Millions of Mice Are Terrorizing Australia

A literal plague of mice has crippled farms across New South Wales and Queensland in Australia for months. And the only government-sanctioned solution of poison cant seem to kill the mice fast enough. The invaders have already eaten through hundreds of thousands of dollars of crops on each farm, and have resorted to cannibalism as grain runs low.
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[@MOBROOKS]

Say what you will but the guy with flamethrower is a winner.

[@kostamalidzan1701]

Yessir he was probably like: Yes, getting a "Not a flamethrower" was worth it

[@Ralkila]

until a rat with flames runs up to his back and...

[@ebo8740]

@The NTYR This is probably the most effective way of dealing with this problem on a larger scale. Yes, it is brutal, but when the mice start destroying your crops and other supplies, you are pretty much forced to take drastic measures.

[@djGAMEboi]

@The NTYR you didn't watch the video I guess

[@Paddy-zn4oo]

@UCCGOK-Jj0hNHH8P-NEvS-ZQ Sure? Whats the alternative. You and your 1000 iq should figure it out

[@The_Ronin1]

Flamethrower guy was relieving alot of built up stress. Damn.

[@bekalomsatze9968]

and getting the job done

[@husenmohamedadam9896]

Hhh

[@husenmohamedadam9896]

He makes lough

[@MistressKarma6969]

He got a lot of shite for doing that too. Idk y it seems like the only way to deal with it

[@omegamartlemon1408]

Meet the pyro

[@regularity2556]

I've watched Australia fight plagues of multiple animals, rabbits, cats, emus, and now mice. There's something strange about that country

[@zieghail1]

And they have highest rate of cancer in the world

[@Eirocina]

Australia defrostation to grown crops which push native predators aways to eat mice, then they introduced cat to kept mice under control. Then they start to hunt wild cat and now this.

[@shahriarhakim6673]

Australia should never fought rabbits or cats, cats keep the rat under control, their war against cats have put them in this place

[@renznatividad9782]

@@shahriarhakim6673 where did ypu get that info in Tim and Jery? Cat dont hunt mice it prefers hunting birds Cat is putting different species of native animal there to extinction

[@chilled99]

Trouble is people brought animals to Australia that dont belong there - its a separate ecosystem to other continents.

[@emrhasn8071]

Australian: *Kills Feral Cats* Massive Mice: *Allow us to introduce ourselves*

[@lilyolive8584]

My worst nightmare isn’t spiders or venomous snakes that can kill me, it’s just “Australia”.

[@peterbustin2683]

Yeah !! Apparently there are full of creepy crawlers, and thats just the humans

[@regionalrange3052]

@@peterbustin2683 USA has worse humans with 300 million + Assault rifles....

[@peterbustin2683]

@@regionalrange3052 Oh I agree !

[@Janeway1269]

I guess they don't have enough snakes after all!

[@Skiskiski]

I pick new Zealand!!

[@fadel_rama]

Flamethrower guys seem really on the end of his sanity

[@kiwipr6357]

Thats how u start a moving fireball and make it even worst

[@soulife8383]

Imagine going broke because they ate your crops, your house smells of rotting mice, there's 50 of them crawling about your bed at night, and then one morning you really crave some Lucky Charms and those SOBs ate all the marshmallows out of it. 🔥🐭🔥

[@avarice4556]

@@soulife8383 I swear, we don't have that big of an issue with it where i'm from but when i see one i want to do the same. I saw a big fucka at my work yesterday...

[@gdubs210]

he he he he looking like a GTA character, strangers and freaks mission

[@ctnative203]

@Happi 😂🤣🤣🤣

[@marionng5436]

1:51"You know? just one coloniser giving a lift to another" that was SAVAGE 😂

[@CMDR_Lani]

Right? 😂

[@Aariz981]

If a indian said that i would understand, but a Australian? Australia itself wouldn't exist without Britian, I mean the land would. But not the Australia we know today.

[@mildlycurious8333]

By the natives of course ​@@Aariz981

[@Neclasher]

"Really what we're doing is dealing with an invasive species" Weighs it like a fish and puts it back. "Nice."

[@ginsederp]

That mouse was probably tagged. You got to give up a few mouse heads to get many more after all.

[@Neclasher]

@@ginsederp Thanks buzzkillington

[@zBMatt]

This is why you don’t live on the final stage of the game: Australia.

[@Xainfinen]

Did you know that the game Jumanji take place in an alternate reality Australia?

[@MrSuperG]

What is Australia

[@Spyros_SP]

Australia is the best country

[@MrSuperG]

@@Spyros_SP it’s not )

[@MrSuperG]

@mr2wolfD please explain thank you I love you )

[@lw3269]

I've had mice in the house before. They get into EVERYTHING. They eat your food, poop on your stuff, and chew on wires. My heart goes out to these folks.

[@parseenanoo5301]

Mice not only eat your food it will eat humans

[@Tata-iu3fy]

I had a pack rat in my car. I used peppermint oil and they moved out. I left newspaper in my trunk so they didn't eat up my wires.

