Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky The capital city is testing out a kinder, gentler approach to reducing the rat ...

Rats aren't just a nuisance. They can carry diseases and are a leading causes of property damage. One community in Massachusetts is trying a novel approach to rat reduction: Birth control.

BOSTON (WHDH) - A pilot program has been testing out ways to curb the Boston rat population without using poison. People in one Jamaica Plain neighborhood have been feeding rats birth control as part ...

A neighborhood in Boston has been testing a pilot program that uses birth control for rats to decrease the city's pest population, 7News Boston reported. In Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood in southern ...

It’s a birth control pellet made with corn and peanuts, and a team of researchers and volunteers will be serving it to discerning rats in a four-block area of Lincoln Park for a year. The aim is to ...

BOSTON - Animal welfare issues were front and center at the Statehouse Wednesday as legislators heard from animal advocates promoting cruelty-free testing of household products while colleagues ...