A plague of mice has been tormenting residents and farmers in Australia (you've been warned)

[IcyPeas]

A plague of mice has been tormenting residents and farmers for a number of weeks in Australia.

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[soothsayer]

1. Willard

[doc03]

2. A mouse can get pregnant 5 to 10 times a year with an

average litter of 6 to 8. Can you imagine that?

[Glorfindel]

3. How horrid!

I wonder if the terrible fires in the last couple of years has wiped out all their predators?

[IcyPeas]

9. see my reply in number 8. I don't know about the fires that

must've killed all kinds of animals.

[UpInArms]

4. That is horrifying

They carry some nasty diseases

Hantavirus being one of the worst

[Archae]

5. This isn't the first time...

Happens about every 10 years or so.

[Midnight Writer]

6. My little Rat Terrier would go crazy.

[Laffy Kat]

7. Yikes. Where are all of their natural predators? nt

[IcyPeas]

8. Australia wants to get rid of all its feral cats

they had a goal of culling 2 million feral cats (this is an old article). They kill too many of Australia's native birds/species.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/26/asia/feral-cats-australia-intl

[Laffy Kat]

10. What about dingoes? nt

[IcyPeas]

12. good question. I found this article from an Australian site

Dingoes are Australia’s only native canid and play an important role as an apex predator, keeping natural systems in balance.

The Dingo is Australia’s largest terrestrial carnivore, though it occasionally eats plants and fruits. They're opportunistic hunters, but will also scavenge food. The bulk of their diet is made up of meat: they eat kangaroos, wallabies, feral pigs, wombats, small mammals (rabbits, rodents), birds and lizards...

the Dingo is listed as Vulnerable to extinction under the International Union of Nature Conservation’s Red List of Threatened Species.

https://www.bushheritage.org.au/species/dingoes

[I_UndergroundPanther]

11. Australia wanted to murder a few million cats

As they called them pests and poisoned them.. the mice are the punishment from Bast.
Hail Bastet.

Btw same shit happened in the dark ages because they murdered cats.

Lesson don't murder cats.