Yep!
 

Just like some humans. ☺️

Keep fruit trees off your property, and make sure any trees don't reach your roof. Rats will live in your attic easily. They splat through any crack about the size of a dime.
My dog had a friendship with stray rats. He would walk up to a few rats and they would sniff - Rat on its hind legs. Freaked the hell out of me.

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good hefty doses of peppermint oil, regularly sprayed, will deter any type of critter-they hate it. you will have to reapply after rain, & get the good kind, the REALLY strong undiluted formula. good luck!

Rat Problem
 

Go to the website domyown.com, buy Protecta rat bait stations, fill them with Fastrac All-Weather Blox, and you will safely kill all nearby rats. I have had TEN of these all around my pool cage for about 12 years and am very pleased with the results. I check/refill them every 3 months and each time there is far less evidence of any rat activity, so I assume I am killing many rats and have seen NO evidence of rats around my house for years. Not very costly, easy to check/refill, and clearly effective.

House cats that allowed out unleashed kill more song birds that rodents.

Yes, if it produces seed pods and you let them produce fruit, cut pods out before they produce fruits.

Yes, especially songbirds.

Only if allowed to produce seed pods fruits, no fruits 🍎, rats will move down street where food source is.

So I have read.
 

Rodents, rats, squirrels, etc will fight back. House cats don't know how to deal with them, usually. Feral cats hunt and kill for food. Once they have eaten will go rest and digest their meal. House cats just kill. Since they aren't hungry, they don't eat their kill. They leave the inactive prey and go off to kill again. Anything that moves is fair game.

What do you use to get rid of rats
 

We recently saw two rats in the same day in our garage. We called our lawn and pest company, Falcon. They came out and set box traps on each side of the garage door (outside). They charged $50 to set the traps, and quarterly we pay $10 for them to check and reset. Haven’t seen one since. Worth the piece of mind for us.

Ohiobuckeye
 

Merrymini, you forgot one thing. I’m assuming the other animals are our pets. Remember they’re suppose to be on a leash. If the other animals you talking about are wild animals, you won’t know because they’ll be long gone & die elsewhere. Then you won’t have to worry about them killing someone’s pet. Not trying to sound cruel, just trying to see if we want to kill rats or worry about a rat infestation!

Just be careful not to shoot a "rioting" fruit with an AR-15. :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Thanks for this idea.
I think if anyone even suspects you have a rodent problem, these rat bait stations
is the way to go.
I have palms and fruit trees so I'll be investing in some soon.

I wonder if Rural King would carry them it tractor supply??

Rats are not a problem in TV according to a YouTube duo that are newcomers.

We used to have a very serious rat problem here, but I found a solution. We trap them and I BBQ them in my smoker. Just like a short haired squirrel......:clap2:

WRONG. FACT CHECK
Domestic cats kill between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds and between 6.9 and 20.7 billion mammals (mostly mice, shrews, rabbits, squirrels, and voles) each year, according to a study published last year in Nature Communications.

So according to science songbird sandwiches are not the cats favorite delicacy. Lol. BUT…

The greatest threat to birds is LOSS OF HABITAT. Yes your little slice of paradise multiplied reduces places where birds can eat, have protection from the elements and raise their young. Cats and all predators do what nature intended, strengthen the animal/avian population by eliminating the weak.

Ironic fact from the land if the Mouse.

Disneyland Cats: The Feral Cats Who Live in the Park - Inside the Magic

Sooo???
 

So, we need to reverse the human reproduction explosion since we are responsible for loss of habitat?

"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot".

Maybe they are just waiting a year before they leave.

Had me some of that BBQ rodent just the other night when we went out for Chinese food. :mmmm:

I went to Tractor supply today across from Rural King and bought these.

Cabbage Palms may be the attraction.
 

During the 2 hour seminar that the County Extension put on for new homeowners we were told if you have cabbage palms then you automatically have a black rat population and they most likely will attract black rat snakes, and similar ones, which can be very helpful.