Animal rescue volunteers are racing to find new homes for hundreds of pet rats found running amok in a filthy, now condemned ...

Pet rodents are a potential source of salmonella, says the CDC, warning people to wash their hands thoroughly after handling hamsters, mice, or rats — or their cages and bedding. These pets were the ...

Recent news reports of a rat infestation in the Bedford Park area of The Bronx have many New Yorkers more terrified than usual of rodents. But some city dwellers see a very different side to the ...

When Abby Chronister started college six years ago, she found herself struggling with anxiety and depression. After class, she often retreated to her bed. That’s when she adopted her first two rats, ...

A teenage girl who was scratched when breaking up a scuffle among her three pet rats wound up in the hospital with an extremely rare case of rat-bite fever. The infection, which is caused by a ...

She’s got a soft spot for vermin. A so-called extreme rodent fanatic has gone viral after bathing her 50 rat “babies” in her kitchen sink. Michele Raybon, 51, of Palmdale, California, hasn’t stopped ...

A disease associated with squalor could be on the increase in suburban homes because more people are keeping rodents as pets, warns an Australian microbiologist. Known as rat bite fever, the disease ...

Rat lovers are used to being misunderstood. “When my husband told his ex that we got rats, she said, ‘On purpose?”’ says Tami Kaplan of Waltham, Mass., proud owner of three of the maligned rodents.