Poor Little Chicky Baby

I've had to close the Back Porch Cafe due to an unwanted visitor.  Ratty McRat has decided to make the barn cellar his winter home for himself and some of his closest friends.  (extra) The "Rat Man" has come twice to set bait traps and motion sensors.  Rats are notoriously difficult to get rid of so this will be a multi-week even months operation.  I feel so badly for the birds and Gaylord, but I have to do this.  In the nearly 29 years I've lived here I've never had a "rat issue".   I hope they can be dispensed with quickly.