What that translates into is a win-win for rats: more people living in cities means more food for rats to eat, and warmer temperatures means that rats have more time to both search for food and ...

Doing so regularly will ensure you know what’s changed if rats do come around. In the Northern U.S., Fredericks says, that might mean burrows from your flower beds into your homes. In warmer ...

Even though Washington has the highest increasing trend that doesn’t mean it has more rats or even rat sightings, it is just that the numbers within the city are increasing fastest, he said.