I usually carry mousetraps in my camping kitchen cabinet, but I built a new one for this trip and they didn't get in there. Of course the mice came out as soon as the lantern was out, so I laid my frying pan upside down with a part of the rim hanging over a bucket with a couple of inches of water in the bottom. I stuck some sticky candy partway down the rim of the pan so that when a mouse tried to get it he would slip and end up drowning in the bucket. Caught two the first night.
Now I watch "Survivor man" an the other survivor idiot on the tube for giggles, and they almost never catch anything when they trap, so maybe this will help them. Now as to the culinary aspects of how they should be eaten I would not know whether they should be peeled before eating or eaten with the skin on, they would come pre-washed. These guys would probably know whether to cut off the hindquarters and throw them away or not too. It seems that the only qualification to be the star on one of these programs is the willingness to eat disgusting things and make a big show of it, so drowned mice should help their ratings a lot.
The inspiration for these shows may have come from Viet Nam where (mountainyard, don't know how to spell it) scouts with the platoons used to eat native foods the traditional way. I'm sure they did it to see if they could get the GIs faces to turn the same shade of green as their uniforms. I saw our scout catch small frogs and hold them in a fire by the back legs until they were a nice shade of black, then munch down on them with large grins, no eviserating or such niceties as that, just a live frog over the fire until he looked tastee.
