I'm always a bit disturbed when I hear about poisons.
Seems like the neighborhood foxes are likely to be endangered when they catch those sick rats... And the hawks...
Seems like that poison would just remove the predators from the wildlife garden, thus making the rodent problem worse....
Cats are indiscriminate killers, but keeping them inside in the daytime seems to protect the birds and lizards... And... they do a bang-up job on rodents...