CHOCOLATE MOUSETRAP
July 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE
A UNIVERSITY of Warwick team trialling scented plastic mousetraps have found that mice are more readily lured to their doom with chocolate, than devices laced with the scent of vanilla or cheese. Now, Sorex, a Cheshire, England, pest control company, says it will be marketing a new mousetrap, made out of plastic and infused with chocolate essence, bringing a new meaning to the phrase "death by chocolate."
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A UNIVERSITY of Warwick team trialling scented plastic mousetraps have found that mice are more readily lured to their doom with chocolate, than devices laced with the scent of vanilla or cheese. Now, Sorex, a Cheshire, England, pest control company, says it will be marketing a new mousetrap, made out of plastic and infused with chocolate essence, bringing a new meaning to the phrase "death by chocolate."
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