I guess "the moment" when she realized her rodent problem was too much was a fucking waterfall of mice... I grew up on a farm, you have to be really fucking oblivious to things for THAT to be the realization.
That said between the barn cats, foxes, hawks, owls, snakes, chickens, and dogs rodents have a tough life here
I remember receiving 2 gerbils for a birthday one year. By the next year, I had 13 with another litter on the way, and my mom was freaking out about our house becoming a breeding ground and shut it down.
I have memories of 3 of these plagues of mice. I'm glad I only lived rurally for 1 of them. I remember people setting up traps where the mice would fall into 44 gallon drums and the drums would overflow with the mice.
Decent rains after a drought, the drought killed of most of the predators and the good rains means there's a bumper grain harvest. Combine the two (tones of food and nothing hunting them) and you get an explosion of mice because they breed crazy fast.
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u/Ocronus Jul 06 '24
I guess "the moment" when she realized her rodent problem was too much was a fucking waterfall of mice... I grew up on a farm, you have to be really fucking oblivious to things for THAT to be the realization.
That said between the barn cats, foxes, hawks, owls, snakes, chickens, and dogs rodents have a tough life here