Because rats and mice are better able to take control of their microenvironment in an enriched cage, macroenvironmental conditions become much less influential. Such macroenvironmental conditions ...

Williams walks over to a large cage and picks out a fat gray rat ... Corrigan, the rat expert, doesn’t have a heart rat now, but he has owned pet rats in the past. Decades of trying to outsmart ...

When I walked into the lab one day, I noticed something unusual: The three driving-trained rats ran to the side of the cage, ...

Harry Houdini was a world-famous escape artist from the late 1890s until his death in 1926. Houdini the rat was a great ...

Rats can be taught simple tricks such as retrieving objects ... time spent playing with the pet outside of its cage. Affordability should also factor into your decision on pet ownership — anything ...

A woman who kept more than 100 pet rats in dirty and overcrowded conditions ... Animal rescue officers found 38 rodents running loose and 74 others in cages, with the smell of ammonia "so ...

All pets (rats, mice, guinea pigs) in the owners' households were also treated in the same way. The rodents' cages and environment were thoroughly decontaminated with fipronil spray. On follow-up ...

Cranston considers rat birth control and possums as possible strategies, while Providence is starting to use a liquid form of ...

He added that his pet ducks had been "going mad" as rats broke into their cages. The rats have also infested the neighbouring town of Karumba in the past few weeks and some residents worry they ...

A woman who left her cats and dogs "locked in cages to starve" has been banned from owning animals for 10 years, police have said. Shelby Russel's pets were "living in their own faeces" and "near ...

He started with a normal cage that you can buy at the pet store to house rodents like hamsters and gerbils. But it couldn’t hold Houdini the rat. He learned how to use his nimble rat-fingers to ...