J T Eaton JT Eaton 704-AP Block Anticoagulant, Apple Flavor, for Mice and Rats (Pail of 64) rodenticide Bait

Backstory: I moved into a late 1970's mobile home on 1/2 of land in a small neighborhood on the outskirts of an isolated city halfway between Phoenix and Tucson with nothing else around it except open desert for at least 15-20 miles in every direction. They mobile home had been vacant for several years prior to me moving in, and became quickly apparent had most likely never been properly sealed or insulated and had been free game for all the mice to turn the walls into their own B&Bs. I knew I was going to have my work cut out for me as far as sealing up the house to keep out the wildlife in the desert that seems to all be bioengineered cause serious damage to humans. I was able to successfully eradicate a scorpion infestation, which is extremely hard to do, I managed to insulate everything to keep out the 110°+ summer heat, but the one thing I couldn't get under control no matter how many tactics I tried was getting and keeping these d#@n mice out of my house. I've tried every live catch, snap trap, sticky paper, electrified, bucket plank trap on the market, and the only thing that works d temporarily was the snap traps and peanut butter as bait, but within a week I'd hear them in the walls again. I had to wage war on these disease ridden rodents because they have a highly toxic chemical in their urine that could make both me and my dog VERY sick. After trying the popular bait from the brand with a cat on the packaging and the brand with the commercial with mice baking poisonous brownies and not having a single nibble taken out out of either of them, I had basically lost all faith that bait products like those would have any effect at all. After researching each of the main ingredients in rodenticide products and the effect each has on the internal system of mice, I decided to try this JT Eaton bait in the apple flavor but cause my research led me to believe it could very well be the most effective method to finally eradicate all the mice and help stop the problem before it gets out of control in the future. So I bought a bunch of steel wool and gap Filler spray adhesive, stuffed and filled every tiny crevice around my house larger then the size of a nickel, and set out a few makeshift bait stations I constructed out of small shipping boxes with one block of these apple scented bait blocks inside that I secured in place with a long twist tie fed through two small holes in the back of the box. I cut two holes, one entrance, one exit, so that when I placed the box on the floor up against a wall, the openings were placed directly in the path the mice would take when they moved along the walls so they stay in the shadows. I made 4 stations and placed one in each room in an area that my dog could not access (under the kitchen sink, under the bathroom sink, in the corner of my bathroom droom closet, an another in the kitchen in an enclosed pantry) but I wasn't expecting much to change.Within 4 days, the scratching in the walls that kept me up every night was SILENT, I stopped hearing any sounds of scratching in the kitchen, and I haven't seen any signs of mouse activity in or out of my house since. That was 4 months ago. Mice leaves scent trails everywhere that attracts other mice and tells to follow it, so I used a mixture of 75% white vinegar, 25% water with about 20 drops of peppermint essential oil (because it's strong enough to overpower their sensitive sense of smell as well as well as the scent in their urine) and after thuroughly cleaning along the baseboards and under each sink with a strong disinfecting and enzyme cleaner, I sprayed along each baseboard where there had been signs of mouse travel. I reapply the mixture once a week just in case a mouse has snuck in and tried to leave a trail for other mice to follow again. VOILA! NO MORE MICE! My house has finally been rodent free for the last 4 months, and the product that finally made it happen was this JT Eaton apple Flavored bait blocks. And it got rid of all the mice in just a few days. I will make sure I have a bucket of this stuff on hand at all times, just in case these nasty critters ever tried to get the upper hand again.

My recommendation is not to use a mouse poison at all, if you don't have to. Snap traps are far more effective and less likely to kill your pets or wild animals. Use this poison as a last resort only. That being said:I am not a pest control professional, but I maintain 3 houses, 2 of which are vacation homes, deep in the woods. At all 3 places, there were loads of mice. Snap traps are effective, and I still use them at my house, but at the 2 remote homes, this wasn't practical. After lots of research, I landed on using Diphacinone .005% (the poison in this product). I did this because it is a 1st Generation anti-coagulant. The 2nd Gens and neurotoxins used by the professionals will kill your pets if they get into it. And if you catch it in time, it will be a very expensive veterinary bill (if the pet survives). If your pet eats this poison, the treatment is much easier an less expensive: Vitamin K. Another huge benefit is that all the wild animals (like hawks and eagles) that eat the dead mice poisoned by Diphacinone, are less likely to die themselves from the poison.EDIT: I forgot the most important part: DO NOT just scatter these bait blocks around. They must be put inside a bait station, so only small mice and rats can get at them. Pets and other animals will eat this bait if not secured in a child and pet resistant bait station (I use Bell Labs EVO Protecta bait stations).

I live in a rural area and my house is surrounded by woods. I also have a rental property and business that are next to wooded areas, soI go through a lot of bait. Packrats and Field mice are a severe nuisance causing damage to anything with electrical wires (Including my 1960's dozer). This year they have been especially problematic getting into vehicles that are driven daily and parked in the open where there is little to no cover. I have a large dog as well as foxes, coyotes, cats, bobcats, owls, snakes and hawks on my property, all of which will at least occasionally eat mice/ratsI couldn't care less about the cats, snakes and coyotes having secondary positioning, but I do care about my dog and the hawks so avoid bromethalin baits which are neurotoxic with no antidote. This does and is very effective in apple and peanut butter. I saw a rodent nest and put a bait block next to it and within a week the block and the mice were gone. Being that the rodents are outside (thankfully) snap traps and glue traps are not a viable option. It is easy to tell when the bait is gone because I almost immediately see increased sign. Strangely (and thankfully), I have seen little to no impact on the squirrel population, if anything I am seeing more squirrels, likely due to less competition.

So long , good buy, see you never again.