My friend had her 5 year old over on feeding day, he saw the 4 mice in the feeder tank and went on and on about how cute they were, I didn't know what to do so I told her that I'd wait until they left b4 I fed the snakes ( I didn't want to traumatize the little guy) His mother explained to him why I had the mice and that they were not pets, they were to be fed to the snakes, the next words out of his mouth in true little boy fashion was "cool! can you feed them now so I can watch?" He really got a kick out of it, now he plans on coming over for every feeding, it's enjoyable to see my snakes take down a live mouse, especially the young one :)