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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[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.