“I couldn't get it out of his mouth," owner Steve Badgery recalled when his English cocker spaniel William ate the tainted meat Escher Walcott is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE, covering stories in ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. (WKRC) - Officials have greenlit a plan to reduce their city's rat infestation using a "rat contraceptive." It should come as no surprise that New York City has a rat problem. A study ...

GLEN ELLYN, IL — Rats are undoubtedly a nuisance. During the pandemic, rat populations and infestations exploded in some areas. But killing them with poison has an unintended consequence on wildlife.

Massachusetts lawmakers want to restrict a type of rat poison that is particularly dangerous to birds, pets and wildlife. One hawk spent fourth months recovering from eating a poisoned rat at Weymouth ...

Dan Burton has trapped hundreds of wild pigs for clients of his wildlife control company in Salinas, but even he was startled when he cut one of them open and found blue meat inside. "I'm not talking ...

While many view Los Angeles as a concrete jungle, there's another side of the city more akin to the wild. L.A. lies within a biodiversity hot spot, with ecologically rich habitats such as the Santa ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – Lawmakers are sounding the alarm over a rat poison sold by street vendors in New York City. Push Out, a rodenticide, contains zinc phosphide – which becomes a toxic, potentially ...

A West Roxbury family is urging neighbors to think twice about using rodenticides after their beloved family dog nearly died from eating suspected rat poison. Described by his dad, Mark Turkall, as a ...

The northern spotted owl has had many adversaries. Three decades ago it was loggers, whose forays into the remote forests of the Pacific Northwest threatened the shy creatures, which have zero ...

BROOMALL, Pa. (WPVI) -- A man is facing charges in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, after he allegedly tried to silence his neighbor's barking dogs with poisonous meatballs. It all started about two ...