A severe mouse plague is overwhelming towns north-east of Perth, with residents describing roads covered in mice and infestations in homes and businesses.
Locals and farmers say current baits are ineffective and are calling for urgent approval to use stronger rodent poisons — a bureaucratic process that is dragging on.
The local MP says in the meantime, people are leaving town.
Aren’t there supposed to be tons of feral cats in Australia? Or did the rodent poisons kill them off?
It’ll be fine. We’ll introduce snakes to kill the excess cats. Then we’ll release mongeese to take care of the excess snakes. Then we’ll use hawks for the mongoose. And then we just all move underground to avoid all the killer hawks.
There are too many feral cats but people really underestimate how bad a mouse plague is.
Literally 10s of millions of mice. Cats won’t even make a dent.
Feel like you just need more cat
Dingos and quolls would be a better option.
Unfortunately we don’t have many endemic predators in Australia.
Also domestic and feral Canis Lupus Familaris in urban areas would dilute the gene pool of Canis Lupus Dingo, which isn’t great either.
And Dasyurus Geoffroii are also vulnerable to Canis Lupus Familaris and larger feral Felis Catus.