Not sure if the vegetable oil would work; crawdad motivations can be somewhat difficult to comprehend, as Theo and Shorty explored in this old thread from 2006-

Originally Posted By: Theo Gallus
Why did the crawfish cross the road?

To prove to the possums and armadillos that it could be done.



Originally Posted By: Shorty
Why did the crawdad cross the road?


GEORGE W BUSH
We don't really care why the crawdad crossed the road. We just want to know if the crawdad is on our side of the road, or not. The crawdad is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

COLIN POWELL
Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the crawdad crossing the road.

HANS BLIX
We have reason to believe there is a crawdad, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

JOHN KERRY
Although I voted to let the crawdad cross the road, I am now against it!

RALPH NADER
The crawdad's habitat on the other side of the road had been polluted by unchecked industrial greed. The crawdad did not reach the unspoiled habitat on the other side of the road because it was crushed by the wheels of a gas-guzzling SUV.

PAT BUCHANAN
To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

JERRY FALWELL
Because the crawdad was gay! Isn't it obvious? Can't you people see the plain truth in front of your face? The crawdad was going to the other side. That's what they call it-the other side. Yes, my friends, that crawdad is gay. And, if you eat that crawdad , you will become gay too. I say we boycott all crawdads until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like the other side.


RUSH LIMBAUGH
I don't know why the crawdad crossed the road, but I'll bet it was getting a government grant to cross the road, and I'll bet that somebody out there is already forming a support group to help crawdads with crossing-the-road syndrome. Can you believe this?!? How much more of this can real Americans take? Crawdad crossing the road paid for by their tax dollars. And when I say tax dollars, I'm talking about your money, money the government took from you to build a road for crawdads to cross.

DR SEUSS
Did the crawdad cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the crawdad crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY
To die in the rain. Alone.


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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR
I envision a world where all crawdads will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.

GRANDPA
In my day, we didn't ask why the crawdad crossed the road. Somebody told us the crawdad crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS
Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the crawdad tell, for the first time, the heartwarming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road.

JOHN LENNON
Imagine all the crawdads in the world crossing roads together - in peace.

ARISTOTLE
It is the nature of crawdads to cross the road.

KARL MARX
It was an historic inevitability.

CAPTAIN KIRK
To boldly go where no crawdad has ever gone before.

BILL GATES
I have just witnessed eCrawdad2006, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet explorer is an integral part of eCrawdad.

ALBERT EINSTEIN
Did the crawdad really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the crawdad?

BILL CLINTON
I did not cross the road with THAT crawdad. What is your definition of cross?

AL GORE
I invented the crawdad!

THE BIBLE
And God came down from heaven, and he said unto the crawdad, "THOU SHALT CROSS THE ROAD." And the crawdad didst cross the road, and there was much rejoicing.



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