PETA warn farmers to not kill mice during plague

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And yet their spokesperson for PETA (who was probably wearing nappies 10 years earlier) is able to get the prime minister of our country to publicly comment about this issue.

Why aren’t the cane toads eating them?

It's the former.

Its a "plague", as in "a plague of locusts". Not "plague" as in "THE plague" (the bubonic plague- the disease that killed millions ).

But, when you're talking about rodents... a "plague" of them could potentially also spread "THE plague".

Thats actually a good question.

From what I gather from Google:

The cane toads were introduced to australia to protect the sugarcane crops from pests. Specifically insect borers. The trouble is that the giant south american frogs couldnt attack the particular bug that attacked the Australian sugarcane becase the bug attacks the tops of the plants, and the frogs are bad climbers. So the frogs became a nuisance themselves without even being able to do their job. Lol!

But cane toads DO eat mice- and have been introduced to tropical island for that reason.

So yeah. Good question.


The current mouse plague seems to be two plagues centered in two far apart states: New South Wales, and Queensland. With NSW being the worst.

Queensland is in the north - in the tropics/subtropics (like Florida), and NSW is like Ohio. In the temperate zone cornbelt or wheatbelt.

The cane toads only thrive in the tropics and subtropics. Their whole range in Australia pretty much coincides with boundries of Queensland at the top of Australia. But New South Wales is way down south in the temperate zone. So it doesnt have cane toads to help kill the mice. So thats explains it for NSW.

But why the toads arent doing their job in the north I dont know. Maybe they ARE eating mice, and the plague would be even worse there if the toads werent there!

Why aren't the giant feral cats I hear so much about helping?

The Cats can't keep up with all those mice, Snakes couldn't either.

There was a picture in the paper of a cat with one of the mice on his back the other day.
His owner said he got tired chasing them.

Omg, please post.

Sorry I don't know how to post pictures, I tried to once before but I couldn't do it.

Found one picture here, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... posed.html

Hmm, how much validity in that?
https://www.animals24-7.org/2021/04/10/ ... will-play/

He's done.

PETA is a terrorist organization.
We don't negotiate with terrorists OR mice.
Catch the mice and relocate them...to the bottom of the ocean.

While you are correct that their geographical distribution doesn't overlap, even where there is overlap only a full grown toad can swallow a mouse and the larger toads are too slow to catch a swift moving mouse. Have you ever watched speedy Gonzales?

Not sure if PETA has evert done terrorism? are you perhaps thinking of Animal Liberation? they certainly have,

Queensland and NSW aren't far apart states, they are up against each other with the boundary cutting through Coolangatta and forming a jagged line working inland.

The mouse plague is causing chaos in eastern Australia in rural areas. Crops destroyed, machinery damaged, people attacked. Furthermore these things have extremely short reproductive cycles and multiply into many thousands very quickly. Apart from killing them what does this stupid fool think we should be doing with them? Adopt them? Put them into a zoo someplace?

Ben Fordham asked her if she was willing to adopt them at her comfortable inner city home and she smlied and ignored the question.