Most people do not realize how fragile our environment is. If its in my shop or house it gets squashed. All out war on carpenter ants in the field. Everything else lives.
Sept skeeters and the occasional deer fly I manage to outsmart. Been seeing a chipmunk lately. Been a while since I've seen one of them. Neighbor quite with the cats.
Wife says "oh its so cute we should make a pet out of it" I say it's a rat. Leave it alone.