If the trap’s a-rockin’, don’t come a-knockin’. New York City’s fight against rats has entered the furry beasts’ bedrooms, with the City Council approving a measure to lace rat traps with rodent birth ...

A New York City lawmaker wants to avenge avian icon Flaco, who died with a dangerous amount of rodenticide in his system, by sterilizing rats. Councilmember Shaun Abreu introduced a bill on Thursday ...

Eric Adams is currently facing multiple federal counts of bribery and corruption, but the war on rats stops for no man. Last week, just as the mayor’s legal troubles came to a head, the City Council ...

CHICAGO -- The latest weapon in Chicago’s war against rats is plant-based, naturally flavored and nutritious. It’s a birth control pellet made with corn and peanuts, and a team of researchers and ...

In the city where pizza rats are as famous as pigeons, New York is trying a new tactic in its long war against rodents: birth control. Starting April 26, the city began distributing contraceptive ...

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While City of Boston officials are looking into the possible efficacy of using rat birth control to reduce rodent populations, the administration does not plan to roll out such a program citywide in ...

A neighborhood in Boston has been testing a pilot program that uses birth control for rats to decrease the city's pest population, 7News Boston reported. In Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood in southern ...

As the city of Boston ramps up its perpetual battle against rats, more attention has focused on unconventional strategies to eliminate rodents, including deploying rat contraceptives to suppress the ...

The city just opened its latest front on its war against its most hated rodents — lacing rat bait around the city with birth control. The program kick-started on city property in Harlem last week — ...

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