I'm glad that mine only eats f/t. I hate mice too, so very much, but I still think I would feel bad feeding it something alive. A friend of mine when I lived in Chicago for a bit had a rock python that at one time ate guinea pigs. He was out of town and asked me to feed it "which pretty much ment throwing the thing in it's room and shutting the door" but I could still hear it and I felt so bad. I know I'm a whimp lol