Eeeek. I am not overly fond of mice anyway but the stink from so many must be stomach churning. The poor old Aussies seem to live in a 1970s horror movie. Perhaps the poisonous spiders in the toilets will face off against the mice, in an eliminator to meet the giant garden pythons in the final battle for control of the world.
I’m currently looking after my late uncle’s farm while probate on his will is being sorted out.
As he loved birds, I know he would have wanted me to do was drive over and feed them. Problem
is birds being messy eaters, they leave food for rats. The problem is now reaching Hamelinesque precautions and is difficult to resolve because every seemingly effective means of getting rid of the fuckers is either dangerous to other animals (I share the farm with pine martens and red squirrels) or effectively illegal.
We got one of those ‘humane’ mouse/rat traps. On the box it gave instructions that once caught we were to release the creature “as far away from your property as possible.” Looking on a map and having done a few calculations I reckon that would be Dunedin, NZ.
I don’t have the heart to hurt mice so always take them off the cats, put them in a tin and take them to the bottom of the garden where I let them go.
The fuckers at my late uncle’s cottage in the country are almost the size of cats.
They’ve also got so blasé about people since the property was left uninhabited that they’ve repurposed their rat runs and slowly sashay across agreeable pest promenades.
Up here we’ve had biblical amounts of rain (although NSW must have a more fundamentalist bible), but our local dam is at 36% and we’re heading for water rationing. Go figure, as they say…
Spiders, sharks, mice and crocs are comedy risks compared to floods and bush fires. Oh and politicians.
Australia floods: Thousands evacuated as downpours worsen https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-56476998
“When floods did kill off mice, it usually happened quickly. “Farmers talk about the mice disappearing virtually overnight,” the research officer said. “They get to such high numbers they become quite stressed … they start to run out of food, which facilitates the spread of disease, they start eating the sick ones, they turn on the babies, and then it’s all over. It’s quite a grizzly story.”
Jaygee says
Bible-sized vermin?
Not Good News.
Black Celebration says
Good News would be better than the King James version though.
Slug says
Eeeek. I am not overly fond of mice anyway but the stink from so many must be stomach churning. The poor old Aussies seem to live in a 1970s horror movie. Perhaps the poisonous spiders in the toilets will face off against the mice, in an eliminator to meet the giant garden pythons in the final battle for control of the world.
Moose the Mooche says
….you don’t work in the Japanese film industry, by any chance?
Jaygee says
I’m currently looking after my late uncle’s farm while probate on his will is being sorted out.
As he loved birds, I know he would have wanted me to do was drive over and feed them. Problem
is birds being messy eaters, they leave food for rats. The problem is now reaching Hamelinesque precautions and is difficult to resolve because every seemingly effective means of getting rid of the fuckers is either dangerous to other animals (I share the farm with pine martens and red squirrels) or effectively illegal.
pawsforthought says
We got one of those ‘humane’ mouse/rat traps. On the box it gave instructions that once caught we were to release the creature “as far away from your property as possible.” Looking on a map and having done a few calculations I reckon that would be Dunedin, NZ.
Moose the Mooche says
We’re rats. In a cage.
Suicide a-go-go….
Jaygee says
I don’t have the heart to hurt mice so always take them off the cats, put them in a tin and take them to the bottom of the garden where I let them go.
The fuckers at my late uncle’s cottage in the country are almost the size of cats.
They’ve also got so blasé about people since the property was left uninhabited that they’ve repurposed their rat runs and slowly sashay across agreeable pest promenades.
Kaisfatdad says
Yikes Junior! You have become like the Afterword’s answer of one of the more formidable Old Testament prophets.
Every week you have a new catastrophe or disaster for s, each more gory than the last.
It would be funny, were it not for the terrible hardships that your fellow Australian are suffering.
Heaven knows what Aussie moggies have to say about all this! Worked off their paws!
dai says
I know my bible. I think we are facing the end of the world as predicted in Revelations…
Moose the Mooche says
I know my bible too and think that everybody must get stoned.
dai says
You Gotta Serve Somebody …
Junior Wells says
Well it’s a big country. Haven’t seen a mouse in a long while.
NSW is in flood while I have a sprinkler on a parched garden.
Moose the Mooche says
That’s very poetic. I’m resisting the urge to hurr at your sprinkler.
If you will, the hurrge.
mikethep says
Up here we’ve had biblical amounts of rain (although NSW must have a more fundamentalist bible), but our local dam is at 36% and we’re heading for water rationing. Go figure, as they say…
Black Celebration says
It’s an enormous place. They’ve done a COVID era Amazing Race TV series – but just based in Queensland.
fitterstoke says
Surely the title of the OP is a long lost Hatfield and the North tune…
Moose the Mooche says
Arf!
retropath2 says
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/22/horrific-swarms-of-spiders-flee-into-homes-and-up-legs-to-escape-nsw-floods
garyjohn says
Spiders, sharks, mice and crocs are comedy risks compared to floods and bush fires. Oh and politicians.
Australia floods: Thousands evacuated as downpours worsen https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-56476998
Jaygee says
And yet they continue to call it the Lucky Country.
Dave Ross says
Floods you say…..
Billybob Dylan says
Look on the bright side. They’ve got a houseboat now.
retropath2 says
“When floods did kill off mice, it usually happened quickly. “Farmers talk about the mice disappearing virtually overnight,” the research officer said. “They get to such high numbers they become quite stressed … they start to run out of food, which facilitates the spread of disease, they start eating the sick ones, they turn on the babies, and then it’s all over. It’s quite a grizzly story.”
Well, that’s all right, then…….