Marinefam2053
Songster
Try to avoid using moth balls. They are so bad for the ecosystem. If they get into any kind of runoff water/retention pond, it will kill everything in that pond. I don’t have any solution for you. We have found in our shed a rat and her newborn babies nestled within some decorations. All of them we killed and disposed of. I’m sure that there is still one hanging around, but all of the food etc is in metal bins with the kids secured.I don’t have pictures right now. I could take some later (it’s roughly 108 degrees here today!!!) we haven’t placed the wire down very far. But the rats are digging tunnels and the piles of dirt they are pushing up is about a foot or more deep in places!!! And they are tunneling from all the way across the back yard (several hundred feet). I’ve tried everything from putting ammonia into the tunnels, moth balls, gopher gassers. You name it I’ve tried it. The last 2 weeks I’m completely worn out. I find more holes where they tunnel out or in. And they tear up my fencing. We have an old dog out back but he’s completely blind and bless his poor old heart, he tries to find them when he can. Every day I’m coming in from outside in tears because I don’t know what to do. I even told my husband we need to sit out there as still as possible and pick them off one at a time with a firearm.