NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – Unleash the cats. Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa says cat colonies are the answer to New York City’s rat problem. On Sunday, Sliwa outlined his plan to continue the ...

(CBS Local)-- Oh rats, it turns out your cat just isn't that interested. Cats have long been thought of as the natural enemy of rats. However, a new study shows that while your prowling feline might ...

STRATHAM — The New Hampshire SPCA is urging people to adopt or donate as it faces a surge of 217 animals in care. The shelter took in 36 cats, 30 finches and 30 rats in three separate incidents in the ...

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 ...

An unlikely friendship blossomed between a cat and a rat after they moved in together. Adorable video from February 7 in ...

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 ...

Before you non-rat fans stop reading, here’s a gentle reminder that, contrary to the image of dirty street animals, ...

You have rats? Gross! I thought rats only lived in big cities,” my sister Mary said. We’d just seen a rat the size of a pony gallop across my kitchen floor. I did have a small horse ranch after all.

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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 ...