Her right hand protected by an old plastic bag, Donna Devlin carefully reaches into a shallow sewer basin in her driveway, and drags out a dead rat the size of her forearm. It's the latest casualty in a war that Devlin and her neighbours say they've been fighting, on and off, for two decades.

With less litter on the ground and garbage in Dumpsters behind restaurants, rats are seeking food elsewhere.

Unusual raccoon and red fox activity in Toronto.