Rats can survive for 3 minutes underwater and can swim through toilet traps. They are attracted to homes by smells. Climbing up vertical pipes is not a problem for them. If you find a rat in your ...

It may seem odd to picture a rat coming up through a drain or toilet, but it can happen in homes that are connected to sewer ...

A Wayne County woman was horrified to find rats that came up through the sewer system and into her toilet and is trying to get answers as to why this happened. The Charter Street resident posted a ...

In North Carolina, we’re used to having snakes around, and they occasionally make headlines for getting caught in some unusual situations. For example, snakes have made national headlines this summer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rat wanders the subway tracks at Union Square in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File) Recent storms have caused major ...

A Canadian man found a rat in his toilet, and his month only got worse from there. In a recent case report, the man’s doctors described how he contracted an unusual and severe infection from being ...

One May afternoon a few years ago, on the second floor of my prewar co-op building in Carroll Gardens, my neighbor was working in her bedroom when she heard splashing from the bathroom. Assuming her ...

No one wants to find a rat swimming around in their toilet bowl. If one turns up, however, it’s best that you know what to do. This is why the city of Seattle and Washington’s King County Public ...