Fresh Cab Rodent Repellent - Botanical Pest Control for Indoor Use - Safe for Kids & Pets When Used As Directed - Made with Plant Fibers, Balsam Fir Essential Oil & Fragrance - 4-Pack

I bought these because they recently knocked a house down next door to me and I have seen one mouse so far. I saw this was recommended on Bob villas website and decided to give it a try. I have them placed strategically around my house and have only seen one mouse that came out of hiding and started spinning around in circles and was looking for a way out. Haven’t seen any rodents or droppings since. It’s been about 2 weeks now. Great product and has a great scent. Smells like Christmas trees

We use this around our cars to keep mice from making their homes in our vehicle and causing damage.We live in an agricultural area where mice are a constant presence. But when they started chewing the fuel lines in our truck (well over $1,000 in repairs, multiple times), we needed to find some way to keep them out for good.We place one of these in the engine compartment, and one in the bed of the truck, and it seems to have done the trick. We remove them when driving and place them again when parked. They need to be replaced every few months, but it's worthwhile to keep them out of our vehicles.These definitely have a smell. It's not unpleasant, but it's strong. You probably wouldn't want to place it in your kitchen or inside your home. But for outdoor areas or vehicles, it's perfect. And for us, it has worked very well!!

Has the unique, pleasant odor for the shed.

Purchasing this was the best thing I ever did. It saves the rats from chewing up my wires in my car. I just put 2 of them underneath the hood of my car for about a couple months and it protects my engine, Wires, very good product.

These work great! We left one packet at our cabin over the winter and finally had no bugs or mice when we opened it up on the spring! We’re putting one in the garage and basement now too.

To find out whether this product repels mice, I ran a controlled experiment, which I'll describe here.Methodology:Two identical cardboard boxes, 7 x 10 x 5 inches, were prepared. These were closed at the top and bottom and had a triangular opening on one side near the bottom. A stamp pad was placed at this entrance to each box, so that any mouse entering the box would have to walk over the stamp pad, thus getting its feet inky. A sheet of paper was placed on the bottom of the box, and any mouse exploring the interior of the box would leave its inky footprints on this paper. One of these Fresh Cab repellent packets was hung inside one of the boxes. No bait was put inside the boxes, out of concern that the smell of the Fresh Cab packet might reduce the traffic of mice simply by masking the smell of the bait. Thus the boxes were just a dark, enclosed space of the sort that mice are prone to investigate.Over the course of several days, the boxes were alternated every 24 hours; the "active" box being put in the same place on the floor of a crawlspace under my house, while the "inactive" box was removed to a separate area and sealed so that no mice could enter it. through this methodology, the comparative density of mouse footprints on the sheets of paper placed on the bottom of the two boxes gives an indication of how effectively the Fresh Cab packet kept mice from exploring the box.Results:As you can see in the photos that accompany this review, there is slightly less mouse-traffic in the box with the Fresh Cab packet, but only slightly. It's clear that the product did not prevent mice from entering and exploring the box, and that it did not repel mice to any meaningful degreeIllustrations:Figure 1 shows the mouse tracks from the box with the Fresh Cab packet.Figure 2 shows the mouse tracks from the box without the Fresh Cab packet.Figure 3 shows the experimental setup for the box with the Fresh Cab, with the top of the box open. Note the stamp pad at bottom and the Fresh Cab packet hanging in the upper right corner of the box. The box is shown open here, but was closed for the experiment to contain and concentrate the smell of the repellent and also to make the box an inviting area for mice to explore.Additional Note:I've read that there are some indications that scented products like this one can discourage mice from _nesting_ in a treated area. So if you have a problem with mice nesting in a certain spot (the engine compartment of a car, for example), this product might work for preventing that. But for simply repelling mice, for keeping them from doing all the destructive, annoying, and unsanitary things they do when not in their nests, this experiment clearly shows that this product does not work.

It was at our mountain cabin, but the mice seemed to chew through the packets and were not deterred by them. I think you need to place them in a small contained area in a large room. It was not as effective.

Seems to work well; I don't find evidence of rodents around the places these packets are kept. And the scent of the packets is far more preferable than other odors in these areas.