mice are just part of the food chain...for birds, snakes, even a large tarantula's eat mice...while i was in Hawaii...i was told to always wash the top of you beer or soda cans off because mice chew in the cardboard cases and urinate on the cans stored in wharehouses and it can make you sick! you think the mouse would would feel bad if it made your family ill? i have ground squirrels at my house and they dig my lawn up...so am always on the sniper attack with my pellet gun for ones near my home..i feel bad when i kill one but it lasts for about a minute until i smoke my victory bong! :jointsmile: