Rat

I'll send over some of my wife's cooking , that will kill it 

Been  chasing  rattus  norvegicus { thanks  Rocky  2 B }  to  keep  him/her/them  away  from  my  garden  where  food  from  bird  feeders  is  the  attractant  .  Different  traps,  baits, poisons  still  in  use  --  block  baits  slowly  diminishing  even  now  so  The  Dread Beast ( or  the  family )  is  still  nibbling  away.

The  only  suggestion  I  have,  which  might  upset  your  pets,  is  something  like  a  bad  tempered  Jack  Russell  of  proven  pedigree 

We recently had a problem in the garden. These seem to work, at least the bait was eaten initially and now it's not. Plus we have not seen any since we started using it. Safe with pets, although of corse unlike a spring trap you can't control where the animal dies. Perhaps more of problem in the house.☹️

We've used something similar to this LINK a galvanised humane trap, it needs baiting with something that the rat will spend time with, a mix of jam or peanut butter maybe on a fixed plate.

We had rats in an outside store, it's fixing their route in that takes time to sort. Our rats got in up the pipes and guttering and ate their way through roof insulation! No problems now.

It’s coming in to eat something, so check that everything food wise is in air tight containers. They will just nibble through pasta, rice, flour etc....bags. Then try and identify how it gets in, not that easy! If you know any friendly farmers, then the Farm ratter might be your best option. 

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It does indeed DD. But first you have to corner the little blighter, that’s where the dogs come in. One of our Airedale’s was an ace ratter. Far too quick for us to intervene. Not sure about shotgun in kitchen though.....

. . . . . . . .  should  stop  those  others  with  itchy  fingers  pinching  from   that  fruit  salad  you're  making   

But  seriously  it  would  not  need to  have  steel shot ( lead  is  a  no-no  these  days ).  At  close  range  rice  { UNBOILED }  would  do  the  job  ok  but  omit  the  rock  salt --  just  use  that  in  the  rice  mix  for  poachers  .

a Jack Russell comes to mind..

And  I  did  mention  that  in  the  tag  end  of  my  earlier  post, nivag,  but  with  the  stipulation  that  it  was  a  bad  tempered  one  of  proven  pedigree