I wasn’t sure if the right thing to do was let it die naturally or step on its head. The decision was complicated by the people eating dinner at Swingers’ outside tables. Photographing a (what I initially thought was dead) rat is creepy enough. Photographing it, then killing it would make me a snuff Marty Stouffer. I let it die naturally.
Were the same rat in my apartment and healthy, I would not hesitate to kill it.