(It has been described as an unofficial rat zoo.) We were here to meet Kathy Corradi, New York’s first-ever rat czar—or in administrative parlance, the citywide director of rodent mitigation ...

A resident had reported a rat sighting. “I got PTSD immediately,” Lauren Divine, the director of the island’s Ecosystem Conservation Office, told The Washington Post. Rats are a nuisance in ...

Rats, infamous for their unwelcome presence in gardens where they breed and scavenge, can easily make the leap from your garden to the inside of your house. These vermin are masters of concealment ...

Ana Cojuhari lay wide awake in bed each night, unable to sleep because of the horrifying screeches of the rats scurrying behind the walls of her Ottawa home. "It was just insane. It's just ...

Researchers trained 11 rats to sniff out elephant tusk and rhino horn, even when smugglers used common tricks such as using coffee grinds and washing powder to conceal their scents. Scientists say ...

It's always a worry if you've spotted a mouse indoors or a rat in the backyard. And learning how to get rid of mice or how to get rid of rats can be a challenging and often expensive task at the ...

Torrington resident Samantha Wilson indicates a wall in front of the space beneath her porch is where she believes rats have been hiding. Below her hand is a small pumpkin that was eaten by rats.

Being stagnant is not one of them. The city has a habit of reinventing itself, going from its Mobbed-up Rat Pack era to one focused on building out megaresorts. Now the city has a shiny new ...

Halloween is right around the corner, but residents of a South Kanata community say they've been living in what feels like a horror movie for over a month. Sign up now for daily CTV News Ottawa ...

An animal charity who are looking after a domesticated rat found abandoned in a Keyham park fears a second pet may be desperately roaming parts of Plymouth. Periwinkle - nicknamed Perry - was ...

The hypothalamus integrates neurohormonal signaling from gut and adipose tissue. Specific hypothalamic nuclei, including the dorsomedial nucleus (DMN), paraventricular nucleus (PVN) and ...

Swimming in toilets, scurrying through backyards and even interfering with a local badminton game — rats are once again plaguing part of the city, this time on one street in Old Ottawa East. Like ...