We have had a rat problem at work, pest control visited more often and our production manager put down some traps, under control now but we still have some due to the messy yard next door. More traps went down this evening with nutella as bait. At the very beginning I said chocolate was the best and I was proved right as they went for the chocolate baited traps.
I used to keep pet rats and loved them to bits but I do understand the damage and diseases from wild rats. Yes they are vermin but as I have pointed out, humans are messy and drop food, rats eat it and help to keep our streets clean, also more people die every year from diseases caught from other humans than from rats but no one else shares my view, they are vermin to be destroyed and that is that.