I've got mice!

[InsaneApache]

Was cleaning the kitchen this morning when I saw the tell tale signs of black cardumin seed like droppings on the window sill. So I go to the hardware shop to get some traps.

The guy was showing me all these fancy devices for catching them humanely. There were drop traps, sticky mats, that sort of thing. I informed him that I wasn't in a humane mood and that I wanted the little buggers dead. Not trapped, dead.

So I settled on the traditional 'little nipper' traps, with a refinement. They were made of brass. Fine I thought, I can wash the blood off them and use them over and over again.

I get home and try to set the traps. The hair trigger was too hairy and they kept snapping shut, narrowly missing breaking my fingers. Anyways, I managed to set them and put some nice chocolate biscuits on them. They like chocolate biscuits them mices.

I checked them from time to time, until I found that the biscuits had gone but the traps hadn't snapped shut. Little blighters. Anyroad, I was tired and so decided to go to bed, after I'd had one last peruse of the .Org.

The wife gets up and asks if I'd like a cup of tea. Of course I would, I'm an Englishman! I go down for my cuppa and lo-and-behold, one of the cunning little sods had wandered onto one of the empty traps. Dead but still warm, I took it outside and chucked it into the garden for some rooks breakfast.

Job's a gud 'un.

I felt the primeval power of the hunter surging through my veins. Drunk with power and bloodlust, I decided to make this post.

I shall keep you abreast of developements.

Any other mouse killers out there?

N.B. Christopher Walken, eat your heart out! :laugh4:

[Strike For The South]

I use my man grip to break them. That'll teach for finding warm shelter.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

The only way to kill mice is to sit in a dark kitchen with an air rifle, shooting at all shadows less than five inches long.

[Strike For The South]

The only way to kill mice is to sit in a dark kitchen with an air rifle, shooting at all shadows less than five inches long.

So Im guessing you do this fully clothed ~;)

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

So Im guessing you do this fully clothed ~;)

That was below the belt. :whip:

[Somebody Else]

Had some of the sticky traps a little while ago. They catch the buggers. They break their legs trying to free themselves. I found out about them (my flatmate 'phoned me from the next room whilst I was still in bed) hours after capture. They'd been struggling all night. I had to dispatch them with my boot. There's nothing humane about a sticky trap.

I don't like killing.

Best way to keep mice away is to remove the incentive. Surely? Trying to get flatmates to keep things in cupboards... Almost working.

Good thing I'm going into the profession I am. I'd hate for a killer to do so.

[Reverend Joe]

The only way to kill mice is to sit in a dark kitchen with an air rifle, shooting at all shadows less than five inches long.

Why an air rifle?


So Im guessing you do this fully clothed ~;)

And why clothed?

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Why an air rifle?

Anything larger than a .308 may dent my cupboards.

[Yoyoma1910]

Had some of the sticky traps a little while ago. They catch the buggers. They break their legs trying to free themselves. I found out about them (my flatmate 'phoned me from the next room whilst I was still in bed) hours after capture. They'd been struggling all night. I had to dispatch them with my boot. There's nothing humane about a sticky trap.

I don't like killing.

Best way to keep mice away is to remove the incentive. Surely? Trying to get flatmates to keep things in cupboards... Almost working.

Good thing I'm going into the profession I am. I'd hate for a killer to do so.



Glue traps work really good. Just sprinkle them with some nice nuts and biscuit bits (technically I would say cookie), and the little critters are stuck and dead. They're far more effective than snap traps. You might also catch a few six legged pests as well.

My experience with mice and cupboards, usually involves me finding the mice in them.

[White_eyes:D]

Yeah my buddy had one of those 'spring traps' turns out it didn't die and was crying out for some time.......my buddy ended up having no choice but to wrap it in a bag, then dump it into the toilet BACK WORDS and then watch it VERY slowly for about 10 minutes try to keep itself afloat with a broken back and a plastic bag over it's body. He then called me up and said "it's done" I was like WTH? you kill someone?(then he told me what happened to the rat...:laugh4:)

[Yoyoma1910]

Yeah my buddy had one of those 'spring traps' turns out it didn't die and was crying out for some time.......my buddy ended up having no choice but to wrap it in a bag, then dump it into the toilet BACK WORDS and then watch it VERY slowly for about 10 minutes try to keep itself afloat with a broken back and a plastic bag over it's body. He then called me up and said "it's done" I was like WTH? you kill someone?(then he told me what happened to the rat...:laugh4:)

He could have just clubbed it with a shoe, and been done in 10 seconds.

