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Animals

How killing a RAT in your home could land you 18 months’ prison in Spain under new animal cruelty...

Simon Hunter - 23 Sep, 2023 @ 10:00

THANKS to bullfighting and other traditional fiestas that involve cruelty to creatures, Spain has not always enjoyed the greatest reputation when it comes to...

Gibraltar

Gibraltar government rages that GSD reports of ‘cockroach and rat’ infestation will harm tourism

Staff Reporter - 25 Aug, 2023 @ 14:15

THE Government of Gibraltar launched a broadside against the opposition GSD for ‘spewing rubbish’ and harming tourism on the Rock over complaints of a...

Alicante

Dozens of rats have been spotted in the city of Alicante

Lily Taylor - 25 Jul, 2023 @ 12:45

Numerous rats have been sighted across neighbourhoods in Alicante, most recently in San Blas. The company in charge of disinfection in the region stressed these...

Lead

As residents complain of filthy state of central Madrid, rats are spotted just 50 metres from the Puerta del...

Simon Hunter - 16 Mar, 2023 @ 19:15

RESIDENTS IN THE centre of Madrid have long complained about the council’s failure to clean up the rubbish, and pictures of overflowing containers and...

Malaga

Malaga’s closed kiosks have become ‘rat nests’, council orders 95 to be removed

Anthony Piovesan - 18 Feb, 2023 @ 12:45

All of Malaga’s closed kiosks, that once sold newspapers and magazines, have become ‘nests for rats’ and will need to be removed from the...

Must Read

EXPLAINER: How the black rat population is booming across Spain and what can we do about it

Fiona Govan - 26 Nov, 2021 @ 13:30

PEST controllers in Spain have issued a stark warning - the nation's black rat population is booming across urban centres. Rattus Rattus is on the...

Lead

Residents in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Spain’s Malaga concerned over plague of rats infesting the area

Cristina Hodgson - 8 Nov, 2021 @ 08:45

RESIDENTS of El Perchel—one of the oldest neighbourhoods in Malaga—are becoming increasingly concerned about a recent infestation of rats. The sight of the unwanted rodents...

Costa Blanca

Residents get ratty over vermin invasion of properties on Spain’s Mar Menor

Alex Trelinski - 3 Sep, 2020 @ 10:00

A PLAGUE of rats in a Mar Menor community has led to angry residents demanding action from the council. Complaints have poured in from the...

Lead

Outrage as Malaga town hall has just FOUR employees tackling growing rat problem

Laurence Dollimore - 14 Nov, 2017 @ 15:37

LOCALS in Malaga have blasted the city for only having four employees dedicated to tackling the growing rat problem. Former PSOE Mayor Begoña Medina agreed...

Cadiz

WATCH: Rats run riot as patients shriek at INFESTED hospital in Andalucia

Joe Wallen - 29 Sep, 2017 @ 12:48

PATIENTS attending the Hospital de La Línea were gobsmacked to see rats running freely in the building. While many patients have previously claimed to have...