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What councils across the UK told us about pest control and stray dogs, from Freedom of Information requests and each council's own published information.
29 October 2026
Freedom of Information replies show many district councils have quietly withdrawn pest control, while the councils that still run a service logged thousands of rat call-outs a year.
29 October 2026
Freedom of Information replies from councils in England and Scotland show what happened to the stray dogs they collected, with Southend and North Warwickshire among the highest put-to-sleep figures in our sample.