WATCH: Mice gone wild in Australia!
Australia is going through a mice plague, they are everywhere!
Any sort of rodent infestation gives us the creepy crawlies and we are sure that you can relate to that. So when we hear about Australia going through a mice plague, we really can't even get rid of that shivery feeling of creepiness.
Australia is currently facing a mice infestation, from their farming communities to the residential homes and hospitals, they are literally everywhere. Just watching the video footage from residents and farmers leaves us feeling a bit eery, so we can't imagine what they must be going through, living through it.
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The effects of the rodents are being felt by many Australians. Farmers are spending thousands to try and eliminate the rodents from destroying their crops. While business owners are also being affected, with the mice chewing through electrical wires and damaging stock.
This massive infestation and the effects have prompted the government to authorise a double strength bait that can be used to rid of the rodents. "Just this month, the government also introduced a $50 million mouse plague package which includes free bait for farmers," usatoday.com reports.
A farmer in New South Wales spoke to the ABC News and said that the infestation was relentless. "The first time that I had to pick up a mouse out of the pool and smash it on the cement to kill it, I thought, 'Oh gosh, I can't do this,... "But then I was doing 50 a day."
The current mice plague in Australia is horrible, it’s causing so much strife for farmers and people in general. Just for an example I’ll show you what happened when we turned on our auger today. pic.twitter.com/NjTNlx6EhK
— TKK Ash (Aura) (@William84533624) May 22, 2021
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