Neogen RODENTICIDE Havoc XT Rat Bait Block Pouch, 8-Pound (00595)

Amazing results. First the warnings, read the label - not recommended for residential use, do not get it on your hands or clothes, is poisonous to people and pets. The problem - three years ago the playground behind my city house was majorly renovated. As a result, every house on my block was effected and infested with mice that were displaced. I really didn't want to use poison and tried everything first - catch and release traps, peppermint oil, sticky traps, snap traps, 5 gallon bait buckets with contraptions to make them fall in, other brands from Lowe's/Home Depot with bait stations - nothing worked and I was desperate. I bought 6 lockable traps with the 8lb Neogen 00595 Havoc XT Rat Bait Blocks and set them up Tuesday night. Putting them outside was not an option, again city house, and I have a dog I take out to the backyard. Set the bait/traps up wearing gloves and thoroughly washed hands/arms and clothes after. Then put the rest of the bag in a dog proof container where she can't reach it. Placed the traps where the dog can't get them and kept her next to me while working from home all day the last 3 days, she sleeps with me at night. Was concerned that when they go looking for water after ingesting the poison that the dog would get at them. Luckily, it rained for a day and a half. I think that may have caused them to leave the same way they got in, which I haven't been able to find yet. It's Friday, the fourth night, at the time I would usually hear them, and I hear nothing. There's no smell. Some got caught in the sticky traps I still had out, but I'm sure that wasn't all of them. Did see three scampering to get away from me today, but expect they're on their way out shortly. Am not leaving dog home alone until a few days after I don't see any and can take the traps up. Have not checked to see how much of the bait has been consumed yet. Contractor comes out next week to tear up old decking in the yard and seal my brick and foundation. Am hoping that solves this issue of how they entered. Highly recommended, but only with the utmost caution, especially around pets. Would not use anywhere near children. I rarely leave reviews, but am utterly amazed at how effective this product is.

I went from being infested with ground squirrels to being infested with little mice. I used a similar product for the ground squirrels but this was a bit cheaper so I decided to give it a try.I hadn't realized I had a colony living under the feeding stations.I tried flooding the area (One of my dogs is a pointer lab mix who is a better mouser than any cat I've ever had, and is far less coyote bait than those same cats. When flooding the area, he was catching between five and ten mice daily for nearly a week. This was the most satisfactory method because we could see the actual progress, but living in the desert, I couldn't afford to keep flooding the area.)I tried the ultra sonic noise machines, I tried the plastic owls, I tried peppermint oil (which deterred them, but they came back as fast as the oil scent faded) finally I decided the problem was out of hand enough to take the risk with my two dogs.Rather than use a small bait holder, I put 10 of these blocks on a coat hanger and placed that hanger where my dogs could not reach it. The next morning they were all gone and there was a huge pile of droppings in the area so I put another 15 cubes out the second night. Those also disappeared in one night and the droppings were turning color. I decided not to put any more out for a week. (It is a bit expensive to feed dying mice extra meals.)Five days of agony spent keeping the dogs indoors (I still had to be concerned about the dogs catching the dead or dying mice.) and only letting them out under strict supervision. (YOU try keeping two one year old dogs under control in the house... go on, I dare you. Then try watching them outside when they run far faster than you can move using a walker. Go ahead. Let me know how you fare.)We haven't seen a mouse in the past two days, and there are no fresh droppings anywhere we've seen. So we know this stuff works great. I am reasonably sure the mice haven't just moved like they did with the flooding, owls, sonic devices and other attempted methods.The dogs have been digging up the area where the infestation was at its worst, and I'm still considerably concerned about them eating a dead mouse so I purchased some vitamin K (just in case) and have been watching them very closely for changes in appetite or thirst. Now, I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that the dogs are safe and the mice are as gone as I believe they are.Just where do these little guys come from? I live in the middle of the desert and these are the little gray house mice, not desert mice.

My residential neighborhood has seen a large uptick in rats. This is due to us living near parks, and after Tropical Storm Ida hit last September with severe river flooding, rats we're pretty commonly seen. When I noticed them going under my porch and in my garage (large droppings) I knew I had to get serious. I used two other incredibly highly rated mice/rat baits on Amazon, and wasn't sure how well they we're working. The bait was being eaten consistently, but I wasn't seeing bodies. I wasn't sure if it was the same rats eating it, and we're unaffected, or if these we're new rats. Unfortunately all these rat baits are hard to see how effective they are as once rats eat them they can essentially go anywhere and die anywhere depending how long the poison takes. So I wasn't sure if my poison was killing some, than new ones we're coming in their place. This poison was my last ditch effort before calling an exterminator. I use bait boxes around my home and garage for safety (I have a dog, as others in the neighborhood). I also decided to put some through a wire and screw it into a large 2x6 board in my enclosed garage. After a day of putting it out I found a dead rat right on the side of my garage. It actually smelled terrible, and I believe this poison did it in as the belly was the same color blue as the bait. I ended up getting a second one, and had to tear up garage to find it. This worked good for me. One word of caution, and the label says this as well. You don't want this bait in your home. If you put it in your home there is a good chance a rat or mouse will eat it, than die in your wall causing a trapped, terrible odor in your home.