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.
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Where are the cats ?
Get Bill Gates on the case.
He’ll devise some way to euthanize the mice.
They are shooting feral cats in Australia.
The competition for food must be intense. Drowning traps would help.
Those dirty rats...err, mice.
Won’t the Chinese eat them?
A couple cents each to export them and these farmers would do quite well for themselves...
I’ve been travelling Queensland and NSW for the last 2 months and havnt seen a mouse.
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.
LOL @ that first one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsgX-Zu6BNI&ab_channel=HenryNoel
They all came down with Covid-19 and one out of every seven hundred succumbed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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