i saw my family kill a rat today. this rat had been bothering them for a bit now, skittering around the kitchen at night. they put some poison around the place in hopes of it eating it. it did. it ate every single piece of the poison.
i found it when i went to drink some water. it was half-hidden under some furniture. i think it saw me, but it was too ill to move. i saw it twitch a bit.
i told my family to wait for the poison to end the deed, and i'd take it out, and then i went back to my room. they did not listen.
a few minutes later i hear a commotion. they were trying to move it out of the house before it died, so it kept trying to escape. it ended with the rat getting smashed in the face with a broom until it did that "death twitch", some of his blood staining the floor.
no idea why, but that made me very upset. it was about to die anyway, and it couldn't even have a somewhat peaceful end because my family couldn't be a little patient. i know it's a rat, but that wasn't an insect. killing a being that bleeds red that way just felt horrific.
not repgen related, but i dont have anywhere else to put this.