People who are trying to tackle a huge rise in rats have been told that there is a serious issue for anyone who is using ‘humane’ traps to catch them. Many people don’t want to use lethal traps or ...

New York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other rodents, eyeing contraception and a ban on glue traps as alternatives to poison or a slow, brutal death.

08:48, Wed, Jul 29, 2026 Updated: 10:41, Wed, Jul 29, 2026 The UK is being hit by a massive plague of rats, according to pest experts who say callouts have soared in the summer of 2026 as heatwaves ...