Ugh, how I hate it when rats move in. We've had problems with them in our woodshed (And consequentially, our chicken coop nearby) for years, and discovered live traps work better than the type that looks like a very large mousetrap--they can sometimes escape from those.
Okay, I choose to believe this is true, based on what I've seen happens when neighbor-to-neighbor relationships go bad, the fact that TheSitcomGirls joined much earlier than she started the thread (By years, in fact), and based on the photographs (And similar photographs of her yard and chickens...
A hundred years form now, if the houses in your neighborhood are still liveable, somebody is going to wonder why there is a small forest between those two houses.