Next week (October 20-26) is Rodent Awareness Week, which makes now the perfect time to broach a topic that might make you squirm a little: the differences between mice and rats. Mice and rats might both be rodents, but they are quite different both...

Most of us know that it is a bad idea to have rodents in our homes but few people truly understand why. Sure, it can be disturbing to walk into a room and find a rodent running along a wall, especially if it is a big, fat rat. But, being startled by...