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inventors did come up with new rat traps some better than others. Wesley Wheeler, an exterminator with Bug Lord Pest Control, tells us that he “prefer[s] traditional snap traps as they’re the cheapest ...

Multiple big cities, including New York City and Boston, began testing it in 2016 as an effective way to kill rats in their ...

So the extermination industry uses anticoagulants, or blood thinners, which don’t affect rats for hours and don’t kill them for several days. The rats die slowly from internal bleeding.

To control them, people often resort to poisons. But chemicals that kill rats can also harm other animals. The most commonly used poisons are called anticoagulant rodenticides. They work by ...

Renters and owners can contact the city for assistance with rat burrows. The department uses poison to kill rats in their burrows, Gallup said. But it treats only rat burrows that are at least 10 ...

Rats can’t vomit. This may be a function of their anatomy—their stomachs are “not well structured for moving contents towards the esophagus” is how one study delicately put it—or it may ...