In the Long Island rattery, which is a room in her parents’ house, Williams shows me animals with fancy coat colors and patterns. She talks about the complexities of keeping the rats healthy and ...

Beatrix Potter, who had her own pet fancy rat called Sammy, cast them in a less than favourable light in The Tale of Samuel ...

But what if Austin isn’t your hometown? Out-of-staters who moved here (which is increasingly likely) have to dig deeper to ...

A Southern Indiana father was found guilty on three felony charges after his 6-month-old son “nearly died,” according to prosecutors, after suffering more than 50 untreated rat bites at the ...

The rats adopted from the café are known as "fancy rats," which are rescued from pet stores or breeders. “When you're not constantly at war with a creature like a rat, you can have an ...

There are around 100,000 rats kept as pets in the UK You dirty rat; I smell a rat; like a rat deserting a sinking ship. It's clear from the English language that rats don't have the best ...

Third District Niagara County Legislator Christopher McKimmie has lived in Niagara Falls’ LaSalle neighborhood for more than a decade, but this year was the first time he had seen a rat in the area.

The US does not include within its animal welfare laws and regulations the rats, mice and birds who are subjected to research and testing. The federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) was amended in 1970 to ...

DAVID Ryder's now customary broadside about seagulls (You Say, Wednesday, August 11) should not persuade us to ignore an otherwise fairly rational moan about the state of Worcester's cultural ...