I had someone tell me how horrible it was that I feed mice and rats to my snakes. I had them look at it this way...

Mice and Rats can have babies every three weeks, and the average litter is lets say 10. If you figure that there are 52 weeks in a year, and the gestation is 3 weeks each female mouse could have roughly 17 litters per year, or 170 mice...and that's just one female mouse.

Well most snakes only have an average clutch of 6 eggs once a year and those snakes will eat one mouse or rat every week...so I think the rodents are doing okay.

She says to me, well if you put it that way! LOL