Outdoor cat?
The skunk I befriended handles most of the rodents. It comes for mealworms when the chickens free range so I have to set it out its own bowl every night. As long as i do that it behaves and leaves the girls alone. It does a good job keeping the yard clean and wiping out grubs too. For the first time there was very few japanese beetles here last year.
Not sure if someone locally is having a fire or if the Canadian smoke has made its way here, but I can smell smoke draining in through the windows. Looked like it was creeping in here in the final vis shots of the evening.