1970s, Australia was paying foreigners to come and kill rabbits. A friend and I almost went there as we had a lot of experience in rabbit hunting.


12 posted on 05/14/2021 9:06:04 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: DoodleBob

LOL @ that first one!


13 posted on 05/14/2021 9:11:37 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Berlin_Freeper
They're evolving into this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsgX-Zu6BNI&ab_channel=HenryNoel

14 posted on 05/14/2021 9:17:39 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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Where are the cats ?

They all came down with Covid-19 and one out of every seven hundred succumbed.

15 posted on 05/14/2021 9:19:27 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: 11th_VA

hiding if they value their lives. I’ve had good luck with glue traps but the Aussies are going to need a whole lot of glue traps

videos. the stuff of nightmares :
https://www.dw.com/en/australia-plague-of-mice-ravages-new-south-wales/a-56926480#:~:text=Local%20farmers%20captured%20skin-crawling%20clips%2C%20showing%20thousands%20of,homes%20and%20infesting%20the%20farmers%27%20bumper%20grain%20harvest.


16 posted on 05/14/2021 9:21:19 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: Rebelbase

You’re kidding? Kat Timpf, on Gutfeld!, said she brought her feral cat to a rat infested apartment, and rats disappeared. Something about feral cat scent disappears them.


17 posted on 05/14/2021 9:26:16 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I think the best bet would be to create something akin to an underground grain silo, with the top full of grain to attract mice, but once they enter they drop down into the empty lower part that is filled with carbon dioxide gas.

Large containers with CO2 or Nitrogen gas are known for quickly killing humans who climb down into them, as well as those thinking they can rescue those that passed out. Sometimes several of them die before the light dawns.

When the silo is full of dead mice, a large vacuum can be used to pump them directly into garbage trucks.


18 posted on 05/14/2021 9:35:35 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Poor kids are just as bright, just as talented, as white kids." - Joe Biden Aug 8, 2019)
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To: NetAddicted

We have two former feral cats living with us - they’ve wiped out the mice, moles, chipmunks and red squirrels. I watched one of them get away from a fisher two years ago - she runs like a gazelle.


19 posted on 05/14/2021 9:43:39 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The ONLY rodents, snakes, lizards... I see are dead ones. I have a small army that keeps them from my bed. They have a job to do, they know thier job and they are VERY good at it.


20 posted on 05/14/2021 9:50:07 PM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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