It's not your fault!! :) you didn't know that would happen if you did you wouldn't have done it. :) So yeah: Those traps should be illegal. I understand why people kill rats, I eat meat, but I appreciate folks who do it as painlessly as they can. I love rats sooooo much, probably irrationally so because they helped me a lot through my parents divorce when I was a wee boy, they're very bonded animals, they accept you in as part of their life and show incredible amounts of affection towards you. On top of that, they're intelligent!

I mean, they were really messing up my house. They knocked over an entire shelf in my pantry, which I admittedly was kind of impressed by considering that shelf was full of stuff any not light. They were eating through plastic containers and eating/shitting in our food.

We had to replace all our food containers with very thick plastic containers or glass containers, and after the disaster with the glue traps we hired an exterminator who patched up all the holes they were getting in from and laid a lot of snap traps, which as far as I can tell, killed them immediately and thus they didn't suffer.

I'll admit that I don't really love the idea of killing mammals; but I do love my house staying together.