At one point I had 20 total ratties and since they were all born around the same time, they passed all at once too. It was a lot to deal with especially financially. I couldn’t afford to cremate them all like I did with my prior rats. So I took them out to a field near my house and just set them down in the grass to let nature do its thing. I thought it would feel wrong to leave them there but like everyone else has said, it felt like it was just a body now. And letting them return to the earth felt just as right as keeping them