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@woodentulip: I wish I were. I only know this because I had a case once involving rats . . . and I learned far more than I ever would have liked about the critters.

I would go ahead and call an exterminator...we tried traps with mice in our last help and we caught a lot, but we never actually put an end to it until we called in a professional.

I had mice, not rats, and it was awful! While you wait for an exterminator, put ALL food into bg heavy duty plastic containers, like Rubbermaid or whatever, or glass if you can. They will eat anything- dry pasta, couscous? Sure. I don't know if this works for rats but supposedly nice hate the smell of bleach so I bleached like every surface in my kitchen. I pretty much wanted to disinfect everything anyway.

Hope the exterminator gets there soon! It's such a gross awful feeling knowing they are around!!