Rat Count

We had three or four nice weeks of no rat activity.  The bait must have done its job.  And then.....new rat activity.  I heard it under the cupboard.  And then I am sitting on the computer and I hear glass tinkle over by the sink.  I look up just in time to see something with a tail on the toaster.  It quickly maneuvered behind the dish strainer.
I got up and got my glasses and my phone and I took a video as I carefully removed things from in front of it.  It actually let me get a video before it scurried away behind the stove.  I sent the video to the exterminator.  He called and set an appointment to come out yesterday. 
Before he came I actually found some poop that I assumed was rat poop.  I showed him when he came and he said yeah that is from a big rat and it is old.  He checked the holes and said he saw fresh rat poop and it is small from juvenile rats.  And we discussed how my cats are very interested in these rats.  Well the big rat would have whooped their butts and they know it.  But juvenile rats are a little bigger than mice and they can be killed easier. 
He reset the bait trap, put some bait in the hole in the siding and set a trap in the kitchen.  Showed me how to work the trap and what to do if and when I caught a rat.  Dispose and reset.  We left right after he did.  We came back a couple of hours later and we had a dead rat in the trap.  So we disposed of it after the kids checked it out.  Reset the trap and put it back.  A couple of hours later we were watching television and we heard the trap trip.  Sure enough we had caught another one. 
Was hoping for the same result this morning, but the trap was clear.  Until this afternoon.  So far three rats in less than 24 hours.  So again we disposed and reset.  The kids seem curious.  I was worried about how the little woman was going to take killing the rats.  Her friend in girl scouts has pet rats.  The little woman seems to understand the difference between pets and vermin.  Thank goodness.