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Post by kerouac2 on May 26, 2021 17:34:23 GMT
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Post by casimira on May 26, 2021 18:30:06 GMT
I hope that people who are having this problem be sure and keep track of them not getting into the walls and ceilings etc. of their homes. I am sure that our fire was largely due to rodents, be it mice, rats, squirrels that were chewing on the wires despite measures to try and control them by every means possible.
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Post by lugg on May 26, 2021 19:22:36 GMT
I saw this earlier today - yikes. I think that Australians , probably quite rightly , are concerned about the harm to wildlife caused by domesticated cats. I wonder if this might change minds ?
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Post by questa on May 27, 2021 1:40:38 GMT
I was going to post this last night, but fell asleep!
Our usual mouse cycle starts in December, and when the cold nights start after the grain is in the silos, March/April the mice die off. This year started early and is not cold enough yet to kill them. Farmers usually have a few cats to keep the silos clean, but I've heard of cats just lying down with mice running over them.
Poor farmer has a bumper crop and it is now contaminated, can it be cleaned? probably sold at low price to processers.
Forget trying to mouse-proof your house, or electricity cables, forget trying to save the wild animals. As they munch their way across the landscape everything gets weird. I was watching an army of them crossing a field and climbing a sloping hill. It looked like the shadow of a cloud passing over, or better...like the birds that do swirling shape-changing co-ordinated flight spectacles.
The news today gave the mouse numbers as Fifty Billion. I think it has peaked. When the food is scarcer the cute li'l fellows eat each other. This is a sign that things are returning to normal, I hope it is soon. I was on a farm in Northern NSW during a plague...when the beasts go, there is still the stench, the shreds of vehicles' upholstery and furniture and the crunch of stepping on piles of droppings.
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Post by tod2 on May 27, 2021 11:42:25 GMT
I cant imagine how terrifying it could be. Just the few that ran around in my ceiling and invaded my grocery cupboard were a horror enough!
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Post by lugg on Jun 3, 2021 20:00:40 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 3, 2021 20:04:30 GMT
I didn't know that fish were among the 'stupid' animals who don't know when to stop eating.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 14, 2021 18:33:52 GMT
There was another report about the mouse problem on the French news tonight. Apparently the farmers want to use some really deadly poison that will also kill other animals. In the meantime...
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 15, 2021 10:56:31 GMT
Maybe they could smother the mice...
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 4, 2021 19:39:51 GMT
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