your kids are *******, crying for two hours??

That sounds like a traumatic experience, especially if they had just finished watching Ratatouille or something. I totally would have cried.

lol ydi, be lucky the mouse wasnt inside the house...and crying for 2hrs wtf

Its a mouse... my cat eats their heads off. Really who cares?

Did you at least shoot the hawk and serve it for dinner?

SO. I buy rats just to watch them get eaten. that is a privilage.

The circle of life. Don't raise your kids to be hippies, or this is what you get.

hahah 7 took what I was gonna write... "it's the ciiiiiiiircle of liiiiiiiiife..." show them the lion king and watch what happens when Mufasa is murdered.. bring tissues

This. Knowing that hawks eat mice is once thing. Actually seeing it happen is a lot different. I know that the hamburger I made last night was from a cow, but I sure as hell don't want to WATCH it being killed and ground up. I don't want to see the cow i'm eating. It'll make me sad. It's the same thing, in theory. Something is food for something else, but you don't want to see it. Especially when its something as cute as a mouse. :) And to whoever mentioned cats, how often do you WATCH your cat kill a mouse? You might clean up the innards, but that's the 'hamburger' case again. It's not a mouse anymore. It's just bits. If you cat leaves whole dead mice around for you that aren't mutilated, that's a lot sadder. Or it makes me sad, anyways, when i get to see how cute it was when it was alive. I can easily see how two little kids could be upset by this.

If people would expose their kids to real nature instead of letting them sit in front of tv all day, this wouldn't happen.