Yeah you must be the only one who cares for animals on this forum. You should be more careful in the dark if there are so many snails to be stepped on.
If you love animals so much, why do you keep any as pets? Also, how can you proclaim love for animals but seemingly not understand animal nature? Rats don't gas and freeze themselves in the wild and wait to be eaten. If anything, feeding live is more humane in my eyes. Send the rats to a gas chamber to die slowly and then be frozen? Do you have other pets like dogs or cats? Do you eat animal products or have kids that eat animal products? Or is it tofu and Popsicles for everyone? You don't love animals, you love TELLING people you love animals and trying to make them feel like how they handle their own animals is wrong because you have some moral "mission".