New technologies to electrocute rats and render them infertile have had mixed results. City says food scraps remain a problem ...

Could rodent-killing dogs help make a dent in Boston’s flourishing rat population? Unique Pest Management, based in the Washington DC area, believes its pest-exterminating canines would be effective.

A new front in the war on rats has opened in the race for Brooklyn’s 56th Assembly district — with challenger Eon Huntley in favor of a no-kill, birth-control approach to curbing the exploding rodent ...

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The eXuby rat traps capture and kill the heftiest rats (roof and Norway) instantly. With razor-sharp jaws and powerful springs, it comes down on prey with 40% more force than standard mousetraps. Put ...

Bangladesh has crowned a new national champion rat killer after his team eradicated more than 160,000 rodents in the past 12 months, officials said Thursday. Farmer Abdul Khaleq Mirbohor won 20,000 ...

The crusading animal activists of PETA are blaming the city’s rampant rat explosion on “disgusting human behavior” — insisting thinning the herd shouldn’t include rodents’ “gruesome, painful” deaths.

“The rats are going to hate this,” City Councilor Gabriela Coletta quipped on Wednesday about a proposal to create a Boston office dedicated to their extermination. Coletta made her remarks at a City ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — If you don’t like rats, you might have more in common with invasive Burmese pythons than you think. A new study by the University of Florida shows that pythons in the ...