Get some of that tomcat poison maybe and traps they eat get poisoned and stay in the trap for disposal. Depending on the damage they may be able to recover. I'd deal with the rodent issue and then sanitize everything and start over if it was me.
If they have stripped the outer bark all the way around the stalk it wont make it.put some simple traps around an be done.
Rats are a city problem,mice are very common in the country and easy to deal with.
Rats, mice, they all freak me out. I can't stand the things. Some people don't like snakes, some don't like spiders, I don't like rodents. They make me sick
I couldn't sleep knowing they were crawling around. I'd have those plants down lickety split and get those things dead. But that's just me. 
Rats are every where says a man with a extermination co LOL Only place you find rats in maine is the local dump or the city pretty much the same thing LOLwhe I say rat i mean 6in plus the rest are just field mice.
Baby snakes
They're little field mice but I agree with you it fucking disgusts me too. They were coming in through my attic door so I have that sealed off now and bought a few bags of the dcon poison blocks. They are getting in from basement but must be going through the walls to the attic for water since they cant find any. I they were rats I'd have bear traps in my rooms lol
You have to put poison in the water.
I guess when they feed on the blocks it causes their blood to not clot and they just die from bleeding internally. it's not a water activated one
My dad used that one, it’s pretty good. He used it for squirrels in his attic. They had to leave to find water and then they “expire”
