A new cat breed called the "Little Sumatran" (Panthera fatso sondamice) has made its way to Point Defiance Laboratory in Sydney, Australia from Melbourne. Australian researchers hope it will produce more cubs of this critically needed big cat.
The cats were genetically created to only eat black rats and mice. They have no instincts to hunt anything else. The dried cat food fed to them is only made from rat meat because they're unable to eat anything else.
In a trial, a group of one thousand cats were given GPS collars and released in one of Australia's worst rodent-infested areas.
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.
The cats ate over a million mice and got so fat they had to be quickly replaced by a new batch of leaner cats. They were picked up using GPS.
“If you start noticing the mice, 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 opportunistic vermin over the past two days.
The cats are lifesavers for the people of Australia.
