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Oh gosh. What should one do when there is a cockroach (2 even!) lying on their backs on one's kitchen floor, but when one gets close, one sees that they aren't dead yet? Still Feebly moving a leg or antenna... I don't want to put them in the trash while they are still alive, that would be disrespectful to them. I don't want to put them outside, as then the ants might move in on them, which could be torture. I guess I just leave them.

I've been using the small black plastic roach-bait things, because while I don't like killing bugs, neither do I want the house to be overrun with them. Finding roach droppings is icky.


On the other hand, maybe they don't like being in the kitchen with the light on.. the light shining down into their eyes. Maybe they would prefer it if I just gently picked them up with a paper towel and placed them in the paper bag of trash in the other room, where it is darker.