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Figure 7-32. T-bar snare.
Mice and Rats
Don't forget to use your mouse and rat traps to help provide a relatively easy source of food, at
least until the rest of the neighborhood catches on to the fact that while they are out hunting for
big game that has made itself scarce, you are sitting at home feasting on tasty little varmints.
To be honest with you, I don't claim to be a gourmet chef when it comes to rats and mice.
According to Cody Lundin, a famous wilderness survival instructor, mice are best thrown dir-
ectly on the coals of a fire, and turned a few times to singe their fur. At this point, they will
swell up and you can split them open to get rid of their guts, saving the heart, lungs, and liver,
if you wish. Cook a bit longer on the coals, until the tail arms and legs pretty much burn off and
you have about three bites of decent food per mouse. Apparently during the summer months
arctic wolves feast on dozens of mice every day. If they can do it, so can you!
Cody says that rats are particularly yummy. Small rats can be cooked like mice, but the
large ones (more like cat sized) should be skinned and gutted prior to roasting on an open fire.
