On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 00:11:04 -0800 (PST), Janet G
wrote:

Rather overrun with rats in the garden at the moment I've resorted to a couple of traditional snap rat-traps.

Our plot has a few (!) keeping chickens it is to be expected. We have
rehomed three feral cats, sisters found abanbanded, hoping they will
keep the rodant popultion down.

They are feral, so we have named them, Cheryl, Meryl, and Beryl :-)