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'Rare and beautiful': Owl population booms following mouse plague (www.abc.net.au)
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Farmers and wildlife groups have found barn owls breeding, hatching and fledging in large numbers in WA's Midwest and Wheatbelt regions.

Wildlife experts have linked the apparent owl boom to a recent mouse plague and the reduced use of an owl-killing rodenticide.

Barn owls are expected to face increasing competition for food and habitat as mouse numbers continue to decline.

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[–] 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah...

But I don't think you understand how bad it is that rodents are immune to rodent poisoning...

It turns the poison into just food, and lots of places just dump a bag full of poison and if it's gone they assume it worked and dump another.

When/if they ever stop, a giant population spreads in every direction carrying any and every disease in the last place.

That new place, turns to to the times tested and Amazon approved poison.

Cycle repeats.

Rodents carry serious disease. And you're ignoring the very important fact, that an indoor cat is what deters rodents from being in a building....

If the cat is outside, the rodents want to be inside even more.

So you put the cat in the house, and the rodents stay outside of the house. And in your trash can, is some used cat litter, which the rodents can smell from very far away.

I really thought that needed to be explained. Like if I said "seat belt saves lives" and you told me your aunt got killed in a car accident when everyone was wearing a seat belt. Then mentioned that she was in the crosswalk and not in a vehicle.

What you're saying isn't wrong, you just didn't understand what people were saying and went off on a tangent.

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