They all got plenty to eat, after they moved in with me, but the mother continued to kill mice. I once estimated that she was averaging at least 5 mice a day, from the fields around the house. I never saw any evidence that she was eating them.
She was just keeping in practice, in case you ever kicked her out.
49 posted on 10/23/2006 2:39:29 PM PDT by Erasmus
(I invited Benoit Mandelbrot to the Shoreline Grill, but he never got there.)