It's spring TV ratings sweeps, so one of the local TV stations consumer action reporters did a story (hardly original, judging by Google search hits) on the horrors of rats and other rodents feasting ...
Have not experienced the problem.........yet. We live in an apartment now, woods on two sides, no garage, and truck wouldn't fit anyway. Legions of squirrels, which concerns me more, but the action videos of the under hood rats at work in the report was amazing. Got a cat but she's an indoor kitty.