One victim fell ill after drinking a bottle of water she left in her vehicle while parked at a Costco, officials said.

How rat birth control works "We know these pellets are going to be attractive to rats because they're sweet. There's a compound in it called triptolide that targets ovarian function in female rats ...

In the first half of 2024, the Rat Rubout team’s calls have increased 25% over the same period in 2023, city officials told the Baltimore City Council during a recent meeting.The city is also ...

This rat poison, in powder form, mixed and circulated in the closed, air-conditioned room during the night while the family slept. The four of them slept through the night unwittingly inhaling poison.

Dog died slow death after eating rat poison ... the heart-sinking feeling that October day two years ago when she looked out onto her back yard and then saw a blue powder ...

Anticoagulant rat poisons, known as SGARs, not only avoid addressing the root cause of rodent infestations, they’re also toxic to nature’s best rat predators, animal advocates say.

Marlborough is just the latest Massachusetts community that has banned rat poison. At least 33 others have them, either through their local governing boards or home rule petitions, including ...

Scientists at Deakin University previously found rat poison was to blame for killing powerful owls. In 2022, in a study looking at the prey of powerful owls, the team dissected 160 possums.

When rats and mice consume poison, they don’t die right on the spot, she said. They carry on looking for food and water, and sometimes are eaten by predators like bald eagles, coyotes and foxes.

To the well-known list of rat poisons, such as arsenic trioxide, red squill and zinc phosphide, the last years of the War added another, a-naphtha-thiourea. Dr. C. P. Richter, of Baltimore, was ...

PETA pushed the city and its self-described ‘bloodthirsty’ rat czar to prioritize effective control methods like trash mitigation and birth control over cruel, lethal methods such as poison ...

But better regulation and tracking of rat poison use is likely to be needed in many places around the world. Meghan P. Keating is a PhD Candidate in wildlife and fisheries biology at Clemson ...