Thank you so much. It's an ongoing struggle. My dogs are great ratters, but I have them confined to the yard at this stage. I have made a few rat cage traps, and they work pretty well; you catch 10+ a night with that, but then by the second or third night, the buggers somehow figure it out, and they don't go near it.
I remember many years back my brother and I (a few glasses of wine in) decided to take the pellet guns and go into the room where the animal food is stored, we ended up in competition as to who would kill the most... it ended up being a really fun day. The final tally of dead rats were 180 something
LOL
That reminds of of when I lived in Portland and the proles at the local chip factory went on strike for a month. Rats the size of Rottweilers came streaming into the city when the flow of potato peels dried up, and I had a juicy compost heap in the back yard. I had a little tree just outside the kitchen window where I hung a steel bucket for kitchen slop. I noticed the tree wiggled seductively when the fat bastards climbed up to get in the bucket and live the good life, so I parked myself in the kitchen with a 10-22 and a 6 pack and picked them off when they skylined over the rim of the bucket.
After a couple days of these amusements, I was out in the yard tossing the previous nights kills into the compost heap, when I noticed the wood fence between me and my neighbor had holes clear through it. I didn't think shorts would get clear to his siding, but upon inspection realized they had.
Everything fun is illegal.
ha, well, at least you didn't take the neighbor out in the process. But yes, that sounds about like something I would do :D
We only used the pellet guns because the bullets are much cheaper than the .22