I like the cat idea. We live on a couple of forested acres, next to an 80 acre forested greenspace.
My neighbor has one cat.
I've seen rodents crawl off trucks I dragged home, but only twice in ten years have I seen one in the house, and there is no evidence any of those who caught a ride here have survived to reproduce.
On second thought, ask your neighbor to get a cat. I never feed the thing or worry about a litter box, but the rodent control still covers my place just fine.
