Tomcat Rat & Mouse Killer, Child & Dog Resistant, Refillable Station

Anticoagulant rodenticides are dangerous for secondary poisoning. I chose this one because it has lower risk. I put up a bird feeder in June and suddenly some rats moved under my patio stoop. They were driving my dogs crazy, active pretty much all day (on and off). One dog got scratched on her eye when she cornered a rat she chased, so I needed to find a quick solution. I put this out near the entrance under my concrete stoop on Saturday night and less than 48 hrs later, 2 Norway rats dead in the yard. I put a mask on and gloves, grabbed it with old tongs and placed in a bucket with bleach, then after a few minutes I double bagged it and dump in the garbage bin. The next morning, another rat was dead in the yard. Luckily garbage pick up was the next morning. I like the bait station window because I was able to see the rats eating the bait. I haven't replaced the bait yet as there's still 1/2 of one left. I'm grossed out by rats and seeing poop on my patio, I sprayed everything with bleach as these can carry diseases.

A good unit but a bit complicated to open, I guess to make it childproof. Slugs love the bait and make a mess, so put it in a dry place.

Works pretty good. I wish there was a way to anchor it down the raccoons steal the whole thing. I’ll have to buy another one.

Okay so this is the lowdown of the whole deal. My grandkids come to visit me and of course bring their friends and they're in the bedroom eating and drinking and they're laying stuff everywhere and the food gets on the floor or they know they drinks over and here come the mice. so we had to have a little pow wow about that. About them leaving food out it was not a good thing so I had to buy mice poison and the first one I got didn't do any good I mean you might as well been feeding them candy. So I did my homework and I studied up on what was good and what wasn't good so this stuff it's strong it's not messy you don't have to worry about if it works or not because within an hour after these things eat this stuff they're dead. No if hands are both about it. They're small in size . But they are made with a chemical that will end your problem. You don't want to touch it with your hands. you want to get something to pick it up with , for instance gloves . Their little green squares and it comes with a box of for the bait so when you place these little squares of poison down in this bait trap which I think it holds two of them they say one block will kill 10 mice or one block will kill three rats. And you got a little window on the top of that thing that you can check them when the when the blocks are gone and the mice are ass eat them then you will see the appearance on top of that bait trap because you don't have to pick it up. And it's not unattractive I mean you can set them under a dresser in your bedroom or you can set them beside your refrigerator and it's big enough that the rats can go in and out. I bought one of that was for mice but they didn't want to go in there but they go in there when I bought them big enough for the rats. I learned these rats and mice are educated they know sometimes they just are too smart. I can figure you out sometimes but when they get hungry enough and you put your food up and you don't leave stuff out and you clean your counters off and you clean everything up then you're going to get good results. And that box is easy to assemble so that way you can just pop you two of those poison blocks in there and snap it shut and that's all you need and it don't take no time for you to get those pest killed . I think it's a good speed then within the hour after they eat them that they're dead you don't have to worry about it no more just every once in awhile you might have a few stragglers come in but just keep buying it because it's really worth the money.

The theory of this product is the poison makes the rat really thirsty and so it will go out somewhere to find water and then die. In my case this was a huge disaster. I placed trap in my crawl space and the Rat ate the poison but then decided to chew through and completely shred four different PEX tubing water lines before it died. Home Owners insurance had Pex tubing sent to lab and investigated and said it was a rat that damaged the tubing - but I already found the Norway rat that eventually died. So...this poison does work but I would suggest that you provide a water source that is easy for them to find along with using the trap, especially if you are putting it anywhere in a crawl space. I have talked to plumbers and Exterminators and they recommended the Water Source too. Wish I knew this ahead of time! Thousands of dollars of damage and of course insurance does not cover rodent damage or the mold that grew on my subfloor, removal of insulation and putting back new insulation, tearing out toilet and entire kitchen island and putting back kitchen island. None of it is covered only tearing out my hardwood and putting back in my hardwood is covered by insurance. I only noticed the leak because the hardwood floor had pushed up in one area of the kitchen. When we got under the house we discovered 3 more leaks in totally different areas. The tubing was completely punched through with holes or one areas were shredded. Two different plumbers have told me that they have seen rats punch holes through copper pipes also. They can hear and follow the sound of running water so if they are desperately thirsty they will chew through your pipes. I did not have any of these leaks and have lived here for almost eight years in a new home until I used the Trap. We had seen one rat run under the house through a very small opening that we didn't realize was there on the lid of the crawl space and so we placed the Trap. We had not had any water problems ever before this. The rat could have come back out the same way he went into the house and looked for water when he was thirsty after eating the bait but he decided to chew through pipes instead. Hopefully this helps someone else avoid all of this headache.

his has been the most effective rat and mouse killer I've tried, and I feel a lot safer using it with kids and dogs around thanks to the resistant station design. Easy to monitor and refill too.