[White_eyes:D]

He could have just clubbed it with a shoe, and been done in 10 seconds.

I told him the same thing:shrug: but he can't even hurt a bug let alone a rat.......:furious3:

[Yoyoma1910]

I told him the same thing:shrug: but he can't even hurt a bug let alone a rat.......:furious3:

It seems that in the end he was far crueler. Trying to, what, flush a half dead rat down a toilet, while suffocating it with plastic? He was also about to end up with a clogged toilet.

[Strike For The South]

It seems that in the end he was far crueler. Trying to, what, flush a half dead rat down a toilet, while suffocating it with plastic? He was also about to end up with a clogged toilet.

:yes:

[seireikhaan]

Had mice in my dad's last residence for a little while. He picked up some kind of blue/green poison sort of stuff that we just left in the corners of the rooms where we knew the buggers would usually come out from. The bonus with this one is that you don't have to actually kill the sucker yourself, usually find them a few days later hidden behind a stove or something. Plus, than you can torment any females you dislike with the stiff body. :smash:

[Fragony]

Cages work fine. Could also get a cat. Females are best they tend to be homicidal maniacs less lazy

[Yoyoma1910]

Had mice in my dad's last residence for a little while. He picked up some kind of blue/green poison sort of stuff that we just left in the corners of the rooms where we knew the buggers would usually come out from. The bonus with this one is that you don't have to actually kill the sucker yourself, usually find them a few days later hidden behind a stove or something. Plus, than you can torment any females you dislike with the stiff body. :smash:

:clown:Yeah, but it ruins the flavor.:clown:

[Husar]

Mustard gas.

Or Zyklon B. :hide:

[Yoyoma1910]

Mustard gas.


What about just mustard, on hot dogs.


Tons of it.



The slow death of obesity and cholesterol.

[cmacq]

I have the time-tested remedy for what ails ya, and it works like magic every time. It’s called the bucket’o-death and it involves an empty food can with the outside smeared with peanut butter, a half-filled metal bucket of water, and a short wooden slat. By the way, Peanut Butter is the chieftain of the rodent race. Actually, mice don't seem to be able to resist the Peanut Butter, like some Crack Head jonesin for a fix, I suppose? You may be surprised at the number of mice you find in the bottom of the bucket each morning. I know I was.


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Water

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CmacQ

[Subedei]

Ain´t mice "hording"? U know- rat pack - mice pack.....

Beware of the revenge of the surpressed rodents!

evil :laugh4:

For now, sleep well!

[AlexanderSextus]

Could also get a cat.

once again I agree with the dutchman. Lighting a spliff for him right now.

At least you're dealing with them naturally. Those sticky traps and the snap traps are freakin horrible.

I only use the humane traps. Mice are harmless little animals who's only detriment to our living is the fact that they take a dump after they eat just like us. Oh, and the fact that they may eat our food. Honestly i think decapitation or self induced breaking of their legs is terrible and definately not a fit punishment for the crime. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

honestly, is it really that hard to catch all of them in a trap door cage and then set them free in a park somewhere? are you people that lazy?

I mean, they're tiny little furry animals, not genuinely harmful animals like termites or carpenter ants or cockroaches. If you found a wild hamster in your house you would kill that too????

[InsaneApache]

Err...no. Mice are vectors of disease.


Rodents, such as mice, hamsters and guinea pigs, are popular as pets in many households. However, not all rodents that enter homes are intended as pets: some rodents are brought into homes as feed for other animals (e.g., pet snakes), and others, such as the house mouse, are pests that find their own way into homes. This fact sheet is intended to provide information about lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), which can be transmitted to humans by rodents, including wild and pet mice, hamsters, and, on occasion, guinea pigs.
What is LCMV?

