Most people who have a cat just take whatever variety of domestic shorthair that is granted them by the unofficial “cat distribution system”—a mythical means by which people who are thinking about ...

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 ...

Police in Niles, Illinois – a suburb of Chicago – expressed satisfaction with a pilot program begun in August to “deputize” five feral cats to control the rat population, a police official told ...

A rat the size of a cat was found inside a home in the United Kingdom, and local representatives say the animal is part of a growing problem in the area. David Taylor and Stephen Martin are ...