Update on the Rats

I thought the rats were gone but was filling up the van with gas on Tuesday and heard them again!!! Went home and our neighbor, the fearless Jen, found a baby rat squeaking at her on our driveway while we were gone during the day. She picked it up, put it in a tuperware with papertowels, and tried to feed it milk. The baby didnt even have its eyes open yet. She put the tuperware under the truck, trying to let the mom come back and get it. When we realized they were in the van we put the baby on the driveway. It was moving around all day and making the cutest sounds!!! Even baby rats are cute!! We opened the van hood and found another nest. We opened the Maxima hood and found the hood scratched up but no nest. At this point I was really tired of dealing with them. A guy in our ward, who also works with Nolan in the elders quorum, owns a pest control company called PestRite. Gave them a call. Mama rat never got her baby. Nolan dealt with the baby and I didnt want to know how. I told him to leave it out for the neighborhood cats. Mike came the next day. We never heard the rats again, but he laid out boxes with rat poison. Hopefully they are either gone already or they wont die in the engine where we cant find them but they smell really undescribably bad. Mike will check the food tomorow and we will see what is happening.