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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[gleee58]

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@bluecat*dancing wrote:

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

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It looks like Tasfleur's cat feeds her mice.

[lionrose.7]

None here, Lilli would go mental and let me know, by catching it and giving it to me as a Present

[cherry*135]

None here, and there better not be any ever.

This is the time of the year (start of cooler weather) they try and sneak in houses though.

[tasfleur]

Glee ...     .... our cats wouldn't know what to do with a mouse I suspect.   We had a couple of mice here once and the best they (the cats) could do was to play with them and herd them around, not helpful at all.

The cats do seem to keep the rodent population away just by patrolling though (they are inside cats)...   

[lionrose.7]

I saw a cat 🙂

[tasfleur]

*Lillicat sees mice and other beasties*

[lionrose.7]

She is not allowed to touch my frogs 🙂

[tasfleur]

*Frog says "ner ner, nah nah" to the Lillicat*   

[donnashuggy]

We saw a rat climb along the fence last week, Confirmed here http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/city-east/rats-on-the-rise-in-sydneys-east-with-rubbish-a...

[lind9650]

Two active mice on my desk, one cordless one in the lounge room and a couple o sick ones in some box on top of the Wardrobe.

No cats in the house.

         Erica