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"Food spoilage" is putting it mildly. Mice have short generations. A single mouse can have up to ten litters in one year. If unchecked, a mouse population will
by rags2riches 1y ago
"Food spoilage" is putting it mildly. Mice have short generations. A single mouse can have up to ten litters in one year. If unchecked, a mouse population will quickly turn all your stored food into mice.
- nandomrumber 1y agoQueensland is occasionally exceptionally good at this. Here’s some video from four years ago https://youtu.be/rAdNJ1jczVI?si=HhB-P5lcAz3zhuMI https://youtu.be/rAdNJ1jczVI?si=HhB-P5lcAz3zhuMI
- grumpy-de-sre 1y agoIn the meantime public sentiment toward cats in Australia is becoming really toxic (due to the consequences of a long-term ineffective feral control program). I swear one day when the chemical baits turn out to be worse than the cats themselves the pendulum will swing hard in favor of cats once again. They really are an indispensable tool and a big part of humanities agricultural success. FWIW I'm in favor of dropping a few billion AUD into cat control programs and deploying technologies like felixer everywhere. Up until now it's just been an underfunded borderline volunteer affair.
- arp242 1y agoMaybe store some poisoned quadrotriticale?
- nandomrumber 1y agoThat’s the trouble with Tribbles.