Kiwi pest control is as follows.... if something furry tries to cross the road, hit it. As a general rule there are NO native small mammals, so ANYTHING seen crossing the road offers drivers an opertunity to PERSONALLY help the fight against alien species. I have never before seen so many people swerve to NOT avoid hitting something! The big money targets are possums, which are Aussie natives imported to control gorse (which is an invasive plant imported to control errosion) and rabbits, which got here because someone thought they were cute and then they did what rabbits with no preditors do... reproduce.
The rats and stoats (weasle) are farily good at avoiding the roads. The hedgehogs.... which are cute and prickly are not very fast moving little buggers, so people often slow down to admire how cute they actually are before hitting the accelerator and making hedgehog smear road pizza out of them! Weher as in the US they claimed that the streets are paved with gold... kiwi streets are definitely paved with mammal bits.
Oh, and for those who are actually checking up on me, life is good, but keep the emails coming.