Mice strip shelves bare at Gulargambone supermarket as plague takes over western NSW

Hundreds of mice, stripping shelves of food, eating everything in their sight: it sounds like something out of a horror film.

But it is the daily reality for Gulargambone grocer, Nav Singh.

“We actually are catching between 400–500 every night, sometimes 600, it’s pretty bad,” he said.

Gulargambone is a small community of about 500 people, between Gilgandra and Coonamble, about 526 kilometres north-west of Sydney.

Many locals rely on the supermarket for everyday needs, with large chain supermarkets more than an hour’s drive away in Dubbo.  

Mr Singh said he…