EVERY few years, a plague of European house mice infests one of Australia’s grain regions. Roads turn into fur carpets of squashed mice. Millions of dollars’ worth of grain is eaten or spoiled. Homes and buildings are damaged. The only defence is poison, a slow painful death for the mice, and for any other animals that can get at the bait.
How much better it would be to have a kinder, gentler form of pest control, one that renders female mice infertile, preventing plagues before they start and leaving native wildlife untouched. And that is just what the Pest Animal…
