41 Replies to “The Australian Mouse Problem”

  1. Much like rats, when our governments have killed us all they will still be here.

  2. Sure. Problem is, the next generation of mice will be descended from the mice with higher tolerance to rodenticide.

    VOWG: If rats inherit the earth after globalism self-destructs, it won’t be the most unlikely outcome.

        1. There’s a company in Flagstaff, AZ called Senestech. They have perfected a formula that will put any female mammal into menopause. They now have it in bait form that animals will eat. Only problem is that they are professors and have no idea how to market it or run a company.

          1. Sounds like the solution to Critical Race Theorists and academics everywhere. Send them all to Birkenstock Land.

    3. Oozing couch, guess you never bin to central america, rats as big as my cat roam free down there, butt then as usual you are full of SHIT

      1. You must have been reading my mind. I was thinking of all the ‘solutions’ introduced to Australia while thinking of hoards of Chihuahuas chasing Kangaroos and killed koalas.

    5. Rodenticide tolerance is not going to be much of a problem, because the vast majority of mice in the vast majority of mouse-generations are killed by natural causes.

      Despite the use of poisoned bait to protect crops, plagues like this end across most of the landscape when cold, wet weather floods burrows and the occupants die of pneumonia. We’ve seen it enough times before.

      The weather kills more mice than anything else. Normally, weather, food scarcity and predators keep small rodents within certain limits. Occasionally mild weather and plentiful food supplies allow mice to breed at a rate that predators cannot hope to emulate, and a plague occurs.

      Mouse and rat-hunts with terriers are immense fun – like dogs, we are “pack hunters” and respond emotionally to the enthusiasm of others.
      https://youtu.be/kFm7yeioqfY

  3. I thought Australia had lots of Venomous spiders, snakes and other critters to take care of the vermin file.

    1. What do you think the mice are eating? Everthing they can, including these sources of protein. Yes, there’s lots of poisonous things there, but are they fast and do they recognize that mice want them for dinner in time to bite/sting?

      And what natural predators do mice have there? Australians must have learned something since the toad and rabbit debacles.

    2. I’m told the mice are so numerous at certain times that in the colder areas of Australia they have been known to find snakes hibernating (actually just going semi-dormant into a state called “brumation”) underground in the winter months and have eaten them alive.

  4. That’s definitely not Mickey’s clubhouse. But a whole lotta Mickey’s got clubbed.

    1. Wolves, before we culled them. Ever checked dried wolf poop in the bush? It wasn’t all big game. At -40 to -60 you don’t turn down a few snacks on the run.

    2. I tried that on some of the ant colonies on the lot I inherited with my house. It takes too long for something to happen, plus that combination will harm dogs and birds should they ingest any of it.

      I also heard that a bit of gasoline is quite effective and I tried it a few times. The ants quickly get the message and they get out in a hurry.

        1. Har har….. A slug of gasoline poured onto the colony has proven to be quite effective as an eviction notice.

        2. The ant hill acts like a wick. Wait a minute, then throw a match at it. I have done it in the past with no problems.

  8. How would you clean all the dead mice up? How do you get them out of the vehicles?

    Broom? Shopvac? Shovel?

    I heard they had a huge mouse problem for almost a year now in NSW Australia. I think I even dropped a link in a reader’s tip a few weeks ago? Imagine having to live in amongst millions of hungry mice?

    1. That’s what I wondered too. You don’t want to leave a bunch of dead mice bodies laying around to decompose. Yuck!

      1. Ever smelled dead, decomposing mouse? I almost destroyed a wellsite trailer kitchen to get at the dead mice stuck under the stove and fridge, to clean out the stench, so the place was livable.

  9. A little off topic but close enough. Here’s a Jimmy Carr line:

    “What’s the worst thing about getting bitten by a poisonous spider?”

    Answer: “You’re probably Australian!”

  10. That’s what the Enterprise looked like after they finally got a handle on their tribble problem.

    Around here it’s gypsy moths that are denuding the trees. Between them and the emerald ash borers, it’s been quite a spring here for dismal looking forests.

    1. That’s what the Enterprise looked like after they finally got a handle on their tribble problem.

      Actually, Scotty beamed the tribbles into the engine room of the Klingon cruiser. Both the tribbles and the Klingons disliked each other.

      As for trees, birches in the Peace River block are dying because of some sort of beetle. I had two of them taken down at the house I inherited. The bark was covered with black pits where the critter bored into it.

      It turns out I wasn’t the only one with the problem. Several of my neighbours in Fort St. John used to have birches on their respective properties and those trees are now either landfill chips or firewood.

      1. Are you recommending poisoned quadrotriticale for the mice? That’s what got the tribbles on K7.

  15. they should just set up a golfing drive competition to see whop can send a mouse the farthest.

  16. Cautionary note: zinc phosphide works well on rodents, but the bait can kill horses, dogs and cats that ingest it, and the poisoned rodent carcasses can also poison dogs and cats that find and eat them. Watch your disposal methods.

  17. This is what Tiannemen square wouId have Iooked Iike if the footage had been reIeased. Another creature besides mice though……but what the heck, we need our cheap shoes.

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