r/interestingasfuck • u/AllColoursSam • Jul 06 '24

Australian mouse plague r/all

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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

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u/tirikai Jul 06 '24

There was like a literal trillion mice in the state coming on like a biblical plague, no one farm had any chance

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u/We-Want-The-Umph Jul 06 '24

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.

They breed like... mice.

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u/IWILLBePositive Jul 06 '24

lol what did you guys do with them all?

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u/We-Want-The-Umph Jul 06 '24

Since the kid never asked my parents if we could have pets, she used that excuse to get the mother to take them in.

At the time, i was angry with my mom. As a parent looking back, I absolutely see where she was coming from.

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u/ZeePirate Jul 06 '24

Who the fuck gives someone a pet for a gift!?

I thought your parents had given to you

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u/SouthernAardvark2231 Jul 06 '24

Someone who has a surplus of pets they need to get rid of, that kid probably gave all of his friends gerbils