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Originally Posted by IROC
I used to be this way until we got rats in our chicken coop/house. "Live and let live" progressed to rats traps and poison really quickly.
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Yup. We have all kinds of smallish wildlife in our yard on a regular basis. Biggest are coyotes, followed by raccoons, rabbits, squirrels, and a myriad of birds right up to and including Bald Eagles. I leave them all alone, because they leave me, and my property, alone.
Rats destroy things. At their worst, they will get into the walls of your house or outbuildings and start chewing wiring. We all know where that leads. So, well, I kill rats. Everything else is left alone. Plus, everything else is kind of fun to have around, and they don't make my wife scream when she sees them.