Thank you so much. It's an ongoing struggle. My dogs are great ratters, but I have them confined to the yard at this stage. I have made a few rat cage traps, and they work pretty well; you catch 10+ a night with that, but then by the second or third night, the buggers somehow figure it out, and they don't go near it.

I remember many years back my brother and I (a few glasses of wine in) decided to take the pellet guns and go into the room where the animal food is stored, we ended up in competition as to who would kill the most... it ended up being a really fun day. The final tally of dead rats were 180 something