rats are nasty.
Barn cats are worth their weight in gold.
Full rodentcide!
I support full rodentcide.
My husband is woefully unmotivated to take care of trapping vermin in his mancave barn where he works on old cars.
I give him my kill report from by the AC unit every day ( “got another mouse last night.”) but he lets his barn go to the mice.
Last week I finally dumped a bag of Tomcat bars in a big live trap in the barn ( to keep the dog away from the bars) , since he won’t set traps. We don’t take the dog in there anyway but wanted to be safe.
I told him he’ll have hundreds of mice if he doesn’t go after them like I do.
You have to be diligent and keep at it. I check every day, get rid of the dead and re-bait.
At our old house ( moved in August) I had mouse traps set all year in our garage. This garage seems OK so far.