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 ...

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 ...

What do you call the bad version of a cherry on top, or icing on the cake? For those in King County reeling from back-to-back atmospheric rivers and the ensuing flooding chaos, it might just be toilet ...

A family with two young children claim they've been forced to sleep in the garden after rats began leaping out of their toilet. John Evans, 47, says the rodents started crawling up the drainpipes and ...