When I lived in sydney we had a rat problem...and they werent normal rats... they were big ****off bush rats!! and no matter what we did they just bread and there was more of them. They ate THROUGH a plastic tub (about 1cm thick) to get at the rabbit food....which they half ate and left, so I put rat poision in it....didn't kill them...
when they started eating my books on my book shelf I had had enough...
Contact your local council. If rats are prevalent in your area, they may have a program where a council person comes out and puts traps or baits or whatever in the roof for you, because they understand how difficult this is for many homeowners. Otherwise if you're renting get the landlord's help with it.
We had birds in our ceiling - sounds the same as rats I imagine, scrabbing feet running across the ceiling. Except birds tweet ...
So our poor cat is down below going crazy trying to get them, climbing on top of the cupboard and yowling, which isn't helpful when you've got scrabbling birds AND a yowling cat at 5am.
We got out the 5m ladder (high ceilings) and stuck it in the manhole and shoved the cat up there. Cat had the best time of her entire life and only came down when she needed a drink.
The result? Henceforth, the cat would go to extreme lengths to get in the roof, including climbing up the ladder every time we left it leaning in the corner. The cat drove us mad doing that far longer than the wildlife in the roof did.
That link goes to a photo of our cat jumping into the roof. The scale is hard to see - the scaffold is 6' high, there's another 6' above the scaffold to the ceiling. The light shining through there is the cornice missing and is not a large gap, so basically the cat jumped 6 feet vertically into a 3 inch wide hole.
That extremely dirty cornice-installer is my other half, when we were building the baby (now a toddler) a new room
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