"The department shall perform monthly inspections of each pilot program area." Birth control for rats? New York City passes ...

I asked my husband to take a look at it, and he identified it immediately as rat poison.” The situation escalated when one of the family’s dogs was discovered chewing on another pellet near ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. (WKRC) - Officials have greenlit a plan to reduce their city's rat infestation using a "rat contraceptive." It should come as no surprise that New York City has a rat problem.

SOUTH GLENS FALLS – A South Glens Falls dog owner is warning others in the community after she discovered hundreds of rat poison pellets on her property. Kimberly Hoover found what she thought ...

“We can’t poison our way out of this, we cannot kill our way out of this,” Council member Shaun Abreu said while first introducing the bill in April. New York City’s rats will be dosed ...

These enticingly flavored bait blocks are placed outside of buildings, in small black boxes that only rats and mice can enter. But the poison remains in the rodents’ bodies, threatening larger ...

Assemblymember Laura Friedman of Glendale authored Assembly Bill 2552 to protect wildlife and build on an existing ban for certain rat poisons. An ag coalition successfully convinced Friedman to ...

Last year, there was an outcry when Flaco the Owl—who charmed New Yorkers after escaping captivity to live among Manhattan's skyscrapers—was found dead with rat poison in his system.

Putting out rat poison, as the city has done for decades, “doesn’t get us far,” Abreu said. “When two rats can reproduce 15,000 descendants in a year, you can’t kill your way out of this.

BOSTON (WHDH) - A pilot program has been testing out ways to curb the Boston rat population without using poison. People in one Jamaica Plain neighborhood have been feeding rats birth control as ...

(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) NEW YORK − Tourists snapped selfies and office workers guzzled coffees inside Manhattan's Bryant Park. But all around ...

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 ...