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NYC Mayor Eric Adams announces Urban Rat Summit to combat rodent crisis

In a continuing effort to contain New York City’s rat problem, Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday announced the first National Urban Rat Summit. The summit, to be held on September 18th and 19th, will bring together the best of the rodent industry from Boston, New Orleans and Seattle to help alleviate the Big Apple’s burgeoning […]

Rare species of rodent captured on West Virginia trail camera

An elusive rodent considered a “sensitive species” was discovered on a West Virginia trail in the Allegheny Mountains. Officials with the Monongahela National Forest, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service, posted a video to Facebook last week showing the tiny creature moving around in the dark. Trail cameras captured a 17-inch […]

‘The rats are eating our marijuana; they’re all high’: Infested New Orleans police evidence room becoming rodent cafeteria

New Orleans Police Superintendent Ann Kirkpatrick spoke in harsh terms about the infestation problem plaguing her department, especially in the evidence room, which has become something of a smorgasbord for rodents. “Rats are eating our marijuana,” Kirkpatrick said Monday at a City Council Criminal Justice Committee meeting. NOLA.com reported. “Everyone is expensive.” In addition to […]

Lieu and Schiff seek to ban rodent glue traps

California Democratic Representatives Ted Lieu and Adam Schiff are pushing a bill that would ban the sale and use of glue traps to capture rodents. “Glue traps are cruel and inhumane and can pose a health risk to humans and pets,” Liu said, according to the Information newspaper. press release. “There are many other ways […]