[@michaelsamuel9917]

These fools brought those animals with them, they also brought Rabbits and English Foxes I don't feel sorry one bit the Aboriginal ppl did fucking tell them to leave when they showed up!

[@samdanielvillaester3496]

Just get a cat that kills mouse bro it works for mouse control in the house.

[@beautyintheskies]

I have had the same issue. It is HORRIBLE to live with. After some hemming and hawing I adopted two kittens last fall and it has helped some but I can still hear them scurrying about in the walls. They mostly stay in the walls now as opposed to coming out and destroying everything and scaring me to death (they are SO FAST) thankfully but it is still bothersome and I worry a lot about it being a fire hazard as they chew wires.

[@Wil_Dasovich]

My worst nightmare…

[@rackctsz206]

Yoo will

[@diannehogan7605]

The trouble with poison is it can kill predators such as owls, hawks, lizards, snakes, kookaburras, who eat poisoned mice. Some poisons are worse than others.

[@carolynaitken7632]

Yes we’ve lost almost all our owls in the UK because of poisoned mice, it’s the main food of owls 🦉

[@turuus5215]

Isn’t there a poison that poisonous to mice but not poisonous to owls?

[@agcaoiliproductions9580]

I’d rather die than eat that “pizza” topped with 4 whole mice.

[@livefromtheground7274]

Why the heck is he wearing gloves to cook and eat dead mice? Disgusting.

[@cowboylikeme854]

That was disgusting

[@grod2752]

I thought it was a joke! No way this man is eating 4 mice on bread in one sitting

[@2wordname]

I know, that surely must be a joke. Even if you were going to eat mouse meat, surely you'd want to process it first, skin it and gut it and clean it. Joke or not, that mouse pizza was revolting. Maybe he made it for his cat. Even then, it'd probably turn it's nose up at it.

[@eldominici3732]

And to think that Stallone ate a Rat Burger in ‘Demolition Man’ 🤣

[@deaansugee]

"The current mice plague is the worst... IN A... DECADE! Do people not understand how little a decade is?

[@rebeccam.7249]

lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😭😭

[@bloodoftheinnocents4744]

Of course not, fear is a cyclical measure of control, so is human forgetfulness.

[@King_of_Africa]

Yeah when they said a decade. I was like that's more like a traditional plague

[@SgtJoeSmith]

Worse since Obama was President

[@Atiq_s]

I assumed she meant several decade.

[@jodygrove5512]

Oh my GOD. I am speechless. I feel so bad for these farmers and their families. Not too much I see shakes me up. This one shook me up out of my shoes God Bless these people

[@phoebealmeda-delacruz6072]

remember when Vice featured Australia hunting feral (unhoused) cats?

[@mikedok1]

Mouse sitting on the cat’s head was hilarious. Like it was saying Dude, you’re tired already? I’m just getting started!

[@jameseastward6399]

some pet cats dont eat mice at all, they need hungry feral cats with no one to feed them, just release them in the wild and let nature do its thing

[@mikedok1]

@@jameseastward6399 yeah, but it’s still funny tho.

[@ashtondarroux8161]

Jesus help

[@ashtondarroux8161]

Black Jesus plague of revelation

[@Ve-suvius]

@@jameseastward6399 I hear you. I was thinking of Mustelidae myself. Weasels, badgers,, ferrets, martens, minks. Those guys are fierce. When in a hen house they only rest when every chicken is killed. They are little murderous animals. So , send in the martens ! Killing is their obsession.

[@contagiouslaughs3383]

With that mice pizza , I don't think pineapple pizza is that bad anymore .

[@nancy4980]

🤭

[@adanvivanco9716]

Pineapple pizza is delicious!!

[@thephoenix2176]

Gtfreakouthere - disgusting!

[@abrahamvieyra5730]

🤣🤣🤣

[@joatanpereira4272]

@@adanvivanco9716 the mice pizza might be delicious too, but it doesn't make sense, that's the thing

[@carle5538]

I would hate having mice and rats run under my feet everyday. I do not know. I do not think I could keep my sanity in those conditions. My respects to Australia for this terrible problem.

[@LD-wf2yt]

Interestingly, Croatia's continental part reported similar problems: rodents, snakes. It seems life is not about maximizing opportunities but in balancing and sharing. For example, leaving trees for natural predators to nest and feed. In business modelling, we could make that another clause to be met before claiming something to be "enviromentally ethical", "organic" and so on.

[@deidradahl2802]

A farmer in my area , burnt all his storage as it was infested, he cleaned out the area, and dug a deep moat around his barn, and filled it with water, stopped planting for 2 yrs, then he eradicated the stragglers, some are still around, but not as before , he controls them, but they cannot ford the moat and eat his good grain

[@deidradahl2802]

@vladimir cochima Good job, we have to try something, instead of throwing our hands in the air, in despair

[@SeersantLoom]

Rats and mice can swim. Rats certainly can dive quite well.