LCMV is carried by rodents and can be passed to humans. Not all people who are exposed to the virus become ill. Signs and symptoms of LCMV infection are similar to those for influenza and include fever, stiff neck, malaise, anorexia (lack of appetite), muscle aches, headache, nausea, and vomiting. Symptoms occur 1–2 weeks after exposure.
How is LCMV transmitted to humans?

The house mouse, a wild rodent found near and in homes, is the primary host of this virus. Humans can develop LCMV infection from exposure to rodent urine, droppings, saliva, or nesting material of infected rodents. Virus transmission can also occur when these materials are directly introduced into broken skin or into the nose, eyes, or mouth or by a bite from an infected animal. Pet rodents, such as hamsters and guinea pigs, can become infected with LCMV after being in contact with wild rodents at a breeding facility, pet store, or home. Human infections from pet rodents are rare.

http://www.cdc.gov/HEALTHYPETS/lcmv_rodents.htm

Besides which I don't want pee and poo all over the worksurfaces, no matter how small and cuddly the origin.

[Maion Maroneios]

I got one this year, it was the mid February and I was at my (empty) father's hotel to study for my last school year.

So I got inside and suddenly our cat shot inside before I could close the door like lightning, so I was kind of surprised. I followed her (our cat) and I found out she was chasing a mouse around. When I shooed the cat outside, I searched the whole bottom floor until I finally found the little bugger hiding behind a fridge. So I moved the fridge and the mouse started running for it's dear life until I moved my foot in order to block it's path... *Crunch* I killed the poor guy... Accidentaly,that is but still.

Well, that's my mouse-killing story:tongue:

Maion

[Fragony]

The terror of rodents, my cat Blitzkrieg.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/Fragony/Blitzkrieg001-1.jpg

quik, easy, and messy. I love it when he has a present for me in the morning, nothing better then waking up with dead animals on your pillow. What a guy.

[Rhyfelwyr]

I will get my trusty bandinet, with which I managed to catch a rabbit once. But I was quite young at the time and I wouldn't let my dad kill it so he had to take it up to some park somewhere. :laugh4:

[drone]

Never had mice before, but a dumphouse I was staying at in college had a rat make it's presence known. This was downtown Atlanta, which did/does have a rat problem (kicking trash cans at night always got a few scurrying). And the house hygiene was, shall we say, less than stellar. :creep:

So we did what any bunch of drunken college kids would do. Bought one of these bad boys (http://www.victorpest.com/store/rodent-control/M201) . Wrote messages to the rat on it ("Don't worry, it's just cheese!", "Surprise, You're Dead!", that sort of nonsense). Spent a good hour alternating between narrowly breaking our fingers setting the trap, and throwing pennies at it to make it jump in the air (the rat version of the snap trap is pretty impressive). Then we put peanut butter on it, set it near the hole, and went to a concert.

We came back to a foot-long nose-to-tail rat with a crushed skull and a decent sized pool of blood. :yes: Pitched the rat, and drank beer til dawn in celebration. :medievalcheers:

[Louis VI the Fat]

I would take my cue from medieval warfare. Rodents touching my food? Can't touch this (http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Ya6z-NlDo&feature=related)

[Banquo's Ghost]

The only way to kill mice is to sit in a dark kitchen with an air rifle, shooting at all shadows less than five inches long.

Havermeyer!!! (http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Havermeyer-(Catch-22))

My esteemed parent considered the best way to rid a house of mice was to wait up at night, trap one under a bowl, and then paint its tail yellow. His theory was that the poor blighter was so ashamed, and the potential social implications for its place in society so immense, that it would leave with its entire family that night for some foreign shore where it might one day find acceptance.

He claimed many times that this was the reason for the micelessness of our house. Personally, my money has always been on the cats.

[Hooahguy]

I would take my cue from medieval warfare. Rodents touching my food? Can't touch this (http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Ya6z-NlDo&feature=related)
that... is... the.... best.... trap... ever....

[Yoyoma1910]

that... is... the.... best.... trap... ever....


Really?



Have you considered the consequences of inside usage?



Do you how hard it is to get dried mouse blood off indoor paint, much less carpet?

