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).
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.)
Whoa, did Bryan Ekers just reveal himself to be Frank Abagnale Jr.? :eek: (Last 15 seconds here.)
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?
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?
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.
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.