I keep parrots and there's a lot of mess so for a while we had a rat problem. What we would do is go flush out the holes with the water hose and armed with a paintball gun and about 4 small dogs, we'd do a rat hunt. They loved it and IMO finally earned their keep. lol. My youngest brother let my other brother shoot him in the back from about 15 feet away for $10 and now has several scars on his back that look like old bullet wounds or like he'd been burnt with a car's cigarette lighter. He said next time it'd be at least $100. I can't believe he'd consider doing it again.