All news on the topic: Giant rats

Retired hospitality worker Wendy King spotted the huge rodent right outside her back door. She said it looked more "like a rabbit" and was "very docile in nature"

Deborah Barrett, from Stockbridge in Merseyside, has been without her beloved Nissan Note for months after the sensor wires were chewed following a local rat infestation

Here is a list of seven clever ways to stop rats from invading your home after a spike in cases with pest controllers saying they have been inundated with calls this winter

There could be as many as 250 million rats in the UK - and bin delays combined with wet winter weather is driving millions of these vermin indoors into UK homes

A horde of rats were seen running out from the blanket as the TikToker apparently went to wake the homeless person huddling beneath it on the corner a subway platform

Pest control boss Sean Whelan, managing director of HPC247 Whelan Pest Prevention, has recalled some of the very worst horror stories from his job including pests invading some people's beds as they slept

The UK's rat population has been taking over householders' homes while they were away from their properties over the festive break Some residents have returned to find their homes disturbed by vermin

19-year-old Lilliana and her friend had settled down to watch "Wonka" at the AMC Operheum in New York when rats suddenly ran around their shoes during the previews

Bin men are unable to collect rubbish safely as the vermin have completely overwhelmed some neighbourhoods with refuse collectors hospitalised with rat bites

Michaela Ali, 36, a nursing assistance living in Manchester city centre, said she's been forced to live between hotels while heavily pregnant due to the severe rat infestation in her housing association property

Dozens of furious renters in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, are withholding their monthly payments until their housing association steps in to rid them of their pest problem that has been going on for two years

Janet Reynolds, 44, had no idea that her elderly friend's home had fallen into such a state of mould and rats after not being allowed in since the onset of Covid

A Glasgow union has warned the rat infestation is having a 'detrimental effect' on the mental health of workers, due to the health hazards posed by the grim vermin

A resident told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that flytipping is an ongoing issue and has attracted pests in an alleyway in North Ormesby

A thirsty rodent was caught on camera hopping around a cage, surrounded by empty bottles of alcohol it had been sipping from. The bottles had been seized by the police

New York council member Julie Menin has revealed she's identified a successful rat-killing method that has a 'remarkable reduction' in vermin on the affluent Upper East Side

The shocked resident, who was out for a walk in Leith, Edinburgh, when she saw the gigantic brown rat hanging from a branch and munching on birdseed

Councillor Colin Ferguson called for action from Newcastle City Council and Urban Green Newcastle, who manage the city's green spaces, to tackle the city's vermin problem

A seven-year-old girl was left trembling with fear after a 'massive' rat invaded a children's playground in Glasgow at the Happy Children's Park and hid under a roundabout

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES - Pest controller Gareth Davies said some rats in Wales are now the size of small cats, and the new ban will only make the problem of vermin worse

Residents living in Spinningdale, Nottingham, claim an abandoned house has sparked a rat infestation that's so severe it poses a risk to 'human and animal health'

Council bosses has launched an investigation into the 'dire state' of the empty home in Arnold, Nottingham, where one neighbour found a dead rat in her garden

Mutant ‘super rats’ have been plaguing the streets of Britain as overflowing rubbish builds amidst a series of bin strikes - they're also becoming harder to get rid of

A derelict bungalow, formerly known as White Wings, has been dragging down the prices of surrounding houses on West Cliff Gardens in Herne Bay, Kent, residents have complained

Camille Oladokun has vowed never to eat at McDonald's again after staff beat a giant rat to death in front of her and her daughter's eyes as they dined at the London Westfield branch