we had an outdoor rat infestation, but are now living rat-free! ... thanks to this Tomcat bait box, as well as the items and measures taken below! ... | observations | • it takes two(2) bait chunks at a time • it is easy to open and load the bait chunks • it has a window to see and monitor the chunks without opening • it is water/outdoor resistant they consumed MOTOMCO rat bait with Bromethalin from these boxes and returned to their nests to perish in a few days... just as claimed! ... the following are things that we learned, in our lil' rat war; | rat intel | • neighborhood activism: get your neighbors involved, as the problem is very unlikely limited to your property... rats eat dog feces and bird seed and just about anything, but, in our neighborhood, it is the theory that they were feeding (or are still feeding) at a neighbor that does not clean up after their dog and living at another neighbor that does not leave their home interior and has let their garage and yard go to squaller…. thus, our yard has become a traffic route and/or playground between these two locations on our street. but it is a city wide problem, as we have learned via nextdoor website for our city… so, neighbor involvement is a must, as you may eliminate them from living, playing, or feeding on your property, but they will still be local and will likely return. if you do not know your neighbors and do not want to do the door-to-door thing, then join nextdoordotcom for your city and post something like "Unwanted Neighbors - Rats!" ... this is how we learned that it is a pervasive, city-wide problem and we are both receiving and disseminating information via this site… though i appreciate that most of us no longer “need” neighbors in this era, you do NEED your neighbors as allies in this war! • multi-front approach: utilize some additional artillery besides bait in bait boxes, such as Victor traps... the Victor traps are tried and true traps, and the most efficient and cost effective means of eliminating rats... they are easy to set & hold with great sensitivity... and, they work! • bait type matters!: as far as bait for bait boxes, Bromethalin is in the bait chunks we are using and is the ingredient claimed to be the best to poison rats. as for trap bait, we first tried peanut butter with no results on the rats, but it resulted in some very unfortunate collateral damage to other rodents... so, we switched to raw bacon, and, while the other rodents are disinterested, the rats can not resist, and snap!, our rat squatter war is slowly being won! so, if it is outdoors, do not use peanut butter, unless you want to risk eliminating chipmunks and squirrels, as well (we do not) ... rather, try raw bacon... here are links to another outdoor rat bait box twin pack, the rat bait we are using, and a good value 12-pack of Victor traps for a 2nd front: • Compact Rat Bait Station TWIN PACK (Bait Not Included) • MOTOMCO Tomcat Mouse and Rat Bromethalin Bait Chunx, 4-Pound • Victor Metal Pedal Rat Trap (Pack of 12) if you want to keep it cheap and simple, then these Victor traps can not be beat, especially in this economical 12 pack. lastly, best wishes to your soon rat-free life…. :-) Thank you.

I've been unfortunate to have a couple of rats find their way into the thin space between my sheet rock ceiling in my garage office loft, and the plywood & roofing shingles above the sheet rock, separated only by the old 2x4 rafters of the original garage. Because they found some mysterious way into that space, there has been no way to get them out. Its not like its an attic or crawl space. I could set snap traps on the roof and kill every squirrel within a block during the day, or make tents or wooden cages with snap traps inside that only a rat could cram into. My one constant was this rat bait. If I just keep refilling the bait stations, I'll eventually kill them all, right? It got to where I had six plastic bait stations surrounding the garage area and even further out. I'd check the bait blocks each weekend to see which box was being nibbled on. A couple stations were empty every weekend and some were half gone, but never was there a dead rat. Not in my yard, my next door neighbors, or even my other neighbors. Not once has a dead rat been found from my three years of poisoning them with the Tom Cat stuff, and my orders account for hundreds of bait blocks in tubs and packages. But more interestingly, the rate of consumption at each station remained exactly the same for three years. I became convinced that this modified bait poison had be compromised in the last few years to where its environmentally safer, but doesn't kill rats. Maybe little mice, but not rats, or not rats in my area, but come on! The only other option would be that I killed hundreds of rats over the three years (based on the kill rate on the packaging), but they all went to some other neighborhood to die, which would be very thoughtful of them, but not really. Not likely. Some of those dudes would have died close to home, and my office ceiling was one of their homes. No smell, no bodies, nothing.....except another week of happy hour feeding on these bait blocks that do nothing to rats. But I won in the end and this product assisted in the strangest way. Since I could see the nibbling on each of my six bait stations, I knew where they were mostly hanging out. I could tell which bar they liked the best, so did build three wooden cages with wire grid tops so I could see in without having to lift up a box to freak out seeing an ugly dead rat. I put the boxes and the new cool black plastic snap traps (the wood ones are stupid compared to the new black plastic jaw traps), near the most popular snack bar bait stations, and nailed the two most frequent customers on the first night. I waited two weeks to view the nibbling pattern once those main customers had been run out of town, and found a new pattern, and moved the wooden cage boxes and traps right next to those other Tom Cat plastic bait stations, and nailed those out of towners too. So really, I ought to give these bait blocks a 5 star review for leading me to where to set the wooden boxes and snap traps, but isn't that sort beside the point?