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Rats in my backyard

Trelynda Kerr
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago

I started seeing rats in my backyard. I see holes around our vinyl fence in various places. At first I thought it was my two yorkies digging and had placed bricks in various places to prevent them from digging. Then one night before sunset, I actually saw two running by the fence. I don't leave food or water out. I don't have trash out. I pick up the dog poop. I don't have bird feeders. Finally I contacted a company to install hardware cloth all around the fence. They dug about a foot down and placed the hardware cloth behind the fence and bolted it and ran it at a 90 degree angle and then put cement on top of that and then covered with dirt. For about a week, I saw nothing. Now I have one new hole. I placed a brick over it and I had a new hole next to the brick! I am at a loss. Without using traps or poison, any ideas why they like our backyard?

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