Take your cats in

[redcolumbine.livejournal.com]

There's been a population explosion of rats around Davis Square, and if your landlord is anything like mine, they'll ignore your pleas to hire a professional exterminator and just start throwing poison around. You don't want your cat eating a poisoned rat.

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[alphacygni]

Construction projects are also obligated to do "pest control", and they all do it with those poison traps. And if your part of Davis is anything like mine you've probably got two or three major construction projects on your block. Last summer I kept finding untouched dead mice all over the backyard. My cats, thankfully, have no desire to go outside, so I don't even have to disappoint them. Because I absolutely would keep them inside, for that and other reasons.

[redcolumbine.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. I'm in Bob Trane's ward (sayonara, Condo Bob) and we've got - guess what - more luxury condos going up.

The upstairs neighbor saw a redtail eat one of the rats today. Bye-bye, redtail. The landlord is shooting himself in the foot by trying to cut corners, because with no predators, they'll just come back tenfold in the spring. But he doesn't have to live here...

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

Ugh... and it's not likely that anything else works on construction sites. You can't "ratproof" a construction site, which is the most effective way to get rats out of a building.