My great grandmother used to put out saucers of Coke to kill mice. She believed it worked because rodents can’t burp. I have no idea whether any of this is true.
I don’t know about rodents, but I know seagulls explode. When fed bread drenched in coke, their stomach explodes. I had a colleague in the navy who thought this was funny. Someone who tortures animals and is allowed to handle guns… At least I got him into trouble which forced him to stop harming seagulls.
No, you didn’t because they don’t. Birds don’t explode when fed anything that produces gas as they will simply vomit. This lie is up there with lads who “did some cow tipping in their day”. Stop spreading misinformation.
I imagine it must be some other mechanism of action? I find it hard to believe that the CO2 in that bit of coke could cause its stomach to expand to the point of explosion, but it does seem likely that there are some other ingredients in soda that are very harmful to birds
It’s just mildly acidic sugar water. There’s not enough of anything is an entire can of coke to kill a bird. Unless this bread was soaked in a fast acting poison, this story is 100% bullshit.
My great grandmother used to put out saucers of Coke to kill mice. She believed it worked because rodents can’t burp. I have no idea whether any of this is true.
Modern rodenticides use the fact that they cannot vomit, so it could be
I don’t know about rodents, but I know seagulls explode. When fed bread drenched in coke, their stomach explodes. I had a colleague in the navy who thought this was funny. Someone who tortures animals and is allowed to handle guns… At least I got him into trouble which forced him to stop harming seagulls.
No, you didn’t because they don’t. Birds don’t explode when fed anything that produces gas as they will simply vomit. This lie is up there with lads who “did some cow tipping in their day”. Stop spreading misinformation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/15TM4CDpDGHSq08nWHF3h89/seagull-urban-myths-fact-or-fiction
https://www.birdclinic.net/avian2.htm
I saw them die and I stopped the guy by reporting him. I didn’t lie.
I imagine it must be some other mechanism of action? I find it hard to believe that the CO2 in that bit of coke could cause its stomach to expand to the point of explosion, but it does seem likely that there are some other ingredients in soda that are very harmful to birds
It’s just mildly acidic sugar water. There’s not enough of anything is an entire can of coke to kill a bird. Unless this bread was soaked in a fast acting poison, this story is 100% bullshit.