yes thats hard, I breed my own mice and rats for my snakes, my 10 year old son keeps picking out ones that I am not suppose to feed because they are too cute. He even names them. I told him to stop playing with the snakes food but he just doesn't get it. I try not to feed them but eventually they gota go. Then when he goes to get them and they are missing he gets mad at me. I tell him that the snakes have to eat too, but he's 10 what are you going to do.