Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-01-20 | Page 1 | Cats Retreat in Mice Rush

OATS CATS RETREAT IN MICE hilGE r ICE RUSH Mouse Hor Horde e Decreased By Use of Poisoned Grain BAKERSFIELD Calif Jan 20 By By The Th At Associated Press Press- Pros Th The cat cats of ot Kern county county's lowland area are arc having ha experience experiences which rarely ly or never comes Into th the feine fe lne existence They are arc ine retreat retreat- retreatIng retreating Ing In iii fear and contusion confusion before the tumbling herds of ot mic mice have Infested an area ot of 96 it square miles around Taft Maricopa Fel Fellow lows low and Ford lord City Merced has thrown a small army ot of cats cat from its city pound Into the area to reinforce the local Ic- Ic fe feline lines line The Th Invading hordes bordes weN reported as a diminishing today but not from the efforts of the cats ats cat poisoned grain train sprinkled In no new newly ly Iy plowed plo furrows across the path ot of the rodent migration Is killing killing- them by the tens ot of thousands The Tho cats run away when they see ee a drove dreve of ot mice coming sold said Sam Whitmore a resident In the Infested valley who I Is taking apart II a apart part in putting down the mice The cats also refuse to eat them The tabbies seem scent to be nauseated d dat at the sight of ot a a mouse Poison polson barrages of grain crain are maintained constantly by Whit Whit more more Ills his Ill homeI home homo Is I In the direct Ine of ot the tho migration and one ot of the big biff jobs has been to bury the rodents killed by the tho tens tenil ot of thousands with the tho poisoned grain grain Each morning morning- the first Job Is to clear the th house bouse and of dead mice and then th the yard and surroundings and th the task I Is IsIL isa IL a tremendous one ho he said alJ lic He declared the tho mice become play ful tul after afLer eating one or er two poisoned grains and then as ax each grain following I Is taken they stag stag- stagger tc ger er 1 mi as If Intoxicated After eating Ulo Uio sixth alth kernel they die