[@deidradahl2802]

@@SeersantLoom-- I Concur, but this moat was deep and the sides were fitted with smooth greased tiles, they could not climb out

[@hjphan1030]

I was against animal cruelty. Until I saw the god damn mice on fire.

[@itsampofcourse]

Lmao

[@jennyclark6183]

Mice are innocent, loving animals just like any other.

[@thegoathimself9023]

@@jennyclark6183 I drown the ones that get caught in glue traps

[@porkcutlet3920]

@@jennyclark6183 They're vermin that eat up the crops of farmers. If this happened a few hundred years ago, lots of people would be starving to death.

[@jennyclark6183]

@@porkcutlet3920 Well it didn't happen a few hundred years ago. The fact that they are pests is no excuse for making them suffer. They are innocent, feeling creatures. The idiots should have done something about this before there got to be so many. There are things that you can just put where they will eat it so that they don't pro-create.

[@project_calais4977]

Saw a number of them running across the highway when I drove from Sydney to Adelaide. It is absolutely insane whats happening.

[@musskeeterbump]

Imagine this in NYC but with rats the size of cats with the ability to chew through steel and concrete 😁🤣

[@Wcheng1121]

I feel like that mouse pizza is going to spark another pandemic.

[@declansb641]

It's not how you're meant to cook mice or rats, you first need to skin them, and then you need to mince them because the bones are just everywhere so no point in making a fillet

[@twanaomar4506]

Especially UN FUCKING SKINNED MICE

[@sd906238]

Ever see the movie "Never Cry Wolf"? Charles Martin Smith eats some lemmings or mice like rodents on crackers. Whole critters with the fur, the bones the crunchy bones.

[@iglex_demure8496]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@anthonydoyle7370]

Yeah, that's a batshit crazy idea, FFS. Probably make a fortune in Beijing though lol ;c)

[@konradci.253]

They lack natural predators, snakes, hawks, owls, ferrets, cats, monitors.

[@mehere8038]

we have, or had plenty, but the cats ate them all. Quolls are the native cats here, snakes are plentiful, hawks & eagles too & owls, ferrets are not native & would eat the rabbits not mice anyway & monitors..... have you seen the reptiles in Australia??????? (monitors wouldn't waste their time on a 15 gm mouse though! They eat rabbits & the like)

[@muneermammikutty3245]

Or humans!

[@deanpd3402]

@@mehere8038 I'd like to see a Fox Terrier let loose on them. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXqti5KYl5Z8jLM

[@mehere8038]

@@deanpd3402 yeh but in reality, they're rats not mice & 250 from 7 dogs? farmers are cilling around 1 billion a week with poisons right now. Just a 44gallon drum with a stick across the middle & slippery gets 250 an hour. In a lot of cases now they're not even bothering setting that up, just a chute into a barrel of water & just walk on the other side & they fly into the barrel in their thousands, continueing until the barrel's full enough with mice that the top ones can just run across it. NZ used those dogs on the islands they were rat removing, but only after the poisons had got rid of the vast majority, the dogs were just to sniff out & find the last handful, they don't work on billions of mice & labour costs to use them to prevent the plagues are too high, that's where native animals are needed in their tens of thousands for that job

[@AcolyteOfLucifer]

@@Slow_Sounds cats too

[@r.mariebrown6733]

Well they asked for it. The war on feral cats, shooting them for fun changed the balance of nature. We had people where I live do the same and get rid of cats so now we have a rat problem in our neighborhood.

[@jacobplaya8917]

But my question is why is Australia losing war on a lot of animals?

[@elliot5203]

EMUS: finally a worthy opponent!!

[@ItsMrJoshua786]

British Empire: AMATEURS

[@mikedok1]

Now that’s funny.

[@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234]

The Narrator sounds like She's Talking in a basement

[@lordofskulls8888]

OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY

[@KeenSince93]

Camels RIP

[@IanKane]

Vice: Surely there must be something that they can do... *Shows M16 rifle

[@avarice4556]

even videogame accuracy isn't that good

[@avarice4556]

see 100 and kill 10 - 20 out of pure luck

[@coreenaburke5775]

I saw a video about this island that is full of abandoned starving cats. Worsend now because of covid. They need to haul all those cats to Australia!!

[@LS-pv4dh]

M16, then a bomb.....then a guillotine. Wow.

[@bugboy491]

I was thinking - get a machine gun and gun them down every time they run out of cover, because they are literally covering the ground. But that's not as practical as a f l a m e t h r o w e r

[@garyfinchum3252]

I was once remodelling an old grocery store and had to get up into the ceiling. All of the fiberglass ceiling panels were riddled with tunnels chewed through them. How do you deal with an animal that can eat fiberglass?

[@anassahbenji6056]

I haven't seen any new videos are there updates on the mice?

[@---yn3bv]

By just looking at this documentary, you just get exhausted. Imagine living there, and having to experience this everyday of your life.

