Rat birth control could combat annoying rodent infestations

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 1, 2022

Over the years people have tried a lot of ways to control rat populations on farms using traps, poisons and even hunting them with cats or dogs. Now there’s a new option: promoting rodent safe sex. Given that one female rat is capable of producing 1,500 offspring in a single year, birth control would seem like a no-brainer. That is why rat-hunting expert Wendy Berry is returning to Maine this spring with her trained dogs and bait that contains rat birth control chemicals.