Dream

I had a dream that rats had infested our house. We went on some vacation and when we came back our house was tapped off with yellow caution tape. We went inside and we weren't sure what was wrong with our house. But then we saw Copper (our dog) chasing a rat that was about a foot long and had dark brown fur. The mouse holes where under our kitchen sink and stove. When we captured the rats we would pick them up by their tails and throw them out the window to our garden but they always somehow seemed to get back inside.

What rats in dream mean:
"To see rats in your dream symbolizes the presence of extremely disagreeable or distasteful thoughts.
Alternatively, it signifies feelings of uncertainty, guilt, envy or some other repressed emotions that is eating at you. It may also stand for someone who personifize the characteristics of a “rat”."
From dreamforth.com