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Rodent plague leaves Australia town covered in ‘carpet of mice’

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give a mouse a cookie — they might take over your town.Southeast Australia has been overrun by an ongoing plague of mice, which have attacked livestock, invaded residential homes and depleted supplies of mouse-killing accessories.“If you start noticing them, the numbers can build up very, very quickly,” Councillor Reg Kidd, mayor of Orange, New South Wales, told Prime7 of the pestilence.

Orange is one of many New South Wales towns that have been overrun by the the opportunistic vermin over the past two days. What’s being described as a bone-chilling “carpet of mice” appears to be tied to the weather.

Rain early last year may have led to a breeding frenzy — followed by a drought that potentially helped the populations flourish, said one.

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