“The humane thing to do is not use an exterminator and save these little animals that are happy and want to live,” animal ...

"Two rats in a given year can reproduce 15,000 descendants," New York City Councilmember Shaun Abreu said. "We have to go at the source." As chair of the sanitation committee, he led the successful ...

Animal rescue volunteers are urgently seeking new homes for hundreds of pet rats discovered running wild in a condemned, ...

New York City is known for its towering skyscrapers and bustling streets, but lurking beneath the glitz and glamour of the city that never sleeps are 3 million resilient rats that have cemented their ...

Welp, it's another day in the good ol' US of A. Patrik Giardino / Getty Images In NYC's latest attempts to shrink its rat population (if you recall, last year, the city appointed a "rat czar"), the ...

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