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 ...
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!
I wouldn’t eat takeout in Australia for a while...
Look like the Democrats are going wild in this clip!
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!
I hate mice’s to pieces...
To be followed by a cat plague, then a plague of cat videos on YouTube.
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.
Being Australian I have a bunch of cousins down there and I get a slew of cat videos already..
“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...
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.
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?
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.
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...
You’re welcome, and good luck!
That design is so old I remember seeing it in magazines sixty years ago.
It works!
They should buy this mouse trap.
Www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYLhXuLavx4
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