We've long been told that cats can help tamp down rat populations—let's face it, who wouldn't want a Ninja force of cats to combat vermin? However, a new study from Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution ...

Cats are good at so many thing — napping, chasing laser pointer dots around the room, napping, eating, and napping, just to name a few — but apparently they’re really, really bad at catching rats. A ...

Rats are so common in the city, many New Yorkers fancy themselves as rat know-it-alls. “Well, they have the subway rats – I call them the Mutant Ninja Turtles - and they have the local neighborhood ...

A new strain of the hepatitis E virus that usually only infects rats is now sickening people in Hong Kong, with nearly a dozen human cases reported so far, according to news reports. But exactly how ...

First she saw the eyes, then the ears, then the tail. Jane Rohling had lived in Eagle for 20 years before she saw her first ...

In gangster movies, mob bosses worry that a “rat” will betray them. Now, criminal wildlife poachers might need to start fearing real rats. Scientists have trained giant African rats to sniff out rhino ...

(CNN) — The millions of Norway rats that live alongside New Yorkers are among the animals that can catch the virus that causes Covid-19, a new study says. However, reports of the virus spreading from ...

Vendors at Clementi 448 Market & Food Centre are paid up to S$50 per rodent they catch, depending on its size.

A Brooklyn dog has taken the city’s rat problem into her own paws. Luna, a 7-year-old, 31-pound Schnauzer-mix, has caught and killed more than 200 of the rodents since early 2023. “She is like the ...

SLUNG OVER Pen Keo’s shoulder is a big wicker basket containing wire-mesh traps, which he lays, one by one, on a rice field where rats are known to scamper. There are so many traps there already, it ...

In a first, the CDC recently reported an outbreak of a type of hantavirus called Seoul virus among pet rat owners. The first case was in a “patient who owned and operated an in-home rattery,” or ...