[Thermal]

we had them about a year back, we tried the 'humane' way first, ultraviolet waves that supposedly hurt there ears, but they were useless and didnt work so we went for the traditional mouse trap and put chocolate spread on them, it worked, not so great for my dad who had to clear them up, there were like 7 of them! and i hate rhodants

[Tristuskhan]

An hungry cat is the best way to go, definitely. Too bad mine is too busy chasing mice and birds and moles and rabbits in the meadows around. But let snow and cold come and the two mice wandering in the attic will die.

[Megas Methuselah]

Oh, I love that trap Louis presented. Awesome... And this thread is a great laugh, too. Seeing AS complain about needless cruelty only got me laughing again! :laugh4:

Anyways, we had a mouse problem at my house a while back. Killed off a whole clan of the scum-bags. My uncle came over with a bunch of snap-traps, and we got about 9 of them. I slapshot the first one with my hockey stick (heh heh, Canadians find many different uses for those), then realized we had a bigger problem as I noticed my dog was afraid to go eat his food in the kitchen (what kind of a dog is afraid of mice? What a coward...).

To continue the story, my uncle set up the snap-traps in the kitchen cupboards, and used peanut butter as bait. We ate lunch and supper amid the loud snappings and crackings coming from the kitchen. Afterwards, I nicknamed my gool'ole uncle The Exterminator when we were cleaning up the mess, as this one pregnant mouse he was cleaning up got its skull smashed in the trap and left a bloody mess. :laugh4::laugh4::laugh4:

Btw, I didn't lie or exaggerate this story in any way. This was a year ago, I think... Yeah, last winter.

[KukriKhan]

Had 'em last year. Frau Kukri noticed the signs first (nibbled fruit), so went out and bought the humane green li'l "here, mouse, eat me, and take some home to the missus and kids" cake-looking stuff.

No apparent reduction in population.

Next, she got the sticky-pad thingees, and caught a couple - but couldn't stand the noises (screams?) they made trying to extract themselves for hours.

Cue: the hubby, who disposes of the debris and gets a half-dozen old-fashioned neck-busters - baited with peanut butter.

That third night... *Snap!* "Ooh, ewww!" is the response.

Second *Snap!* = "Uuuuu, another one.".

Third, fourth, and subsequent *Snap!*'s got: "Heheh". Even a pacifist has her limits. :)

I left the corpses out all night as a message, then cleaned up at dawn, before Missus got her coffee.

No trouble so far this year. But Mrs. K has the rodent WMD's ready at hand under the sink, her squeamishness gone now.

[Megas Methuselah]

But couldn't stand the noises (screams?) they made trying to extract themselves for hours...

...I left the corpses out all night as a message.

:laugh4::laugh4::laugh4::laugh4::laugh4::laugh4:

[||Lz3||]

I once caught 4 mice in ONE rat sticky trap :cool4:

[Hosakawa Tito]

We get the dang things every late fall/early winter. Peanut butter is definitely the best bait being so sticky they have to work at stealing it and eventually trip the trap. I forgot to check a trap in the basement for a few days and it seems the victim was cannibalized by his "friends", so I don't think leaving the corpses about as a warning is a good idea...just another food source. My old cat, Piss Pot, used to be such a killer. Now he's too old,fat,lazy to even be bothered when the mice are stealing his food. Probably just as well. I used to have to spend a fortune on worm medicine for him from eating/partially eating his victims. And I don't miss the mouse gut presents/tribute he used to leave me either, nothing like stepping on a pile of mouse guts in your bare feet first thing in the morning. I love that squirrel catapult vid that Louis posted. I wonder if it would work on woodchucks...

[{BHC}HolySpagetty]

I once caught 4 mice in ONE rat sticky trap :cool4:

Woah..

Did one rat get stuck, call for his friend, then his friend gets stuck trying to help, then he calls a friend, and so on until there are no friends and they're all stuck?

All in all, I'm glad I live in Florida.

No rats here, just mosquitoes.

Darn bugs are soo annoying.. :furious3:

[Martok]

I grew up dealing with mice, living in the country. Even now, my dad (who still lives in that house) has no less than a dozen of the old-fashioned "neck-busters" (as Kukri so eloquently coined them ~D) scattered around his basement. There's probably not a week goes by that he doesn't dispose of at least one of the little buggers. :whip:

[Megas Methuselah]

I hate it when the kill isn't clean. Thankfully, I never had to clean up a bloody mess, but I sure witnessed one... :skull:

[Fragony]

Next, she got the sticky-pad thingees, and caught a couple - but couldn't stand the noises (screams?) they made trying to extract themselves for hours.


