I love how people think snakes are evil because they eat rodents, but personally I think they are the better of a lot of animals. Snakes eat their prey whole, they don't leave anything behind like some animals do. I've never heard of a snake eating its prey alive, like some big cats will do. And unlike house cats, an extremely common well accept pet, they don't play with their food. If I was a mouse and had to choose between death by cat and death by snake, I would choose snake every time.