Multiple big cities, including New York City and Boston, began testing it in 2016 as an effective way to kill rats in their ...

So the extermination industry uses anticoagulants, or blood thinners, which don’t affect rats for hours and don’t kill them for several days. The rats die slowly from internal bleeding.

the rats started killing each other off,” he said. “They weren’t taken off by a predator, and they were showing signs of being in a fight, so we knew it wasn’t poison that killed them.

Pest controllers say some Brits are putting down poison to kill rats themselves - but this is dangerous to wildlife and pets, and if rats are entering a home through a sewer, they will keep coming ...

For centuries, government leaders and public health experts have been trying to get a handle on New York City's rat community, which continues to grow in size. But a new group is curious to ...

An animal welfare charity has criticised the sentence of a man who goaded a lurcher dog into killing a domestic rat. The Scottish SPCA said it is "devastated" Liam Fair has been allowed to retain a ...