New York rats are big and bad. They sit calmly on the subway tracks, ignoring discomfited commuters on the platform. They stroll through Central Park as if they owned the place. They pretty much rule ...

Some Coney Island residents say they’re fed up with rats running around their neighborhood and even keeping cats away from West 32nd Street between Surf Avenue and the Coney Island boardwalk. “The ...

STRATHAM — The New Hampshire SPCA is urging people to adopt or donate as it faces a surge of 217 animals in care. The shelter took in 36 cats, 30 finches and 30 rats in three separate incidents in the ...

They would be the Big Apple’s cat crusaders. Mayoral hopeful Curtis Sliwa is pitching a plan to solve New York City’s rat problem — unleashing a strike team of feral cats to hunt down the rodents at ...

A Metro Detroit city is tackling two problems at once with a program aimed at helping reduce the feral cat population and keep rats away. Dearborn Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud said the city is working ...

I wasn’t expecting to read a headline about cat-sized rats while eating my lunch today – but here we are. According to news reports, a massive rat “the size of a cat” was discovered in a person’s home ...

In Chicago’s war on rats, it looks like feral cats either lack a certain killer instinct or they’re extremely picky eaters, according to a new study from Lincoln Park Zoo’s Urban Wildlife Institute.