Patent # 4,669,216

...Mice Hunting Techniques

Mice are hunted during the dry season from April up to early November. Men and especially boys have the responsibility of hunting mice. Catching mice requires tremendous skill and sometimes tenacity as when an individual is digging for the kabwanda that burrows really deep into solid dry hard clay soil. In this case the hunting party has do dig hard for long hours. The boys and men have to know what type of holes in the ground are likely to have what breed of mice, how to dig for them, how soil mixed with fresh mice urine smells like. If the odor is strong and fresh that is usually a good sign that the mice are in the hole. The boys have to know how to skillfully use short sticks or clubs, mphici, to strike the mice when they scramble out of the escape hole, known as mbuli, in their desperate search for new cover....

How to Cook Mice

The cooking of the mice is very simple. The mice are gutted, boiled in plain water for about half an hour and salted. They are then fire dried until they are nearly bone dry. Mice are never cooked any other way. In fact, there is a song among the Tumbuka, whose lyrics are in the Chewa or Nyanja language, which mocks a young modern housewife who did not know proper mouse cooking.

Ena sadziwa kuphika lelo Ku mbeba

Ena sadziwa kuphika lelo ku mbeba

Anyenzi, tomato, komweko lelo ku mbeba

Anyenzi, saladi, komweko lelo ku mbeba

Some do not know how to cook mice

Some do not know how to cook mice

Onion, tomatoes in the mice

Onion, cooking oil in the mice

In the song, the grave mistake the young housewife apparently committed was to assume she could add onions, tomatoes, and cooking oil to the mice. These ingredients are highly valued in modern popular Zambian cuisine such as beef and chicken stew. But they are a taboo in cooking mice.

Speaking of mousatizers, I took a Wilderness Survival class in college. We learned (via closed-circuit pre-recorded instruction) how to cook mice by packing them in mudballs and throwing them in a fire

I think this young chap has a good idea - cook it in an Anahat, on a skewer or in a bowl of some sort. Mice are good for you, but nobody has shown us how to cook them. The French people eat frogs and snails - it's not difficult to find a book telling you how to cook them. I have heard that somewhere mice are dipped in honey before they are cooked. On the Internet we can probably find people to tell us how to do that. Perhaps we can be the first to tell the world how to cook mice by the sun.

Pot Luck: Grilled Mice
...instructions for cooking mice, recipes for wild fish and game like Squirrel Fricasee and Juneau Icefield Go-Atter (woodrat) Stew

"High tech mousing that not only kills but crushes and incinerates the victim is offered in a trap devised by Texan Ted M. Moss. His enclosed apparatus lures a doomed rodent into a cylindrical chamber with bait. An electric eye senses the presence of the mouse and actuates a spring driven vertical harpoon that spears the creature on the spot. Once dead, the mouse is crushed between two flat metal plates to a thickness of about three-sixteenths of an inch and incinerated by an electric coil. The trap then automatically places another morsel in the bait chamber and resets itself to harpoon the next small intruder."

-Inventive Genius
Library of Curious and Unusual Facts
Time-Life books, 1991

To think that we deprived Westerners are allowed only three mouse feces per sack of flour!

United States Patent 6,865,843
Jordan, Sr. March 15, 2005
Portable electrical mouse trap

Abstract
A portable electrical mouse trap that has a housing in the shape of a cat to which a handle is attached. An interior cavity of the mouse trap contains a primary motion sensor near its entrance, a retractable primary gate, a reservoir of a fragrance that smells like fresh cheese, a secondary motion sensor near an entrance to the collection chamber, a retractable secondary gate and a vacuum source. The primary motion sensor and secondary motion sensor detect the presence of a mouse inside the interior cavity. The primary gate automatically opens when activated by the primary motion sensor and the secondary gate automatically opens when activated by the secondary motion sensor. A vacuum tube connects the vacuum source and collection chamber. The vacuum source sucks the mouse fully into the collection chamber and thereby suffocates it. A speaker informs a user when the collection chamber is full.

Oh yeah, real hard to find since it is the first link in the first post of General discussion classics It just happens to be my favorite thread.

Oh yeah, real hard to find since it is the first link in the first post of General discussion classics It just happens to be my favorite thread.

Now here I had impressed MB and you had to spoil it!

Now here I had impressed MB and you had to spoil it!

Now I know MB hasn't been reading my threads though.

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Patent # 4,669,216.Y
Titanium mouse vest piercing harpoon.
Sorry Entropy