[@camillapalmer82]

It is really exhausting. People have had enough. It’s actually made some farmers suicidal and we already lose a lot of farmers to suicide because of natural disasters. They didn’t really say how bad the impact of the poison has been though on native animals and river systems. Heaps of dead fish.

[@jiyuchan17]

One mice in your kitchen is already make you exhausted physically and mentally. 😥 Can't imagine if I live there.😵

[@---yn3bv]

This is so saddening to be honest.

[@jebbus8387]

I thought one of these comments was gonna be USA slander lmao

[@navsingh5383]

Can you imagine the smell

[@MrMothertruck]

Australia: - We rid the mice with snakes, problem gone Snake: - Hold my beer

[@Claarissaahhh]

🤣🤣🤣

[@sherrikelly7588]

Cats. Where are all the cats, eagles, kestrels???

[@MrMothertruck]

@@sherrikelly7588 They are in a town called outnumbered.

[@wiratawiragati2065]

@@sherrikelly7588 they kills stray cats brutally. Now they got what they did

[@Argos-xb8ek]

@@wiratawiragati2065 screw those cats

[@user-qg1wj7wh8i]

Mongolia is also experiencing this. For two years, Mongolia had plenty of rain and snow. Now 2021 is the year people are fighting mouse infestation. My family is stressed out to the max. Poison and traps are not working. They figured out a way to avoid the poison and traps. My neighbor got a cat because of that but the cat doesn’t know how to hunt!!! Ugh!!! What do you do? It’s taking a toll on mental health of my family.

[@uberlupe1]

Operator: What do you need? Neo: Pellet guns. Lots of pellet guns.

[@vegasgirl9550]

“Killing as many God Damn Mice As Possible “ The next film title by Quentin Tarantino 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@muhammadhashir6136]

😂🤣😂It really sounds like a tarentino movie.

[@redloveeee]

🤣🤣🤣

[@mictlantecuhtli64]

That was the funniest part 😂

[@Darrow97]

DOOM Metal music starts playing

[@wendyshoo3476]

It won't do. The more you kill, the more there is. Stop killing. Find a way, pray to god.

[@froggie1847]

It’s scary, but invasive species can prove to be a dangerous biological weapon.

[@user-fje4ztx46no86]

Tell that to Europeans in the 1500's.

[@JXZ-JAM]

And modern agriculture just makes it worst.

[@sleeexs]

@yeh nah Built on the labor of other people.

[@vincentwoodhead6411]

@yeh nah Google The Islamic Golden Age mate. Without them We wouldn't even have preserved translated copies of the ancient Greeks y'all worship so much

[@SomethingLikeThat64]

“One colonized giving a lift to another” 🤣🤣🤣

[@elenarodriguez922]

My cat would have so much fun in Australia. He LOVES hunting, and is darn good at it.

[@debbiesmith8248]

My cat would think it was an all you can eat buffet!

[@nujabeslistener]

Yeah and I'm sure he also loves killing the natural wildlife and endangered species too. You should be locked up for letting your cat outside

[@chrissmith9167]

@@nujabeslistener A nujabeslistener with no chill lmao.

[@user-lr8ow2jg4e]

@@nujabeslistener It is just one cat.

[@223sushi]

Mice: "I am scared of no man, but that thing... it scares me"

[@cutedandelion1409]

What is the one thing the mice are scared of?🙃

[@Amir-ez2qh]

Mice are literally eating up your crops.. making the possibility of a food shortage a real thing.. and you worry about trying to get rid of them in a "humane" way??? Get your priorities right Jesus..

[@rsync9490]

@Drone Strike PETA needs to be abolished. They care more about pests than humans.

[@LunaTulpa]

@Drone Strike legitimately tell me how peta is actually protecting them, and not the government just caring about them for some reason

[@Nate-wf5hk]

So true, we already kill animals, what difference does it really make if we are killing them less “humanely”. People always like to pretend that factory farming isn’t a thing

[@LunaTulpa]

@@Nate-wf5hk I can't tell if you're naive or just a psychopath. If you have the option to simply slit a main vein/high voltage shock so the death is instantaneous, then yeah you should Just because "gonna die anyway lol" is a pretty poor excuse for enjoying the slow death, inflicting pain when the opposite is available Difference here is the humane ways cause issues, and anyone most are doing inhumane ways purely out of nessecity

[@tiajoseph7309]

@Drone Strike You can't be serious? If so, then I pray that those mice make their lives a living hell as well. These people act like a cult.

[@bitemyshinnymetalass1569]

Imagine the rats join forces with the spiders and locusts. Australia would be doomed.

[@sunriser112]

Divine Justice for the crime of killing and stealing...

[@user-fje4ztx46no86]

are you talking about politicians? im confused

[@sunriser112]

@@user-fje4ztx46no86 You shouldn't I am talking bout the native aboriginal people who were slaughtered and had their land stolen from them...

[@user-fje4ztx46no86]

@@sunriser112 thats what i was getting at. i was talking to the thread starter and people walking in the comment section in general. slowly but surely people in the "west" start to open their eyes about the horrors of colonization, even after occupation, their legacy of arrogance still hurting people today.

