008-22920 198889 Tomcat with Bromethalin Meal Bait, 5 lb

I don't like using poison to control wildlife, but we were totally overrun with mice and chipmunks after a mild winter. There were chipmunks eating our strawberries and running around our deck within 3 feet of us without concern. I put this out and everywhere I put it, it was totally gone the next morning. That day, I only saw 2 out of probably a dozen chipmunks that had been there before. I put it out again for the second day and again it was totally gone this morning. So far one chipmunk sighting a distance from my garden. Yay!

This product did the trick. I’ve been struggling with mice for a long time. Other bait and traps (bought at a grocery store) just didn’t work. After filling a few mason jars with this stuff and putting it throughout my basement (where the mice typically enter), I haven’t seen a mouse since, aside from dead ones (the active ingredient in this product works faster than other forms of poison). It also remains effective for long periods. I put the bait out (a lot of it) 6+ months ago, and haven’t needed to replenish. One caveat: the bait will mold if exposed to water or high humidity. Although not sure if the mice are bothered by that..

I have horrendous vole problem. Live in SE Ohio forested ridge top and these varmints girdle small trees and eat roots of shrubs and trees to point of death or severe deformity. They also tunnel so much they cause "collapses/sink holes" in flower garden. I use this product placed directly in tunnel openings as well as puncture tunnels. I use a funnel with tube for both of these methods. It is a single meal kill which is all I use. Trying to bait for multiple feedings, in my opinion is inefficient and if your going to dispatch something, do it quick. I also broadcast Eraze AG in winter when food is scarce and slim risk of desirable small animals will eat it. I also bait with I also have planted garlic as read that voles will stay away where growing. I haven't noticed any marked improvement. I also use bait stations and spikes with Jaguar All-Weather Bait Chunx. I like this product but has significant cost particularly using with bait stations. I have a recent finding that others may find helpful for voles. I planted a slope for quick erosion control with Asian Wild Ginger. Very good quick growing nice looking ground cover that spread rapidly. It has spread quickly, looks great, hearty in almost all soil and conditions, deer resistant AND where it has become prominent ground cover, I have no vole problem. I will not fully review this plant as do your own research, I do want to add that it does tend to be a bit invasive. SO I hope this helps some with others into shrubs and perennials that are dealing with one of the most miserable enemies to our endeavor. Peace out!

It says it works for voles, so I decided to try it on groundhogs that have made multiple holes on my 4 acre lawn. I tried scent deterrents (ammonia, 30% vinegar, pepper flakes, epson salt, lavender, moth balls), filling their holes with pebbles and stones -- none of it worked. I also tried poison with Zinc Phosphate and that didn't help either. THIS IS IT! This has different poison ingredient, Bromethalin. I have not seen them active in a few days and I'm thrilled. Pour a generous amount in their holes, ideally on a dry/sunny day. They seem to have died in their tunnels as I haven't had any dead carcasses. The only other thing that helped was to trap them in a cage and dispose of them, but that service costed me $595 for 1 week, and let's just say that I had many more than the 2 that were caught. This product is definitely worth trying.

Rats reproduce fast. Good luck with trapping. It is my personal belief that exterminators want to use traps because it makes them a fortune in fees. If you are throwing these in between the floors of your home or in crawl spaces where your pets cannot go, you can get rid of a huge investation of roof rats in 24 hours. I had to sleep with earplugs because of the noise in the night hours. I use a fitbit to monitor my sleep and I was getting virtually "no" sleep. For weeks and weeks I trapped and trapped to no avail. 24 hours after I threw these seeds into my crawl space attic and above the lower-level ceiling (by cutting an access panel), THEY WERE GONE!! Forget about them smelling bad when they die. Big deal. Get some wax melts and get over it. PROBLEM SOLVED. Rats destroy your home, the break and tear apart electrical wires inisde your wall, they can make copper pipes leak in your walls. You need to eradicate the problem. I was in tears when I realized I couldn't hear a single sound last night. They are all gone after over a month of trapping and more than $300 investment in various traps and endless hours of baiting new traps. THIS WORKS. HALLELUJAH!

I was struggling for one month with some very smart rats. I was ashamed that a rat could outsmart me although I have a Ph. D. in biology. I have a camera set up to observe wildlife in front of my house and one day I observed some rat activity. First I bought the rat poison “Tomcat with Bromethalin Bait Chunkx Pail” for $28. Unfortunately, the rats did not even get close to them as I observed on the replay camera footage. Then I decided to pulverize the chunks and mix them with some dog food and small amounts of peanut butter. I made ½ inch balls (using rubber gloves) and put them out on a small plastic tray. This time the rats happily transported the balls back to their burrow. After a week of making poison balls and not observing any change, I decided to order “Motomco 008-22920 198889 Tomcat with Bromethalin Meal Bait, 5 lb” for $41. Unfortunately, the rats hardly touched the poison. Then I made small balls with this poison as described above but did not need to pulverize saving me some effort. The rats liked these balls but did not seem to have any detrimental effect on them. They were happily collecting them and taking them back to their den. Finally, after a month I went to Home Depot and bought 2 Victor M201 Rat Traps with metal trigger for $5.20. (Note: Do not buy the Victor M326 Rat Traps with the plastic pedal trigger, those are greatly inferior). I set up the traps at dusk to avoid catching any squirrels. Put a little peanut butter on the triggers with a spatula to avoid transferring any human smell. I set up one trap close to where I observed rat activity with my camera and another by a large entrance hole in the ground. Within 2 hours I killed two large, about 10-inch size rats with each trap. The next week all rat activity sized. My conclusions: 1/ The poison did not kill the large rats. They did not eat enough of it in one month or they were somehow resistant to the poison. 2/ Using the poison and Victor trap together makes sense. The poison will kill the rat pups and the trap will eliminate the large rats. 3/ I hope that this write-up helps someone with very smart rats.

We have an open area behind our house where all sorts of rodents immigrate into our yard. A few days ago I saw a rat run across the patio and disappear from view. I ran out to follow it and it had disappeared. There were a few places it could have gone but one place in particular to hide. Fortunately where I thought it went is a place where the dog can't go, so I poured some of this bait there and also in the center of the bush where I believe it came from. Yesterday, which is 4 or 5 days later, I found a half dead rat in the flower bed. Today, I (well actually the dog sniffed it out) found another rat half dead under a bush. So in 2 days we got rid of two rats. Today's rat was around 50% bigger than the one yesterday. The rats weren't dead, only incapacitated enough so I could pick them up with a shovel and they didn't move much at all. Glad I found them alive before the dog got hold of them or they died and started to stink. So, my experience is good with this product. Hopefully it will work for you as well.

After four months of using it finally no signs of rat crap in my engine compartment for the past two week, more than likely because ran out of it two weeks ago. Probably got a bad batch and was just feeding the pack rats, and as soon as the food source was gone, they didn't bother to come back. It had worked in the past and so ordered two more containers but that was just a waste of time and money. I would presume that this stuff has an issue with storage and maybe another new container might work but at those prices can't afford again to take the risk. So it deserves zero stars for the past two containers went thru with no results. Used to smell somewhere around fairly close by the smell of something that had died, but not in the past four months of usage.