The disease carrying rats as well as other rodents thank you profusely for your kindness to their species. They promise to make sure you get sick last from their diseases.
Ignorance is one thing, pride in ignorance is a completely different issue. Sad truthfully.
Non poisonous snakes do just as good a job on rats and you don’t have to worry about getting bit.
Got 2 chicken snakes and a king snake around the house got the mice & rat control contract.
I don’t care to step on a copperhead when I walk out of the house and I don’t care to waste my time moving it to another location on my property because I might step on him there too, so I kill him and solve that problem.