[ramonesfreak]

As for guns and predators…..I live on a small city lot. I have guns including pellet gun, no way I can use those here. No way to bring a predator here. And, all the yards are fenced so, although we have coyotes and fox roaming around, the do not come into the backyard. And this is good because I have 2 small dogs. The neighborhood cats do jump the fence and and kill chipmunks and birds but this is so random and I suspect there are so many rats in the neighborhood, that the cats can’t effectively reduce my rat population, especially since the rats are not lazy like chipmunks and they mostly stay indoors. Rats are comparatively slow however. If there is a cat here and it sees a rat, I’m sure it will catch it but it’s no solution. I’ll have to use a combination of some of the suggestions above