NYC Mayor Eric Adams is hosting a national rat summit, gathering leaders to discuss strategies for winning the war on rats.

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Editor’s note: This story contains descriptions and images of dogs hunting rats that could upset some readers. The sound of a rat screaming in the jaws of a terrier is the same sound that a ...

New York City kicked off the very first Urban Rat Summit on Wednesday with Mayor Eric Adams declaring "War on Rats" while giving opening remarks for the event. The two-day event is being held at ...

Third District Niagara County Legislator Christopher McKimmie has lived in Niagara Falls’ LaSalle neighborhood for more than a decade, but this year was the first time he had seen a rat in the area.

A Southern Indiana father was found guilty on three felony charges after his 6-month-old son “nearly died,” according to prosecutors, after suffering more than 50 untreated rat bites at the ...

Simply place a few slices of raw onion outside around your home to help "drive rats far from your property". Lavender is a lovely, fragrant, purple herb but it's not just the beauty of it that ...

Wells Scouts took another step on Sunday towards raising the £60,000 needed to refurbish their Scout Hut on the Blue School ...

Martinsville's Celeste Pitts finally found a car like the one she was given when she turned 16. And this car has a name: ...

He advised mixing a few cloves of garlic with water and then pouring it down a rat burrow. Although lavender smells lovely to humans, it smells awful to rats. Jordan said: "It can keep them from ...

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