# Is there any real danger in making a meal of captured house mice? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-real-danger-in-making-a-meal-of-captured-house-mice/494576 "2009-04-28T01:08:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-real-danger-in-making-a-meal-of-captured-house-mice/494576/41 "2009-04-30T02:38:37Z")
Honestly, if things got bad enough that I was considering eating rodent, I’d go to a reliable labratory mouse/rat breeder, over catching and eating urban mice. No telling what they’ve eaten or are carrying. I wouldn’t even let my cats eat a mouse if they caught it, for that reason. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-real-danger-in-making-a-meal-of-captured-house-mice/494576/42 "2009-04-30T02:46:40Z")
> [@Zabali\_Clawbane](#): > > Honestly, if things got bad enough that I was considering eating rodent, I’d go to a reliable labratory mouse/rat breeder, over catching and eating urban mice. No telling what they’ve eaten or are carrying. I wouldn’t even let my cats eat a mouse if they caught it, for that reason. The rats used in the film _Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade_ (to refresh your memory or for anyone who hasn’t seen it Indie and The Girl wind up in flooded catacombs under Venice [?] that are home to as many rats as there were snakes in _Lost Ark_) were specially bred in laboratories to look like actual sewer rats but to be free of disease, which was a good thing since the actors were bitten numerous times. After the movie they were donated to laboratories (save for a few who made it to the Screen Actors Country Home). ---
**Author:** ![bink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@bink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bink)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-real-danger-in-making-a-meal-of-captured-house-mice/494576/43 "2009-04-30T03:56:51Z")
Eek! No! Read the book _Rancid Pansies_ by James Hamilton-Paterson. (Really, you should read his _Cooking With Fernet Branca_ and _Amazing Disgrace_ first, but it seems time is of the essence here.) ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-real-danger-in-making-a-meal-of-captured-house-mice/494576/44 "2009-04-30T04:27:15Z")
Whoa, did **Bryan Ekers** just reveal himself to be [Frank Abagnale Jr.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale)? :eek: ([Last 15 seconds here.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mojdlhpm8D0&feature=related)) CMC fnord! :eek: EEK! :eek: never has a thread and a smiley gone so well together! Speaking of _Never Cry Wolf_ anybody know how long Farley Mowat was on that mice only diet? ---
**Author:** ![miamouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@miamouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miamouse)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-real-danger-in-making-a-meal-of-captured-house-mice/494576/45 "2009-04-30T04:51:45Z")
funny, I was walking through the park the other day and was wondering the same thing about pigeons… do they carry diseases that wouldn’t be killed by a turn in the crock pot? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-real-danger-in-making-a-meal-of-captured-house-mice/494576/46 "2009-04-30T11:41:59Z")
You can always make “s’mice” . . . First, feed a live mouse a graham cracker. Then impale it with a stick, add chocolate and a marshmallow, and heat it over a camp fire. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-real-danger-in-making-a-meal-of-captured-house-mice/494576/47 "2009-04-30T14:30:34Z")
> [@miamouse](#): > > funny, I was walking through the park the other day and was wondering the same thing about pigeons… do they carry diseases that wouldn’t be killed by a turn in the crock pot? Yes, lots of them, that cause things like meningitis, tuberculosis and pneumonia. Wild birds in general are NASTY, and pigeons, while adorable, are some of the worst of the lot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-real-danger-in-making-a-meal-of-captured-house-mice/494576.md?page=2)