Australia Parts of Australia are battling the “plague” of rats.
Most rural parts of New South Wales and Queensland are infested with millions of rats, which have taken over farmland, homes, stores, hospitals and cars. They are also eating everything in sight.
Reuters reports that the bumper grain crop in the region caused a surge in rats.
“You can imagine that every time you open a cupboard, every time you go to your pantry, there are rats present,” rat expert Steve Henry told the Wire Service. “And they’re eating in your food container, they’re fouling your pure linen in your linen cupboard, they’re running over your bed at night.”
They are also leaving behind haunted videos and images:
On one farm, the rats ate thousands of dollars worth of hay bales, so that they could reduce the dust in a week.
“It’s a real kick of courage,” Rowena Macray, a Cunamball farmer, told Queensland Country Life. “It’s very hard to see.”
“They stink, whether they’re alive or dead. Sometimes you can’t escape the smell,” Pip Goldsmith of Cunmball, who has trapped thousands of rats, told the Guardian Australia. “It’s oppressive, but we’re resilient.”
Lisa Gore of Toowoomba told the newspaper that her 12-year-old son scored 183 runs in a single night.
“It’s like his job at the moment,” he said. “He’s proud of himself.”
Local reports said the mouse population was steadily growing and attempts to poison the rats began to backfire as dead critics were turning into water tanks. According to ABC News in Block Australia, a homeowner in Elong Along, who was investigating the water barrier, smelled “anti”.
“We always filter the water going into our house from the tank so that for us, personally, we feel like we’ve covered our precautions so we don’t notice anything with taste.” “But the smell of rats on top of the tank was very disgusting.”
Public health officials are now warning of the possibility of bacteria in the water if dead rats remain in the tank.
Officials said a drop in temperature or heavy rain could kill most rats at any time.
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