That's horrible :no:

[Megas Methuselah]

Oh, come now, Fragoney. Put on some jackboots and enjoy it. :laugh4:

[LittleGrizzly]

Aww poor mice... sounds like they have been suffering a bit...

I have only ever once found one in the house, im fairly sure my cat brought it in, he was there playing with it at least, i saw the little mouse and he looked terrified so first i shooed the cat away, i then realised i didn't actually want to pick the mouse up with my bare hands (and it was a risk he would get away if i left to get some tissue to pick him back up with) so i managed to convince my cat to pick the mouse back up (he did see it more as a toy than as a meal) with a bit of encouragment and every time he'd pick him up i would get him to move towards the back door, he kept putting him back down so it took a few minutes, he then put the mouse down outside and i locked the cat up inside, he didn't move at first but when i went out later he was gone....

So only 1 humane (bar the fact the cat used his mouth to transport the mouse) mouse removal story from grizz

From the advice here those sticky traps seem the worst of all....

[InsaneApache]

Well here's an update...

It's been a good weekend for me, Yorkshires new champion mousekiller, but a bad one for our furry friends. Four crushed skulls and one broken leg versus one slightley bruised finger.

One went off last night whilst I was partaking of a cup of tea in the kitchen. The trap was on the window sill and fell behind the freezer. I recoverd the cadaver with the aid of a sweeping brush and picked up the trap. My Samoyed went nuts and ran under the table to escape. :laugh4:

I disposed of the body with my usual panache, i.e. I fed it to the rooks. I think our resident vultures are warming to my garden. :yes:

When I went back in my Samoyed was looking furtively behind the freezer to see if any others were lurking there, ready to go for her throat! :laugh4: She's a mardy bugger.

Onwards and upwards to mouse armageddon. :skull:

[Gregoshi]

Onwards and upwards to mouse armageddon. :skull:
With Weapons of Mouse Destruction...

[Louis VI the Fat]

With Weapons of Mouse Destruction...Yay! The micestro strikes again! :beam:

[Hosakawa Tito]

Uh oh, we might be in trouble....MM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYpBoYa4pno)

[Vladimir]

Havermeyer!!! (http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Havermeyer-(Catch-22))

My esteemed parent considered the best way to rid a house of mice was to wait up at night, trap one under a bowl, and then paint its tail yellow. His theory was that the poor blighter was so ashamed, and the potential social implications for its place in society so immense, that it would leave with its entire family that night for some foreign shore where it might one day find acceptance.

He claimed many times that this was the reason for the micelessness of our house. Personally, my money has always been on the cats.

Valuable insight on Banquo's upbringing. This will contribute well to the psychoanalysis. :sneaky:


I left the corpses out all night as a message, then cleaned up at dawn, before Missus got her coffee.

Interesting. Did you consider mounting their heads on pikes? (toothpick)

[Fragony]

Oh, come now, Fragoney. Put on some jackboots and enjoy it. :laugh4:

I killed a injured dove when I was 8 and it still haunts me :laugh4:

My mother told me that my father once went on a rabbit-hunt, he shot one and cried for 3 days because he couldn't get the sound out of his head. I'm his boy.

[Yoyoma1910]

Uh oh, we might be in trouble....MM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYpBoYa4pno)



That was a weird series.. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgmf9MQl30A).

[yesdachi]

We had mice once at an apartment downtown. Thought maybe just a few, nope, a dozen! All caught and thrown out with the neck-snappers. We would be lying in bed and hear “SNAP” and know that we got another one. It was surprising how effective they are. With peanut butter as bait we got 3 in one night in the same spot.

I don’t know if it worked but my grand mother told us to put a couple ugly fruit in the corners of the rooms/closets where they were and the mice would stay away from the smell of the fruit. We put them around but I couldn’t tell you if it helped to keep them away or if we just killed them all. Either way we didn’t have anymore mice.


