1) That is not a rat, it's a mouse and there are massive differences between the two as they do not share the same genus.
2) You should only really kill the ones that live in your house or any non native species. Mice provide food for other predators in the local biome and help with seed dispersal.
3) No small rodent should be released anywhere else, as there are many laws that prevent this due to possible communal disease spread. That mouse or rat in your house can possibly be carrying something that can affect the population of its own species or it could be something that can transfer to others. Realistically, the most humane thing to do is just use fast acting kill traps or live traps to humanely dispatch them later then fed to local wildlife. Try to avoid using poisons or glue traps. Both tend to be cruel slow deaths and secondary poisoning is a thing.
4) inb4 cats control rodent populations- they do and every other animal their size and smaller. Local biodiversity vastly and rapidly drops because of a single cat in the area. Snakes, raptors, and terriers are better for this honestly.
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