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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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To: Inyo-Mono

I remember back in the 1970s, Australia was paying foreigners to come and kill rabbits.
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Did Australia offer to pay for the ammo? Didn’t think so!


41 posted on 05/15/2021 4:14:06 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (China and Russia are dangerously emboldened by the Biden regime.)
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To: null and void

I wouldn’t eat takeout in Australia for a while...


42 posted on 05/15/2021 4:14:13 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Rebelbase

Look like the Democrats are going wild in this clip!


43 posted on 05/15/2021 4:15:57 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (China and Russia are dangerously emboldened by the Biden regime.)
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To: BrexitBen

Pound for pound, feral cats are the most voracious predators on the planet.
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For sure. Yet the odd thing is, I’ve never seen a feral cat in the forest in over 60 years of hunting, camping, fishing, and hiking. NOT ONE CAT, other than pets in woods that are close to houses. WEIRD!


44 posted on 05/15/2021 4:22:59 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (China and Russia are dangerously emboldened by the Biden regime.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I hate mice’s to pieces...


45 posted on 05/15/2021 4:28:34 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
”a mouse plague”

To be followed by a cat plague, then a plague of cat videos on YouTube.

46 posted on 05/15/2021 4:38:27 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is the last legally elected U.S. President.)
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To: Rebelbase; 11th_VA

Yes, on the grounds that the cats were killing native Australian wildlife... Well, turns out the cats were keeping the mice in check.

Killing cats got us the Black Plague. Not a great idea.


47 posted on 05/15/2021 4:43:35 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Being Australian I have a bunch of cousins down there and I get a slew of cat videos already..


48 posted on 05/15/2021 6:08:38 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“The mice have eaten all the insulation in our air conditioning systems. They’ve eaten wires out of the roof of the school, they’ve eaten parts of the power board in the principal’s residence.””

They had that problem on cars too, in the US. Rodents would eat the soy-based insulation off of wires. Oh well, I guess trying to end our ‘addiction’ to petroleum-based products is far more important...


49 posted on 05/15/2021 6:24:18 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: 11th_VA

Australia tried that and then they wound up with a huge amount of feral cats everywhere, who ate all the mice, but now where killing all the song birds and small marsupials.

And they just don’t have plagues of mice.

Periodically, they have huge plagues of:

Dingoes mixed with feral dogs
Feral cats
Foxes
Rabbits
Hogs
Toads

There’s no balance once placental animals arrived.


50 posted on 05/15/2021 6:38:43 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: BobL
They had that problem on cars too, in the US. Rodents would eat the soy-based insulation off of wires. Oh well, I guess trying to end our ‘addiction’ to petroleum-based products is far more important...

I parked my car in the driveway for a while - and squirrels ate the insulation off the wires twice. A little more than $600 to repair it each time... The car's still under warranty but they said that problem isn't covered. Nice to know the real reason it happened - - car manufacturers going 'green' on our dime...If it happens again can the wires be replaces with the old style wires?

51 posted on 05/15/2021 6:39:47 AM PDT by GOPJ (The world's thugs kicking sand in Biden's face. None of 'em are afraid of him. It's gonna get worse)
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To: GOPJ

Wow, you got off easy for $600. Eat up enough of the wiring and the car could easily be totaled, due to the labor involved with restringing the wires.

As to your question. The likely answer is yes, BUT, you’d have to build up the harness yourself, or have a shop do it. And if you can’t get the design drawing for the harness, you’d have to buy one to use as a template*. As for being sure that your new wire is not soy-based, I’m not sure how to tell, but there are probably ways to do so.

*although if I were doing it, I’d use the connectors off of the templates with a short amount of wire hanging off (maybe 2 inches, at most) and splice to the non-edible wire at that point. You just need to be sure that your splices are solid and don’t pull apart.


52 posted on 05/15/2021 7:14:16 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: BobL

The dealership is seeing more of this problem... It’s common enough that Amazon has a ‘squirrel spray for car wires.

Green on our dime is going to bite these American car companies... Never had this happen with my old Honda.

Thanks for the suggestions...


53 posted on 05/15/2021 7:31:06 AM PDT by GOPJ (The world's thugs kicking sand in Biden's face. None of 'em are afraid of him. It's gonna get worse)
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To: GOPJ

You’re welcome, and good luck!


54 posted on 05/15/2021 7:34:17 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: gundog

That design is so old I remember seeing it in magazines sixty years ago.

It works!


55 posted on 05/15/2021 7:37:40 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: Berlin_Freeper

They should buy this mouse trap.
Www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYLhXuLavx4


56 posted on 05/15/2021 8:27:45 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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