The scale of the mouse plague gripping regional Australian towns has been laid bare by footage of a rodent clinging to the fur of a sunbathing cat.
The mouse was pictured perching on the cat s forehead as he laid down on a ledge in Coonabarabran in New South Wales central west on April 25. Quick look up - he s on your head. Get the mouse, a voice can be heard urging the cat from behind the camera.
Farmers in northern parts of the state and southern Queensland have battled plagues of mice in recent months, complaining that they are ravaging crops and spread potentially fatal bacterial diseases.
Australians overwhelmed by a mouse plague sweeping across rural towns have been forced to spread peanut butter onto bin lids in a desperate attempt to trap and kill the masses of rodents.
Farmers based in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland have endured plagues of rodents in recent months, which have destroyed large volumes of stock.
A fed up woman in Tamworth, in northern NSW, explained she d bought a bin with a swinging lid to use as a cheap alternative to a mouse trap after struggling to find one in stores.
She said when the mice crawled onto the lid to taste the peanut butter they would fall down inside the bin, which she would then fill with water to drown them.
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An Australian farmer has shared a horrifying video of thousands of mice inside his barn as the country struggles with a rodent plague.
Brody Roche filmed swarms of mice scurrying across the ground and over machinery on his New South Wales farm on Tuesday.
He watched on helplessly as hundreds of the creatures ran across two tractors and covered the bags of grain.
Thousands of mice have inundated a farm in New South Wales after a farmer discovered the rodents inside his barn
The shocking footage comes after torrential downpour and dangerous flooding across New South Wales and southern Queensland created perfect breeding conditions for the out-of-control mice infestation to spread across the country.
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