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How to Use Soft Drinks To Kill Mice and Rats

Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 4:54 pm
by roster
How to Use Soft Drinks To Kill Mice and Rats

By Janet Ford

Things You’ll Need:

* Pepsi or Coke


Step 1
Mice and rats lack the ability to burp. You can use this to your advantage - and the demise of the rats and mice.
Step 2
Pour pepsi or coke into a shallow dish.
Step 3
Place dish near where the mice or rats are entering/exiting your home frequently.
Step 4
The rodents will drink the sweet soft drink and later, when they can't burp, they will die.
Why do so many thing remind me about cpap-induced aerophagia?


Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 5:09 pm
by LavenderMist
lmao. Good one Rooster.

Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 5:22 pm
by roster
LavenderMist wrote:lmao. Good one Rooster.
No, more like bmao.

Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 8:14 pm
by Babette
IS THIS TRUE??? Can I get rid of rodents with Pepsi? Will the Squirrels explode if I feed it to them?

And what about... wait for it.... GOPHERS????

You know all us CaddyShack fans wanna know....

And what happens if you leave a trail of MENTOS leading up to the shallow dish of carbonated beverages and the rodents eat the Mentos and then drink the carbonated beverage???? Hmmmmmm???????

I smell a YouTube video coming on....

One thing we've all missed here, however... They may not BURP, but I'll bet they can FART!!!!

LOL,
Babs


Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 8:45 pm
by trice54
Heh heh....when there is a crazy topic, it is inevitably YOU as the author, Rooster! Trice

Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 8:48 pm
by Bonnie
We always were looking for natural ways to get rid of critters without chemicals when I had my horse business. I read that if you put out a shallow dish of instant mashed potato flakes mice will eat the flakes, drink water, expand and die. Problem I had with this was no matter where I tried to hide it my food monger Ladrador always found it so I never did find out if it worked.

Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 11:23 pm
by Wrenna
Bonnie wrote:We always were looking for natural ways to get rid of critters without chemicals when I had my horse business. I read that if you put out a shallow dish of instant mashed potato flakes mice will eat the flakes, drink water, expand and die. Problem I had with this was no matter where I tried to hide it my food monger Ladrador always found it so I never did find out if it worked.
Well, it obviously didn't work on your Lab!

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 5:28 am
by dsm
Wrenna wrote:
Bonnie wrote:We always were looking for natural ways to get rid of critters without chemicals when I had my horse business. I read that if you put out a shallow dish of instant mashed potato flakes mice will eat the flakes, drink water, expand and die. Problem I had with this was no matter where I tried to hide it my food monger Ladrador always found it so I never did find out if it worked.
Well, it obviously didn't work on your Lab!
As you say didn't work on the lab - why ? ...

dogs can f*** (break wind)

D

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 5:59 am
by ColinP
dsm wrote:dogs can f*** (break wind)
They sure can...

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 6:06 am
by alnhwrd
So, who had enough time on their hands to actually find out if mice burp or not? And what kind of mind really cares?

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 8:20 am
by BarryKaraoke
The general consensus on Snopes is Urban Legend.

It seems that Rats can fart too.

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 8:35 am
by NightHawkeye
dsm wrote:As you say didn't work on the lab - why ? ...

dogs can f*** (break wind)
More importantly, dogs can BELCH!!! (... wishing for clothespin-nosed emoticon here)

I have verified, with my own dog, that Labs can belch ...

Regards,
Bill (who is still wondering if it's true that rodents cannot belch ... )

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 3:34 pm
by HelpMeBreath
Supposedly this is true of seagulls and alka seltzer as well. Could be an urban legend. Im an animal lover so I wouldnt know.

I do however remember reading an article a year ago about a guy who threw a mouse in a bonfire and he caught on fire and ran back under the house and burned it down.

Be careful with this experiment, if youre wrong you might just have a bunch of mice under your bed with really bad gas..

Damn.. scanned over Barrys post too quickly.. Joke was already made.

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 6:37 pm
by roster
BarryKaraoke wrote:The general consensus on Snopes is Urban Legend.

It seems that Rats can fart too.
Yep Barry, I should have checked out Snopes first. For my trouble last night, this morning I was short about a liter of RC Cola and all the closets smelled like rat f***s.

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 7:36 pm
by Bonnie
Rat farts can't possibly come close to Labrador popcorn farts, now there's a really nasty odor.