We have rats in our neighborhood. And there’s no trash anywhere to be found. Old country club neighborhood, lots of fruit trees means lots of food. The rats travel around via the fences and trees. And yes, I poison them. I have little plastic bowls nailed onto a top flat board of the fence that I fill with rat pellets. There are 4 of those bowls around our back yard fence. I hate f’in rats. Plenty of cats in the neighborhood but they don’t seem to bother the rats. We’ve been here 22 years and I’ve been fight the rats ever since we moved in.
We also have kit foxes, possums, raccoons, and tons of squirrels. There’s a golf course in the front of our house.
How many cats and dogs and other animals have been poisoned by those bowls?
Better to shoot the rats and let the other animals live long lives.