[@yippeelee209]

Rats + Bats =>> xxxx ?

[@superfogg886]

Man, I can't believe what I see. It makes my skin crawl, I feel sick only watching it. I wonder how people can even manage to still live there where this stuff is happening. I thougth I were a strong person but that's terrifying How could you dare direspect a pizza so badly.

[@naturalfreeness322]

One of the most advanced country the world can be brought to it's knees by mice so easily says a lot about the bigger picture.

[@captaintoyota3171]

We are pathetic. Teetering on edge of collapse at all times. Yet our species has so much potential to protect our planet and species but we waste it on greed amd shotsightedness. So pandemic thats not that deadly or mice can bring us to our knees. Sad really what we could be and what we are

[@princess_ama]

Well I guess I can cross Australia off my bucket list. 😂

[@kuga_4038]

Its still on mine, along with New Zeeland

[@bluelava4282]

Wise, remember the cane toads

[@sunil5518]

my dream is to visit Australia...the wildlife is beautiful there

[@caesar7734]

Please come to Australia. It is very mice here.

[@21xxx21]

@@caesar7734 🤣

[@LovinLife-pv7op]

"We need to be respectful." And he wonders why there is an overabundance?

[@anonymously_me1803]

Right! WTF! It's mice. Just kill them! They're not respectful of us humans!

[@SharynJanssen]

Send all the mice to this guys house!! He’ll love ‘em up!! Idiot

[@fuyoutube854]

@@SharynJanssen why are you getting triggered LoL 😂 you should channel your incense towards the mice rather than towards him

[@ShoJ369]

Yip, " These are animals ', Me = NO These are vermin, breeding every few weeks and eating Australia's food supply. Like a lot have said, The flame thrower guy is a hero !

[@dingus_doofus]

@@ShoJ369 They are animals. But that doesn't mean we need to kiss their little mouse feet. They are competing with us for ressources and they are carriers of disease - especially at this scale. So it's war. This is nature, and we are a part of it. These people have completely lost touch. Perhaps we need less civilisation.

[@Shilo-fc3xm]

"Icky Mickeys" ? Glad to see that journalism degree didn't go to waste.

[@BennyGarza1899]

That flamethrower bit had me a mess on the floor

[@user-pn9qp1sr3e]

Australian government: ok we've killed all the cats. Mice: Allow me to introduce myself.

[@diablo55]

yeah seriously i can’t help but imagine doing that definitely contributed to the crazy spike in mice population

[@clashman7564]

Did you watch the video? Those cats were destroying native species, not mice.

[@SuperJosteen]

did you actually watch the video?

[@LOLXD957]

saying these issues are not related is being really naive

[@mehere8038]

The native cat in Australia is the quoll. It does a reasonable job on mice - at least in the areas that feral cats haven't sent them extinct! Quolls are extinct in all the areas the mouse plague is impacting, due to predation by feral cats. Areas that have engaged in really active cat culls have largely managed to avoid mouse plagues

[@Sound557]

Are we sure that Australia isn’t just the first level of Hell?

[@barbarar2216]

nah they just fucked it up badly by bringing so many invasive species and killing their own population control ones

[@davidd3063]

i am not shure, not shure at all.

[@Emmy4ShortStack]

*Aussies raise a beer to that statement

[@blizzard1198]

Nah they just ruined they're own eco system

[@demosthenes317]

First level? More like levels 1-7...

[@Asilee]

She said "tickling the ivories". Her delivery is what has me cacking at 11:00pm at night.

[@dynamiteeinaa879]

The way he slapped the fish at 4:53 lmao

[@Bryian1125]

They lost a war to emus, now they're about to loose a war to mice.

[@deadlock642]

Lmao

[@nandinhocunha440]

The cat war is still going on

[@snsuzivo]

Australia lost a war to rabbits and cane toads also.

[@10mmseb]

Actually they’ve accomplished their emu goal

[@ratha8799]

@@10mmseb By the results tho the emus still won

[@wanderingstar3308]

Note to self: never move to Australia. Deadly animals, extreme weather events, and plagues of mice or spiders every few years. Yikes!! ☠

[@thehuman2cs715]

At least the spiders are native to there and not a big problem to humans

[@sklandy1]

but other than that its a great fuckin country, honestly you could say the same about america, riots, covid cases, war threats etc. but other than that great country

[@greenland3052]

imagine waking up with a black widow on your balls

[@Skravla]

Spiders are not a problem but got damn they are terrifying

[@augustosantamaria4846]

You forgot epic fires.

[@VibracoesdePazeLuz]

É preciso criar animais que comam rato, como emas, emus, gatos e ter outros selvagens que se alimentem de ratos, como cobras, raposas, corujas e outros que não interfiram negativamente no ecossistema. Também é importante identificar os focos de ninhos mais evidentes, como locas de pedras e similares.

