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Mouse plague: Bromadiolone will obliterate mice, but it'll poison eagles, snakes and owls, too 1:46pm May 21, 2021 By Robert Davis, Bill Bateman, Damian Lettoof, Maggie J Watson and Michael Lohr It's the smell that hits you first. The scent of urine and decomposing bodies. Then you notice other signs: scuttles and squeaks, small dead bodies leaking blood, tails sticking out of hubcaps. If you've lived through a mouse plague, you've seen this, and smelled the stench of mice dying of poison baits. READ MORE: Masked owls could die from eating poisoned mice.(David Milledge) As a desperate measure...

As the mouse plague continues to ravage western New South Wales, pest control experts have played down fear...

"Millions of mice are going to be gasping for air, choking, bleeding internally," Ms Naxakis said. "Sometimes it takes days (for mice) to die a slow and painful death." Swarms of mice across western NSW and parts of Queensland have caused devastating damage to farms and homes, costing close to $100 million. The infestation is also taking a mental and emotional toll on farmers and residents fighting the plague. PETA's stance has irritated farmers whose crops, grain and hay stores have been eaten and destroyed by mice. Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack called PETA members "idiots who have...