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Farmers finding novel ways to cope with devastating mouse plague – Sydney Morning Herald
When the cats have given up and the dogs are at risk of dying from eating rodent poison, farmers across inland Australia have had no choice but to improvise.
And so, each morning, Mr Fleming would begin the grim ritual of collecting dead mice by the bucketful, easily 300 of them a day. Then they would be buried well away from the house.
It would take him three hours a day, every day, to clear the buckets, dig and bury the mice and to reset the traps.
Still, it was time saved from having to clear off every surface, such as desks and tables, of mouse droppings, and to chase the rodents away from their beds and even out of their fridge.
Even so, you get…
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