It's mouse census week...

[gleee58]

How many at your place?

http://csironewsblog.com/2015/04/13/farmer-counts-a-mouse-australias-first-ever-mouse-census-week/

Our scientists are leading the nation’s first ever national game of cat and mouse, and we want you to join in the fun. Taking place this week, farmers and advisers throughout Australia’s grain-growing regions are being asked to get involved in the nation’s first everMouse Census Week by assessing mouse activity on their farms.

The census is taking place before seeding of winter crops – a critical time for locating mouse “hot spots” and determining whether numbers are at levels that could pose a risk to newly-sown crops. Farmers can record mouse activity via MouseAlert – a website and recently-released App aimed at improving early warning of possible plagues and rapid response to increases in mouse activity.

This video shows the sort of problem we are up against (and a warning, it’s not pretty):

We know from our own routine monitoring that mouse activity is currently low in Victoria and New South Wales, but has increased in South Australia with higher than normal abundance in some regions.

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[*pepe]

there are none at my house... that i know of....

[gleee58]

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@*pepe wrote:

there are none at my house... that i know of....

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I had one a few weeks ago.  I murdered him with poison.

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

Three active mice, two track balls, and two touch pads....

[*pepe]

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@gleee58 wrote:

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@*pepe wrote:

there are none at my house... that i know of....

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I had one a few weeks ago.  I murdered him with poison.

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its not actually murder - its  not your fault he ate it - it could be reckless endangerment or involuntary manslaughter though....

[gleee58]

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@*pepe wrote:

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@gleee58 wrote:

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@*pepe wrote:

there are none at my house... that i know of....

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I had one a few weeks ago.  I murdered him with poison.

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its not actually murder - its  not your fault he ate it - it could be reckless endangerment or involuntary manslaughter though....

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That sounds much better.  He was rather greedy, which appears to have hastened his demise.

[*pepe]

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@gleee58 wrote:

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@*pepe wrote:

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@gleee58 wrote:

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@*pepe wrote:

there are none at my house... that i know of....

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I had one a few weeks ago.  I murdered him with poison.

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its not actually murder - its  not your fault he ate it - it could be reckless endangerment or involuntary manslaughter though....

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That sounds much better.  He was rather greedy, which appears to have hastened his demise.

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and he stole your poison, so it really was karma...

[katymatey*]

Hopefully none. I have quite a large walk in pantry, so it is hard to know sometimes. I always have 3 traps set, and also there is a cat in the house now.

[tasfleur]

[bluecat*dancing]

There had better not be any or else there will be four cats that will get a good talking to.