Senior Horticulturist Jean Schwartz fills the rat burrows with dry ice to get rid of the rodents. Polaris/Matthew McDermott They’re icing out rats in Battery Park City. Local maintenance crews ...

It's a good idea to remove rats from your backyard, and some people and pest control companies do so with dry ice. But should ...

Rat bites can introduce bacteria and other disease-causing pathogens into wounds. You can apply antibiotic ointment on the wound before covering it with a clean, dry dressing.” This advice doesn ...