My daughter wasn't with us, so her reaction wasn't there to measure. My son treated it all quite matter-of-factly. With someone like me for a dad, the heads-full-of-mush Bambi-BS doesn't have much of a chance to sink in. In all fairness, though, I've found most kids his age are a bit more rational about such matters than the public schools system would like to admit. $:-)
It must have been great. What a “teaching moment.”
“Someday, son, we may have to wipe out a LOT of ‘rats.”