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.

Re: “Rats should worry about Jack ­Russell terriers,” letter, Feb. 7. The response to my letter about ratting cats demands a reply. It claims that “Cats are not especially good ratters… [A] rat is too ...

In Chicago’s war on rats, it looks like feral cats either lack a certain killer instinct or they’re extremely picky eaters, according to a new study from Lincoln Park Zoo’s Urban Wildlife Institute.

Some Coney Island residents say they’re fed up with rats running around their neighborhood and even keeping cats away from West 32nd Street between Surf Avenue and the Coney Island boardwalk. “The ...