Thousands in southeast Michigan have joined a movement to stop the use of rat poisons due to the harm they pose to pets and predators. The most common types of rodenticides deployed by pest control ...

Rat overpopulation has been a problem in Oakland County for years. Many neighborhood grass-roots groups have cropped up to combat this problem and educate people on the best ways to decrease the ...

Laura Mikulski of the Ferndale Rat Patrol knows it’s a bit strange, but “everybody’s gotta have a hobby…” – it just happens that hers is tracking and trapping unwanted rodents. Mikulski is a Ferndale ...

The only sound is of snow crunching under her boots. Walking down an alleyway parallel to Woodward Avenue, Laura Mikulski spots what she’s looking for and crouches in front of it: A little hole, maybe ...

After California and other states restricted the use of highly toxic rat poisons, cities have turned to a new method to try to control their rat populations: birth control. Rather than a pill, the ...