EditorialA woman with three rats on her shoulder at the SPCA of Anne Arundel County’s store Paws at the Mall inside the Westfield Annapolis Mall in Annapolis, Md., on April 22, 2023. (Matt Roth/The New York Times)
EditorialA woman with three rats on her shoulder at the SPCA of Anne Arundel County’s store Paws at the Mall inside the Westfield Annapolis Mall in Annapolis, Md., on April 22, 2023. (Matt Roth/The New York Times)
EditorialA woman with three rats on her shoulder at the SPCA of Anne Arundel County’s store Paws at the Mall inside the Westfield Annapolis Mall in Annapolis, Md., on April 22, 2023. (Matt Roth/The New York Times)
EditorialA woman with three rats on her shoulder at the SPCA of Anne Arundel County’s store Paws at the Mall inside the Westfield Annapolis Mall in Annapolis, Md., on April 22, 2023. (Matt Roth/The New York Times)
EditorialA woman with three rats on her shoulder at the SPCA of Anne Arundel County’s store Paws at the Mall inside the Westfield Annapolis Mall in Annapolis, Md., on April 22, 2023. (Matt Roth/The New York Times)
EditorialA woman with three rats on her shoulder at the SPCA of Anne Arundel County’s store Paws at the Mall inside the Westfield Annapolis Mall in Annapolis, Md., on April 22, 2023. (Matt Roth/The New York Times)
EditorialShawn Woods, a YouTube host who blurs rats’ dying moments in videos and often demonstrates the traps with stuffed animals, at his home’s makeshift studio near Monmouth, Ore., Feb. 1, 2023. (Michael Hanson/The New York Times)
EditorialMayor Eric Adams makes the State of the City address at the Queens Theatre in Queens borough of New York, on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. (Caitlin Ochs/The New York Times)
EditorialBethany Brookshire, the author of “Pests,” searches for rats behind a dumpster in Asheville, N.C. on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. (Mike Belleme/The New York Times)
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Editorial Eric Adams, then the Brooklyn borough president, demonstrates a new technique for trapping and drowning rats during a news conference in Brooklyn, Sept. 5, 2019. (John Taggart/The New York Times)
EditorialDanielle Le Men, a retired teacher and activist who fears the arrival of ?radical Islam? in Callac, France, Sept. 22, 2022. (Andrea Mantovani/The New York Times)
EditorialElisabeth Jeffrey, a server at Spunto, says cars often run over trash bags at the curb, making it easier for rats to get in. (Emon Hassan/The New York Times)
EditorialDaniel Barber pointing to evidence of nesting rats, at the Andrew Jackson Houses in the Bronx, Oct. 19, 2021. (Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet/The New York Times)
EditorialDaniel Barber pointing to evidence of nesting rats, at the Andrew Jackson Houses in the Bronx, Oct. 19, 2021. (Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet/The New York Times)
EditorialAn inflatable ?Scabby the Rat,? leads a labor union group walking on 5th Avenue for a Labor Day parade in New York, Sept. 12, 2015. (Kirsten Luce/The New York Times)