[@talusrobinson]

The map of where mice have spread shows Alberta having mice and they definitely don't. They do alot to make sure of that

[@SecretEyeSpot]

that kid screaming "what in the world" is such a meme

[@edwardozwellashfordreynold7699]

Australia needs owls snakes eagles vultures foxes dogs wild cats badgers European mink and weasels marmots otters owls urgently

[@SecretEyeSpot]

@@edwardozwellashfordreynold7699 Now now.. let it not have another invasive species that has no natural predators. that wouldn't be a sustainable solution

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

@@edwardozwellashfordreynold7699 hawks they need hawks!!

[@garyr7027]

Cat: you try eating the same meal everyday see if you get tired of it.

[@houdini5538]

Not to mention those are let cats who get given food so aren't bothered to hunt. These idiots killed the feral cats that could've dealt with the mice

[@XSemperIdem5]

@@houdini5538 because the feral cats were killing off the native species. It's an ironic predicament they're in now but both invasive species are bad for the native species. Same with the foxes.

[@samsonsoturian6013]

They're also so easy to catch it ain't worried about one getting away.

[@tombiby5892]

@Dervish Warrior Always research KZbin comments before making big decisions. But try telling that to these scientists.

[@romangaming6718]

@@houdini5538 the feral cats would be killed anyways by that rats poison.

[@equatebond2809]

I didn't like cats until 2 strays gave birth to kittens in the shed -- the cutest crybabies in the world 😁. Since 2020, I haven't seen any mice, rats and gophers.

[@evancancel2213]

“Icky Mickeys” That’s a good one.

[@rodolfobarros5460]

The smell of dead mice in your walls is unfathomable

[@thandepaji]

Finally, all of you now know why kicking out Tom wasn't a good idea.

[@addictedtofamilyguy7627]

Tom rules

[@thesleepiesthead]

Nobody gonna mention how she compared the mice to a ‘primordial horror’??

[@kamomohilda7954]

Hmm, years ago Australia declared a war against feral cats. Now they have another war with mice. That... kinda explains something.

[@divy6612]

No one :- Australians be waging war on animals.... Last year it was the feral cats and now it's mice

[@JohnDoe19xx]

And they have a never ending war with rabbits

[@muffinmendy7327]

Emus. Then cats. Then mice. Next year it's gotta be humans.

[@roverrange3674]

And toads.

[@cyncats7044]

Even Roos in same places, they’re in plague proportions

[@karoberts2198]

Who forgot dogs?

[@ricardon8869]

Australia is something else lmao, they’re always going thru it.

[@gp8721]

Right?? Between an oppressive government taking their rights one by one, insane wildlife trying to kill them daily, and fires everywhere. It looks so beautiful in the pictures but it sounds like hell when you write it down

[@itsmejoe1401]

as long they support war criminal and mice will be there forever🤣

[@sjb2471]

You do realise that this style of journalism creates an inaccurate sense of this though? Australia is a huge country - a continent in fact - and this mouse plague, while very serious, is only impacting a relatively small part of the country with a tiny percentage of the population in it. Many Australians have no idea it’s even happening. It was similar with the bushfires - very bad issue, but impacting only a tiny part of the overall country. Every other large country is exactly the same - there is often a large issue impacting part of it from time to time be it fire, flood, storm, earth quake, volcano, civil violence, whatever. People should learn to think more broadly and less reactively about these sorts of stories 🙄

[@w0rloko]

@@itsmejoe1401 bingo

[@imatter4619]

The one guy says that we need to respect them. 😀😀 He should take them to his house and see how respectful these rats can be.

[@nishantaadi]

Buy couples of Owls and non poison Snakes.

[@starcrib]

Frightening: and the death smell of the mice will ruin a mind-body-spirit. Horrifying.

[@iiiexeiii7233]

Try leaving a few mugs/cups of Vinegar in each room, that can shift some really nasty smells. Just put 2 - 3 inches in each mug/cup and leave it to stand.

[@pierrecurie]

@@iiiexeiii7233 Now everything smells like vinegar...

[@seantracy9714]

Now we know how the Wild Fires started in Australia. Man with Flame Thrower and a thousand little rodents on fire.

[@deanpd3402]

That's wild!

[@snakeeye179]

When the guy put the mice on the pizza , its a miracle that i dint threw up on the keyboard

[@masterspark9880]

“The worst in a decade” so there was an even worse one just ten years ago?

[@diegoquezada3193]

Well the worst mouse plague in Australia occurred in 1996 which caused $3 billion in damage.

[@crimsonhalo13]

They're not pooping in MY shoes. All hail the flamethrower guy, he knows how to handle himself.

[@animaanimus8011]

If I couldn’t keep the mice off with the flame thrower I would start considering turning it on myself. Just end my suffering…

[@kashourikatsu2543]

Lololol

[@casienwhey]

"There is one technique they have been trying out, called, Killing as many god damned mice as possible!" Epic!

