How to Play With Mice Like Alice Cooper

Shock rocker, Alice Cooper ruled the 70s with his infamously dark and theatrical stage antics. With performance highlights that included things such as boa constrictors, replicated baby murders and hangings, Alice Cooper's adventures with mice are pretty tame in comparison. You too can "play" with mice like Alice Cooper--just remember that he doesn't always play "nice."

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Choose white mice. Alice likes to play with mice that are pure white in color. He doesn't choose white mice specifically for any strange superstitious or racial reasons, but rather for the preferences of his pet snakes.

2. Feed them to your pet snake. Sure, some people might not consider "playing" with mice to be the same thing as "feeding" them to another animal. However, Alice needs to ensure that the boa constrictors he shares the stage with always perform on a full stomach; and his first snake, Kachina, would only eat white mice--never brown or gray. Tragically, Kachina perished in the toilet of a Tennessee hotel room in 1972.

3. Ensure there are no heating pads in the vicinity. When Alice's assistant fed a mouse to one of his albino Burmese pythons before a show, the snake somehow caught the corner of a nearby heating pad in his mouth at the same time, and proceeded to swallow both the mouse and the heating pad. The snake has since recovered from surgery and is retired at an animal rescue facility in Connecticut.

4. Give your mouse some space. Judging from the lyrics of his song, "Is Anybody Home?" we can only assume that Alice likes to give his mice lots of space when he sings, "Just me and my mouse/I live in a big dark house/and nobody's home, just me and my mouse."