Large rat populations can have a damaging effect on cities. Researchers found that living with rats " impacts people and ...

It gives cities a better picture of the uphill task that they face,” said Jonathan Richardson, an urban ecologist at the University of Richmond who led the work published in ...

Shelter staff received a call Wednesday morning from a woman wanting to surrender her pets, but upon entering her home, they discovered more than anticipated. Hundreds of mice and hamsters now occupy ...

Red Dog Farm Animal Rescue Network has taken in 12 of the 68 available rats, but that still leaves plenty to go around. If ...

The practically brand new county animal shelter in Guilford County does indeed have rats; however, they are the nice, ...

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A Sacramento animal shelter is lending a hand to pets left homeless by wildfires that have killed at least 27 people and destroyed more than 12,000 structures in Los Angeles County. Sacramento SPCA ...

Sumner Newscow report — The Wellington Humane Society Pet of the Week is Cujo!

The district attorney’s office in Harris County, Texas, has alerted attorneys involved in thousands of drug-related cases that rats were found eating the narcotics seized and stored by Houston police ...

Rats are consuming drugs that were seized and stored by Houston police and hundreds of cases could be vulnerable to the rodent infestation, officials said. It's an issue that has prompted the ...

“We got 400,000 pounds of marijuana in storage,” Houston Mayor John Whitmire told NBC. “The rats are the only ones enjoying it.” The mayor and law enforcement officials have now decided to ...

Police Chief Noè Diaz announced in a press conference that in October the HPD noticed the rats were consuming old marijuana in the evidence property room. "400,000 pounds of marijuana and storage ...