From poison to redesigned trash cans, New York City has tried everything to prevent rats from overrunning its streets—except accepting them.

Identifying what type of rodent has taken up residence in your home or yard is the first step towards evicting these ...

Most of the Tri-Cities calls are for roof rats, although there also are some calls about Norway rats, Miller said. Roof rats, which have tails longer than their heads and bodies, tend to be ...

Rats are notorious for chewing through wood or burrowing under concrete to find food and shelter inside homes, often nesting in gardens first. However, while many experts recommend chemical ...

One theory was that adopting an albino rat would scare off the other wild rats - who would think the albino is a ghost. Despite their infamy, rats have sometimes kept Parisians alive and offered a ...

A film maker who created a short movie about rats has said he thinks the animals get "a bit of a bad rap". Luke Cowdell, a media lecturer at Dudley College, has created the short film about the ...

“Norway rats” — also known as “brown rats ... But these are domesticated animals, not feral or wild creatures that call the city home. Adrian Benepe, president of the Brooklyn Botanic ...

Like other waterfront cities, Baltimore is prone to rat infestation. The Norway rat, more commonly known as the brown rat, is the most prevalent in the city, feasting on garbage including animal ...

"Everyone that knows me knows one thing: I hate rats," he said at a press conference in October 2022. Getting rid of rats has been somewhat of an obsession for Adams, with the city’s first ever ...