Just be glad not to have an idiot neighbor who feeds RATS:
http://www.laweekly.com/news/palisades-rathouse-case-settled-out-of-court-2157634
Yuck. Our neighborhood is old and we have large what everyone here calls tree rats. About 3 months ago they got in our attic. They were raising holy heck up there and waking me up at night. Took 2 months for our pest guy to poison them all. We still have poison boxes stationed around our property. We had every tree cut away from the house and every little place on the roof where they may have got in plugged up. It was a real ordeal and cost us some money.
We did have an idiot neighbor who fed pigeons, or “rats with wings”.