I once lived in an apartment above an Asian restaurant.
I’d sit on the flat roof outside my place and watch the rats come and go.
Somedays, they seemed to come but never went.
That was in the early 80’s and I haven’t eaten Asian food since.
In 83/4 Santa Anna CA, the Vietnamese restaurants were nailed after many locals reported their anklebiters missing. No joke. No prosecution either...on cultural grounds if memory serves.
They had to fatten the cats up on something....