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Years ago we also had a prob with rats at feeders, which turned into a protracted war and house/wall invasion. (We became aware of the scale of the problem when our cat, who had not been outside, trotted proudly into the living room with a rat in her jaws. ... I had one tiny victory when I knocked one off the hardest-to-reach feeder with a frustration-chucked slipper.)

I've been afraid to put out seed since, especially as we see occasional signs of rats and we have a loose rock wall they probably bunker in.

-jeff b, Bellingham