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I agree, absolutely. However, we're not talking about mice in a cage at the pet store. We're talking about wild rodents invading your home. That is not an innocent creature by any means. They don't want to share your living space, they want to inhabit it. They don't share your compassion when they chew holes in the infrastructure of your home, allowing more vermin, bugs, etc. into it. They also carry diseases. You don't want a bunch of rodents, diseased or otherwise, inhabiting your home. Seriously. Also, when you have an animal, you will also see their natural predators. So now that rodents have set up shop in your home, the holes they've created for themselves serve as a doorway for snakes, who prey on them. Now you've got rodents and snakes. I'm not going for hyperbole here, that's what happens.

I don't disagree with you, I think it's a good idea to take the time to do that, though unless you release them into the middle of a big wooded area, you may just be moving the rodent near to someone else's house.

Totally, sharing viewpoints is what it's all about. And you never know, you may just push someone on the edge into feeling a little more empowered to do "their part".

I think that, for many people, it's not a matter of having disrespect for animals, so much as it's a personal feeling of balance that doesn't happen to favor the animal. Rodents cannot be in my home. I cannot drive out to uninhabited territories to safely dump every rodent that infiltrates my home. Many people live in areas where there's no such thing as "away from inhabited areas" anywhere near them at all.

That's a pretty tall order of a generalization. I won't bother pointing out in what ways and to what extent it's a totally unreasonable thing to say, that would not serve to enrich the discussion at all.

I will only say this: the safety and health of my family is more important than a rodent. No rodent's life is worth more than the health and safety of a human.