SAN DIEGO (CN) – Pet care company Petco shouldn’t sell pet rats given the risk they carry the bacteria that causes rat bite fever, an attorney for the family of a boy who died after contracting the ...

FRUITPORT TOWNSHIP, MI - By late May, domestic rats had overrun a home and animal rescue operation in Muskegon County, called the Critter Cafe Rescue. Muskegon County Sheriff Animal Control officer ...

A creative pet owner has shared the unusual way she stopped her domestic rat from trying to eat her food. "It all started with a regular taco night," Cherie Jones, co-founder of Tiny Toes Rat Rescue ...

Maybe a rat is right for you! Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared on MTV, The Frisky, Vice, and Best Friends Magazine ...

At least eight people have been infected with rare Seoul virus, the CDC said. — -- Health officials are investigating an outbreak of the rare Seoul virus, among pet rats and people exposed to rat ...