Niles police expressed satisfaction with a pilot program begun in August to “deputize” five feral cats to control the rat population, a police official told Pioneer Press. Now, the department says it ...

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Anticoagulant rodenticides used to kill rats and mice can move up the food chain when predators eat poisoned prey. Small wild ...

News 12 visited various bodegas in the Bronx and found that not every store had a cat - but all of the employees agreed that cats help keep the rats out. The Department of Sanitation says citywide rat ...

There are now an estimated 3 million rats in New York City — a 50 percent increase from a decade ago. The report, from a pest-control company, used rat-sighting data from 2022 and 2023, building off ...