Can you keep a baby rat?

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We've found 2 baby rats. Don't think they're mice, tails too long. They look old enough to eat what adult rats would etc.

Can I keep them? I don't want to kill them. And I don't want them murdered if all it would've taken was for me to have them.

I has pet rats as a child, in England and from pets at home, but apparently they're domesticated and bred in India?

Thank you

I would imagine that as they’re vermin and it’s illegal to keep them the vet would be obliged to destroy them humanely.

This is not true.

It is illegal to release black rats, but the op is much more likely to have caught brown rats (as black rats as pretty rare) and it is legal to release them.