Poison is effective ((and I concede necessary) but if other wildlife eats the corpses, I imagine they'll die too. I loved reading about other people's cats. It must be a big worry to have rabies endemic in one's country. We have no rabies here in UK, but I had a problem with deer ticks stuck to the cats. They stuck to me too and I had to have antibiotics to prevent Lyme disease (endemic to Norfolk and a few other areas of UK) I was very ashamed and sad when the Three Musketeers brought in a dead harvest mouse. They're not common and we treasure them here (Bright ginger with a white tummy) I also had many shrews, wood/field mice, moles, the odd pheasant (how they got that through the catflap I daren't imagine!) slow-worms and even a baby grass snake. Cats are real buggers for destroying wildlife and I hang my head in shame.