Cranston considers rat birth control and possums as possible strategies, while Providence is starting to use a liquid form of ...

rats), people are more shocked that rats seemingly have better access to birth control than women do in the United States.

But they said they will not be introducing rat birth control anytime soon, given that a pilot program did not show a downward trend in residents' complaints. Under that pilot program, residents in ...

Rat birth control won’t be coming to Boston any time soon after a pilot program in Jamaica Plain didn’t necessarily prove effective, city officials told the Boston City Council this week.

A PEST control expert has issued advice how to keep rats at bay as the rodents look for food and heat during with cooler ...

with the City Council approving a measure to lace rat traps with rodent birth control. The bill, which passed Thursday, green-lighted a program that will put a contraceptive pellet called ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – U.S. cities like New York and Boston are introducing birth control to help with their rat problems. But will Portland follow suit? When used, the birth control — in liq ...

Throughout the pilot, the city’s health department will sterilize male and female rats by bringing salty birth control pellets to at least two neighborhoods in West Harlem. The contraceptive plan ...

Baltimore’s Rat Rubout team takes 235,000 calls a year, seeking to exterminate the vermin population plaguing neighborhoods.

Porter, a Democrat who represents South Baltimore communities including Cherry Hill and Curtis Bay, questioned whether city officials have considered using rat birth control to reduce the population.

the city appointed a "rat czar"), the city passed a bill that will pilot the use of birth control on rats. The bill, named "Flaco's Law" after the viral Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped the Central ...