Members of a Long Island family say they feel like they are living next door to a zoo -- and that it smells like one, too.

Rats and mice can do a lot of damage in a barn, feed room or tack room. They eat feed and contaminate it, chew on tack, and carry disease. Ways to keep them out include steel wool pushed into ...

In Chino Hills, just beyond the Community Center and the Trader Joe’s, Tina Bevan at Silver Rose Ranch tends to her rat condo. All in a day’s work. “I think sometimes the rats try to taunt the dogs,” ...

Though they're not inherently dirty animals, rats scavenge in sewers and bins and can pass on serious diseases to humans. Leptospirosis (Weil's disease) is transmitted through their urine, and ...

Barn Hunt complicates the search with two decoy pipes — one with rat litter and one that is empty in an attempt to dupe the dogs. Success depends in part on a dog’s inquisitive nature, Lizzy Glandt of ...