Mountain Dew Turns Mice Into Jelly

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I use regular Coke to clean certain auto parts from the engine internals. Soak the item over night and then rinses it in luke warm water and use a mild soap to clean the gunk off. It has worked for the past 40 years.
 
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Wow I just finished a pop, and I am left to wonder how many mice fall into the pop
vats that never make it into cans or bottles? I won't be doing the pop thing for a
while, till i can get past the images.
 
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If Dew exterminates mice, I\ll buy a flat of 48!
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Where do you live that you have so many? If domestic cats can't solve the rodent problem then dogs are the solution, coyotes and foxes being the best at keeping rodents from Prairie Dogs down low in numbers. It is a self regulating relationship and coyotes only take real babies when they are left more exposed than the chickens in the hen-house. (equal to leaving them alone in the mall while you go for a beer or two)
Get a ferret and then you have control of your guests also. Some people would stand up to a German Shepherd in a fight, threaten to throw a ferret into their face and they start to imagine the critter getting under their very skin by eating it's way, and they hunt mice.
 
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damngrumpy said:
Wow I just finished a pop, and I am left to wonder how many mice fall into the pop
vats that never make it into cans or bottles? I won't be doing the pop thing for a
while, till i can get past the images.
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A certain amount of "protein" is acceptable in all food products.
 
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MHz said:
Where do you live that you have so many? If domestic cats can't solve the rodent problem then dogs are the solution, coyotes and foxes being the best at keeping rodents from Prairie Dogs down low in numbers. It is a self regulating relationship and coyotes only take real babies when they are left more exposed than the chickens in the hen-house. (equal to leaving them alone in the mall while you go for a beer or two)
Get a ferret and then you have control of your guests also. Some people would stand up to a German Shepherd in a fight, threaten to throw a ferret into their face and they start to imagine the critter getting under their very skin by eating it's way, and they hunt mice.
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Lack of snow cover accentuates problem. Please send ferrets and coyotes.

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Do you have any owls surplus to your needs?

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Do you have any owls surplus to your needs?
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That requires rebuilding forests and all that extra work. Perhaps a fleet of the new heat activated snares (throwing arm doubles as a clay pigeon tossed at the gun range would better suit your needs. (the motion sensor ones would enter a game of standoff more often than not) That same style could be used as a base for a business if you traveled a yearly route clearing the land of gophers, perhaps In the late fall so they do not recover over the winter.
 
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How about I keep working on the nuts and bolt end and you get in touch of them and we split it 85/15. 15% for me, 85% for you. Do you prefer copper snare wire or piano wire?
Since you are in the marketing end you may as well market the one for wild pigs (reality TV currently carries two such shows), rather than run each one down individually you use a larger snare with a screw anchor and some stainless steel rigging wire used for the snare-wire. All you would need to do is build a chicane they had to walk down and have the snare there. Even a trip-beam and a net might work in some cases, either way the hunt is happening 24/7 and it can go on until extermination if that is the goal. Snares are not intended to have the catch remain alive so forget selling the catch as food.
Still working on the one that self-loads after a catch, so far 1 seems to be it as things gets moved around in the moments after the snare is first sprung. A water hole would be a good place to set up many that are baited and modified so only pigs could get in. (as would be the case with any model)

The Dragon's Den guys insisted the snares go for the ankle rather than the neck, I can see their point but I couldn't see their point in having a bunch of 'humanly captured' ones that lose the limb the snare gets attached to. That is what a snare does, it cuts off the blood flow in such a war as to not be able to be loosened once it is initially tightened. They seemed to miss that point so negotiations failed at that point.
 
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