Acting Australian Prime Minister Says Mice Should Be Rehomed In Animal Activist's Homes

The acting Prime Minister of Australia has erupted at animal rights activists complaining about the mice plague.

Millions of mice have invaded rural and regional parts of eastern Australia and they've caused more than a billion dollars worth of damage.

Farmers and homeowners are using all sorts of methods to kill them and groups like PETA have urged them to be more kind and considerate to their suffering.

Instead of being killed in drum traps or poisoned with 'mice napalm', PETA suggested affected landowners should try to rehome them somewhere else (however that would only make it someone else's problem).

But Michael McCormack, who is in charge of the county while Scott Morrison attends the G7 summit in the UK, has lashed out at those sentiments during a bizarre statement to parliament.

The Nationals leader said: "There is nothing worse than the stench of mice, nothing worse than having mice eat your grain, mice running around your house, farm and factory.

"And we have PETA coming out, and I didn't hear the member for Melbourne disendorsing them saying the poor little curious creatures, the mice, should be rehomed.

"I agree they should be rehomed, into their inner city apartments so they can nibble away at their food and their feet at night and scratch their children at night.

"This is a disgrace by PETA. We always stand ready to help our farmers."

He was specifically taking aim at PETA spokeswoman Aleesha Naxakis, who made the passionate plea to not kill the mice so barbarically.

"Our common advice to rodent overpopulation is, of course, to avoid poison which subjects these animals to unbearably painful deaths but also pose the risk of spreading bacteria, and there are alternatives which exist," she said. "It is so unfair that these mice are going to suffer these horrible deaths."

She probably wouldn't have taken kindly to the farmer who went viral for killing mice in a new way to his counterparts.

Andrew uploaded a video of him emptying his auger, which is a 'corkscrew-like farming machine'. The mice had climbed into it after it was used to pump grain into a silo and they munched on any food that was left over.

Andrew decided to clean out the machine over a barrel of flames.

He uploaded a video of him doing this to his TikTok account and it's very clear the mice are still alive when they fell into the pit of fire.

Some scampered off after hitting the ground, however many fell directly into the open flames, where they died a painful death.

Featured Image Credit: PA

Topics: Australia

Stewart Perrie

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