I just always wonder about the folks that think the mouse is so "cute and defenseless". Would they be the same people screaming to the rooftops if that same mouse was running across their kitchen countertops, defecating and urinating in their breakfast cereal? Would they honor it's life due to it's extreme "cuteness factor" or would they run to call an exterminator or set a trap?

I think part of what upsets some people about live feeding is that they themselves are completely disconnected with the act of feeding even themselves. Pork chops don't just magically show up nicely wrapped in plastic down at the Kroger store. They used to be a cute piglet, then later they went through a meat processing/slaughterhouse process but that's a distasteful thought to some. I know kids that are friends of my 6 year old that their parents won't tell them that pork chops used to be a living pig! How absolutely crazy is that!

I do think there are a number of YouTube video's though that don't do our community any good. They show idiots acting like idiots...they just happen to own snakes (really too bad for those snakes). Those sorts of video's tend to portray people that own snakes as mean spirited, uncaring, "look at my cool freaky pet!" sorts and that gives a less than complete image of most of the snake owners out there.