Thanks for not killing the mice 👍🙂❤️
Fraser
You reminded me though, that many decades ago here in Australia, we had HUGE mouse plagues!!
I remember back in about 1965/1970(?), on my uncles crop farms in Victoria, he would take us out
at night, in an old Model-T Ford work vehicle, with the back stripped off & a home-made tray-top, for
picking up stumps in the paddocks for the fireplace. He would shine the headlights out over the
fields from an elevated vantage point, and I SWEAR that the WHOLE GROUND was moving, as far
as the eye could see, with literally MILLIONS of Mice!!!
Sheds full of thousands of Wheat-Bags of grain, when you opened the doors, were absolutely
covered with THOUSANDS of Mice, chewing through the bags & helping themselves, uncontrolled!!!
Even when the 'plague' died away, they would have many 'traps' inside the homestead....
MANY large beer bottles with socks pulled over the bottom, up to the tapered part, laying on their
sides with the neck over the edge of tables/benches etc,with some cheese bunged into the end.
Underneath that, were large buckets, half filled with water!! The mice would climb up onto the
bottles, slip off the slippery end and fall into the water. Each bucket in the mornings would have
up to 100 mice in each!!! Desperate times called for desperate measures......
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