"SNAP" :2thumbsup:

[Maion Maroneios]

we had them about a year back, we tried the 'humane' way first, ultraviolet waves that supposedly hurt there ears, but they were useless and didnt work so we went for the traditional mouse trap and put chocolate spread on them, it worked, not so great for my dad who had to clear them up, there were like 7 of them! and i hate rhodants
Lol, I think you meant supersonic soundwaves mate:laugh4: Ultraviolet waves (or radiation) are really cancerous (and not only) and the no.1 reason for skin cancer, sent upon us by our beloved sun.

No offense here mate, just pointing out:2thumbsup:

Maion

[Thermal]

Lol, I think you meant supersonic soundwaves mate:laugh4: Ultraviolet waves (or radiation) are really cancerous (and not only) and the no.1 reason for skin cancer, sent upon us by our beloved sun.

No offense here mate, just pointing out:2thumbsup:

Maion

no offense taken, it made me laugh
i mean ...ahem---urr....it was a joke rlly, ur.... :clown:

[Reverend Joe]

Wait... how about microwaves?

Mmmm... mouse popcorn... plus I hear it works with roaches.

[Megas Methuselah]

Devouring rodents is a barbaric practice. :no:





And I would love to try it sometime...

[KukriKhan]

Devouring rodents is a barbaric practice. :no:





And I would love to try it sometime...

Just add ketchup.

[LittleGrizzly]

If cooked rodent is good enough for Ghengis Khan's grandparents then its good enough for me!!

[KukriKhan]

Valuable insight on Banquo's upbringing. This will contribute well to the psychoanalysis. :sneaky:



Interesting. Did you consider mounting their heads on pikes? (toothpick)

Did, but there wasn't much remaining of the craniums. Then I thought "Tie 2 toothpix together at right angles and hang 'em on that." But, taking a smoke-break outside, I saw Venus & Jupiter hanging out together with the moon, and saw the Wise Men display across the street - and decided not to play P.Pilate. Just in case, yanno?

[spmetla]

I tried just about all methods of rat killing except poison. I'd say my favorite are cage traps, smear some chunky peanut butter on the the latch and you'll get yourself a rat/mouse. Because I used to have a cat I'd then call Speedy out and let the rat loose in front of him (outside of course).

Speedy of course was a good rat catcher but couldn't patrol areas in which I put traps (ceilings), in cabinets, etc...

As for snap traps, they're very effective but I'm not good at setting the damn things, for some reason those large snap traps go off in my hand just as I'm trying to ease them in place. It startles the hell out of me and frustrates me to no end after a few failed tries.

Glue traps work really well but I don't like them, nasty as they are I prefer not to see furry things stuck in glue. Also I kill them by drowning them in a bucket of water which is not much fun either. There's also the matter of cost, other traps you can use till they break and I don't feel like trying to 'reset' a glue trap.

Electric traps are also good but they do take batteries and sometimes they don't seem to be shorted or something and fail to kill as they should.

Reason I haven't used poison is that I don't want them dieing in some inaccessible location and stinking up the house. Also I didn't want my cat eating a poisoned rat.

@Hosa How can you not like the tribute?!?! I don't eat it of course but I enjoy being acknowledged as 'king.'


Interesting. Did you consider mounting their heads on pikes? (toothpick)
Didn't Vlad the Impaler do that to mice while he was imprisoned in Hungary?

[Yoyoma1910]

I've never eaten rat or mouse, but I have had squirrel and nutria.


It tastes a lot like rabbit.

[Megas Methuselah]

I've heard a lot of good stuff about rabbit stew. The animal/thing must taste awesome... :2thumbsup:

[InsaneApache]

Rabbit stew is indeed tasty. Cheap as chips at £2 a throw as well in these belt tightening times. Yummy!

Just found #5, again behind the freezer. Cause of death, a caved in head. :laugh4:

[Fragony]

I've heard a lot of good stuff about rabbit stew. The animal/thing must taste awesome... :2thumbsup:

It isn't for everyone, the meat is a bit slimy and it has a rather distinct taste. Not too fond of it myself really.

[Yoyoma1910]

It isn't for everyone, the meat is a bit slimy and it has a rather distinct taste. Not too fond of it myself really.

