Animal control officials say that a home in New York has been condemned, and its owner arrested. ABC News reports that the residence has been “completely overrun by hundreds of rats that were kept as pets.”
ABC reports that could be anywhere from 300 to 500 rats inside the home, with hundreds possibly in the walls.
Rats in and around the New York City metropolitan area are nothing new, though their numbers continue to increase. In 2024, PIX11 had reported that Terminix rated New York City as the most rat-infested city in the U.S…