[@Splexsychiick]

Also clean up their farms. Bad practices and laziness is also part of the problem. I know farms and leaving debris and clutter is not a good thing. Also no regular repairs. Holes in storage sheds wall and roofs etc.

[@MrRAYGUN5555]

@@Splexsychiick it’s very obvious you’ve never been on a farm before.

[@mehere8038]

PETA meanwhile are pushing for catch & release :S Many are pushing for catch & release into PETA HQ :)

[@la-li-lu-le-lo9444]

@@MrRAYGUN5555 "I know farms" lol

[@vincentgarcia2702]

Clearly not because he said its not humane.

[@Amafaranga300]

I like the way some people are experts even in mice business!

[@lukesmith3618]

With all the weird predators in Australia you wouldn’t think the mice would get out of control

[@ointment-ew6ny]

Yeah not to mention they have the dingo

[@mdsk7623]

We all need to realize that being humane with the mice is NOT gonna work

[@jennyclark6183]

Yes it COULD WORK if these people would use it.

[@sendouharuka1004]

@@jennyclark6183 Are you a vegan?

[@sendouharuka1004]

@@jennyclark6183 because killing is the most humane way to get rid of these mice

[@jennyclark6183]

@@sendouharuka1004 Do you have to be a vegan to realize that just causing unnecessary suffering is wrong?

[@jennyclark6183]

@@sendouharuka1004 Yes, but it's the WAY you kill them.

[@okamisan3642]

“The chances of secondary poison is quite low” sounds bullshitty

[@brianm27]

the corporation that makes the poison would never lie to us!

[@mehere8038]

actually it is for that one, at least compared to others. The new one they talk about that the government has approved & spent millions on, farmers are refusing to use, cause of the secondary poisoning it causes. It was used a couple of decades ago, so they have experience with it & know how it devastates the wildlife & to their credit, they are therefore objecting to it's use & demanding better alternatives, or just more of the poison that causes less secondary poisoning, so as to protect the natural environment as much as possible. Vice didnt' report on that, just reported the $50 million & new poison as if it will fix this - it won't!

[@sandrarobinson3266]

It is only ever last resort I live in the Ted Centre they are even out in force here my dog has given up last night sounded like huge party in my house lying in bed watching them chase each other up and down the Hall and they make huge amount of noise for such small animal's dog keeps thinking someone is inside the house. With all that I and almost all others here refuse to use baits as it is cruel slow death for mice the one you can buy and as it slows Mice down makes it easier for not just pets to catch them but also native species, we are trying everything. Farmers do have to feed us so don't be too hard on them they have just come out of longest drought where ran out of feed for cattle years ago so had to sell and kill a lot of animals they were starting to store feed ready for next drought and sell crops to pay banks.

[@DrumToTheBassWoop]

@@mehere8038 let’s hope so for everyone’s sake, or there will be no wildlife.

[@brianm27]

@@sandrarobinson3266 yo nobody is being hard on the farmers we all love , appreciate and support our farmers and I hope a fix is coming

[@simon_a.j.7255]

I remember when youtube was still new, I saw videos about the mice infestation in Australia. It's surprising that the problem is still going on and getting worse

[@SunaAoimori]

one technique called...* dramatic pause * " killing as many god damn mice as possible" hahahaha i lost it hahahahha

[@xNTFXx]

So this is why Tom can't beat Jerry he just keeps coming back

[@rustymugg9658]

Yep, it be his kids, kids , kids..

[@KirtianM]

Tom is dead

[@edwardozwellashfordreynold7699]

Australia needs owls snakes eagles vultures foxes dogs wild cats badgers European mink and weasels marmots otters owls urgently

[@madamajoke2143]

Tom cant beat jerry because Tom friends are got slaughtered by human Did u forgot about cat slaughter in australia?

[@strabo1st]

@@madamajoke2143 i never knew that!

[@adud6764]

"No simple solution" yet they show a mouse guillotine. Sounds perfectly fine to me.

[@michaelgodding8572]

It just requires a consistent across the board approach. The main issue is landholders aren't managing their property effectively to begin with and expect the government to fly in and save the day.

[@avarice4556]

I've seen you before

[@avarice4556]

@@michaelgodding8572 How can you manage your property effectively in this kind of situation. If the entire continent is facing this issue don't you think it's a more widespread problem than a personal one? Logically they can't all just be nasty and ineffective at just cleaning, right?

[@rsync9490]

@@avarice4556 personal failing over systemic issues is the conservative way.

[@avarice4556]

@@rsync9490 I was going to go off on something about that, but the minute you make such criticisms overt they derail the conversation and the idiots start bringing in all kind of stupid sht. I want to talk about rats and that idiot will start talking about but Biden this and Biden that.

