That is a story all by itself! I'm dying laughing over here. "Here snakey, snakey." It wasn't rats; it was the birds. We have all of those critters, even though we live in the city. I've seen a family of turkeys waiting at the bus stop like they have some place to go. The front door is urban; the back door is boondocks. We have three cats, and they handle all rodent issues (which are few.) I'm still laughing.