Domestic rabbit has a texture similar to other herbivorous small animals or chickens (though more like a mixture between pork and chicken), and isn't overly greasy. Wild hare can be a bit greasy, or more so the fat isn't considered pleasant by some.


This is a common problem with much wild game. To alleviate this issue there are a few options. 1) Skin the animal before cooking. 2) Soak the carcass in a Brine solution before cooking. This allows salts to bond to the fats, and gives it a more pleasant flavor.

[Megas Methuselah]

It isn't for everyone, the meat is a bit slimy and it has a rather distinct taste. Not too fond of it myself really.

... Dude, you are waaaay too soft. We should go hunting and whoring sometime. Maybe the masculine activies will harden you into a man. :clown:

Thx for the tip, Yoyoma. Btw, what's a Brine solution?

[Pannonian]

... Dude, you are waaaay too soft. We should go hunting and whoring sometime. Maybe the masculine activies will harden you into a man. :clown:

Thx for the tip, Yoyoma. Btw, what's a Brine solution?
Brine = salt + water.

[Megas Methuselah]

Thx. Why didn't he say so? I speak English, not gibberish! :clown:

[Yoyoma1910]

Thx. Why didn't he say so? I speak English, not gibberish! :clown:


Ewe spk sumthn.

[Megas Methuselah]

Ewe spk sumthn.

Quoi? :laugh4:

[Yoyoma1910]

Anyway, Brine is the common term in cooking, so you might as well start learin' proper.

[spmetla]

https://img155.imageshack.us/img155/6674/infeztationfw2.jpg

[Pannonian]

Anyway, Brine is the common term in cooking, so you might as well start learin' proper.
What does learin' mean in cooking? Does it involve tasting three ingredients, seeing which is the most palatable, and opting for the preferred two?

[Yoyoma1910]

What does learin' mean in cooking? Does it involve tasting three ingredients, seeing which is the most palatable, and opting for the preferred two?


In my culture it means taking things that no one else will eat, and making them the most delicious thing on the planet.

[Strike For The South]

A cajun giving cooking lessons to yankees and europeans. This can only go awesome.

[Hosakawa Tito]

A cajun giving cooking lessons to yankees and europeans. This can only go awesome.

Yeah, the art of cooking swamp creatures so they don't taste like mud and rotting vegetation. Pass the cayenne pepper I guarantee. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb_xlciQZP8&feature=related)

[InsaneApache]

#6.

[Yoyoma1910]

We're discussing culinary nuances in a thread about catching rodents, what do you expect?


Anyway, here's a recipe I found from a Canadian classic: The Northern Cookbook, which if you can ever get a hold of has recipes for all sorts of crazy criters, from Skunk to Reindeer to Grizzly Bear!


Personally, I'd take this recipe in another direction, and it isn't my favorite, but this seems like a good neutral recipe. It will also give you a good start in small game and trap mammals. Note, as I had mentioned with hare, it says to skin the animal, remove the fat, and use a brine solution.

Feel free to suppliment Muskrat with whatever small game or trap animal you happen to catch (such as hare).





Smothered Muskrat and Onions

1 Muskrat
1 tb -Salt
1 qt -Water; Canadian qt=5 cups
1 1/2 ts -Salt
1/4 ts Paprika
1/2 c Flour
3 tb Fat
3 lg Onions; sliced
1 c Sour cream

Skin and clean the muskrat, remove fat, scent glands and white tissue
inside each leg.
Soak muskrat overnight in a weak brine solution of 1 Tbsp salt to 1 qt
(Imperial qt = 5 cups) water. Drain, disjoint and cut up.
Put flour, salt & paprika in a paper bag. Add muskrat pieces and shake
until each piece is well coated.
Melt fat in heavy fry pan, add the muskrat pieces and sauté slowly until
browned.
When meat is browned, cover with onions, sprinkle with salt and pepper and
pour the cream over.
Cover fry pan and simmer for 1 hour.
SERVES: 4

[Fragony]

... Dude, you are waaaay too soft. We should go hunting and whoring sometime.

but..... :sweatdrop:

[Megas Methuselah]

but..... :sweatdrop:

Yeah, I know. Life is good! :laugh4:

[AlexanderSextus]

https://img155.imageshack.us/img155/6674/infeztationfw2.jpg

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