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Old 23-05-2021, 08:45 AM
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We're going to be in huge trouble once they start chewing through the toilet rolls at the supermarkets.

I suggest you stockpile now and bait your stash...

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Old 24-05-2021, 06:51 PM
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Mouse Tracker Online

Here is a link to the Mouse Tracker:

https://www.feralscan.org.au/mousealert/map.aspx

They have a novel way of counting the mice, a standard card with a grid, soaked in edible oil, left over night the chewed areas indicate the relative infestation.

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Old 25-05-2021, 06:52 AM
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I thought the standard way of counting mice was counting the legs and dividing by four?
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Old 25-05-2021, 11:48 AM
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I thought the standard way of counting mice was counting the legs and dividing by four?
I guess the feralscan people cannot be everywhere to do the counting, so approximation would have to do for census numbers.
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Old 25-05-2021, 01:40 PM
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Has anyone reported any mouse-related damage to astro gear yet?
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Old 25-05-2021, 02:24 PM
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Does using my 8" mirror I am working on as a loo count?
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Old 25-05-2021, 02:28 PM
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Does using my 8" mirror I am working on as a loo count?
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Old 26-05-2021, 06:57 AM
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Mice start fire destroying home in NSW

On the TV news this morning was a report of a house in rural NSW that was destroyed by fire overnight. The fire is being blamed on mice! The conjecture is that the mice chewed through the electrical wiring in the ceiling, causing a short which caused the fire.
Obviously not equipped with mice safety switches. The particular mouse that completed the circuit must have been momentarily surprised.

Now this brings me to that great Aussie back verandah accessory, the Bug Zapper. We need a Mouse Zapper! This electrocution device could be place in areas of infestation, at ground level, potentially baited to draw them near. When they walk over the grid, Zap.
You would want to keep the cat away from it.
What other devices can we invent to dispatch the rodents?
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Old 26-05-2021, 07:07 AM
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On the TV news this morning was a report of a house in rural NSW that was destroyed by fire overnight. The fire is being blamed on mice! The conjecture is that the mice chewed through the electrical wiring in the ceiling, causing a short which caused the fire.
Obviously not equipped with mice safety switches. The particular mouse that completed the circuit must have been momentarily surprised.

Now this brings me to that great Aussie back verandah accessory, the Bug Zapper. We need a Mouse Zapper! This electrocution device could be place in areas of infestation, at ground level, potentially baited to draw them near. When they walk over the grid, Zap.
You would want to keep the cat away from it.
What other devices can we invent to dispatch the rodents?
These electric traps already exist Glen.

I use them around the house and they're very very effective.
Expensive, but they work so much better than any other trap I've tried.
Plus no poison needed and so easy to reset.


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Old 27-05-2021, 10:45 PM
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As if Covid worries were not bad enough, Mice give pub owner deadly infection.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/s...484dab9399c84d
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