I actually think it's kind of cute. At his last feed Ari took a fuzzy tail first and I couldn't help but think that his tiny baby bp mouth open with a cute little fuzzy mouse sticking out of it was almost too cute for words. I don't think I could feel that way about feeding live though. . .I know that the f/t mice I'm feeding Ari were killed quickly and humanely. They probably had better lives and deaths than the vast majority of animals killed for human consumption.