[@mariarene7395]

That’s so disgusting how they put mice in the pizza 🤢 🤮

[@user-nb9rt6zk6h]

This video reminds me of these animals eating stuff : Sand Cats , Fennec Foxes , Serval Cats , Caracal , Cheetah´s , Malayan Water Monitor Lizard , Crocodile Monitor lizard , Nile Monitor Lizard , Savannah Cats , ( South African ) Black - Footed little wild cat , Chausie House Cats , Ocelots , Margay´s wild cat´s , Abyssinian Cat , Bat - Eared Fox , Bengal Cats , Toyger Cats , Chocolate or Cinnamon type Ocicat , Eagle Owls , Giant Scops Owl , Barn Owl , Long - Eared Owl , Spectacled Owl , Oriental Bay Owls , Eastern Screetch Owl , Snowy Owl , Eurasian Eagle Owl , Tawny Owl , Great Gray Owl , Great Horned Owl , Northern Pygmy Owls , Burrowing Owl , Boreal Owl , Striped Owl , Spotted Wood Owl , Andean Condor Vulture , Harpy Eagle , Ferruginous Hawk , The Northern Goshawk , the Philippine Monkey Eating Eagle , Steller´s Sea Eagle , in the wild , main Coon Cat , Canadian Lynx , Bob Cat , Clouded Leopard , Oncilla cat , Borneo Bay Cat , Marbled Cat , Geoffory´s cat , Andean Cat , Jaguarundi cat , Jungle Cat , Caracal wild cat , Eurasian Lynx , Pallas´s wild cats , Pampas wild cat , Chinese Mountain Cat , Serengeti cat .

[@dignityputnam6641]

‘Sure individually they might be cute…’ no, no they are not.

[@IamINERT]

I just want to torture them 1 by 1 Annoying boggers Rats really are bad for your mental health aren't they? 😅

[@supahcomix]

i love mice, but seeing them crawl out of silos, walls and just crawling over each over remind me of roaches

[@thvtsydneylyf3th077]

I feel the mice just want a ride back to England

[@agees924]

They are the cutest things on earth if you have one as a pet.

[@thvtsydneylyf3th077]

@@agees924 One bit me on the peehole in my slumber

[@KingKing-ny2ew]

VICE 2018: Shooting Cats: Australia's War on Feral Cats VICE 2021: Millions of Mice Are Terrorizing Australia 🤔

[@sababerozashvili5169]

😂😂

[@iredragustinovis2916]

100% that is exactly what I thought. They were warned not to kill the feral cats, to trap, neuter and release and let them die out on their own. But noooooo, the powers that be in their ignorance and arrogance went ahead and killed thousands of "nuisance" cats. So now a new wave of mice us destroying the infrastructure? Fire the idiots in charge that were short sighted and tone deaf.

[@NullConflict]

@@iredragustinovis2916 Cats aren't the solution -- they're a big part of the problem because they kill native predators.

[@65tallmax]

@@NullConflict better than mice terrorist organizations

[@berenicececilia]

Oh King! I just wrote a comment about that... .maybe this proliferation of mice has something to do with this? Less cts more mice? Poor people tho.

[@jasonator69er]

um so basically im from new york and these tiny mice make my skin crawl. They're like ants except super fast and a horde. Trap thousands of mice in sealed barn or room with bait or whatever attracts mice maybe warmth and then gas them. How about genetically modify mice so they have fatal STDs and aren't able to reproduce? Have those mice breed in a lab until maybe a few hundred and release into the wild. So every time they try to mate they spread the STD and since mice mate so much a ton of mice will contract the STD and reproduction will slow rapidly. They won't be able to fertilize and will keep trying while spreading the STD.

[@janetpattison8474]

OMG , why let the problem get totally out of control? The government should be on top of this. It’s unbelievable.

[@NeoCoreSaturn]

It's kindly hard for me to stay serious when she called them "Icky Mickeys"

[@78deathface]

This is horrifying

[@CRYSAW]

Y’all can hate on the dude with the flamethrower but you’ll change your mind when they crawl up your bed at night and go into your mouths.

[@theotheseaeagle]

Maybe you Australians eradicating all your cats wasn’t the best idea after all. Lol

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

5:35 "I don't condone any of these [water traps]" They should be mass producing water traps. The ethics of needing to mass murder mice overrides minor moral quibbles about how.

[@Unlikely_Pirate]

Moral of the story: don’t live in Australia

[@AnastasiaBeaverhousn]

What country has too many cats, snakes , weasels and hawks..

[@bobg5960]

It's so funny because when you have a pet mouse they only live for a year or so (sometimes they live for a couple or a few years but generally they die pretty quickly) and they can die from you sneezing too loudly. She talks about how they can survive inhospitable conditions but they are weenies lmao

[@daveninjaneuro7089]

forget being a doctor, I wanna be a flamethrower guy

[@RomeshSenewiratne-Alagaratnam]

There are more than 40 native species of rodent in Australia. The 3 'pest' species were accidentally introduced from Europe (and Britain). The native and introduced species can be differentiated by the fact that the native species are largely diurnal rather than nocturnal.

[@b.michaellewis2435]

Emus, rabbits, mice and toads and some people.

[@HandleMyBallsYouTube]

I had vivid flashbacks to the whole towerful of mice story from Witcher 3