EFA International Mouse and Rat Repellent Spray, 750ml Peppermint Oil Spray, Peppermint Oil Based Rodent Repellent

Where I live in the Highlands of Scotland, rats, mice, shrews are not dirty like their urban cousins. Red squirrels abound and provide much entertainment. I don't like killing, poisoning or using chemicals on animals (my only zero tolerance is targeted at midges, mosquitoes, crocodiles, alligators and scorpions - fortunately the last three don't feature here, although I've had some close encounters with some of them...two scorpions stung me in Panamá, fortunately the translucent ones. A friend had a dark chappie fall off the ceiling onto his testicles, which resulted in an urgent visit to hospital!). I digress. Mouse traps often don't work. I had one crafty critter in the loft, who managed to roll the trap over, so the little door opened. On another occasion, despite taping the trap to the floor, it/she/he gnawed through the tough plastic. I particularly dislike the poison that rodents take back to the nest and poison the family. It's a pretty gruesome death apparently. I think everything on this amazing planet has a right to live, but in this instance I'm a bit of a nimby. Shock horror yesterday when I went to the airing cupboard to get a bath towel. All my towels are in zipped, clear plastic containers, mainly to keep the dust off. The plastic had been chewed open, the towels had multiple large holes in them. I binned them. A few hours later I had reason to open the airing cupboard door and there was a rat staring at me! I've never slammed a door closed so fast. When I had a new central heating system installed years ago, the plinth, which supported the hot water tank had not been sealed properly. I mentioned this to the fitters, but they ignored me. Being a bit of a Destroy-It-Yourself, Laurel & Hardy combined sort of chap, I blocked it off as best I could. I ordered your wonderful PestSpray late last night. It arrived this afternoon. I'd asked others, who'd used PestSpray on a regular basis. Never had a rodent in the home since. The peppermint aroma is pleasant...to us humans. I've already recommended it to friends. Great value. Most highly recommended. Thank you...

This does seem to work as a deterrent but not 100 percent effective

I bought this with high hopes after reading reviews and being recommended it through a forum, to try and deter rats from going on my bird feeders and chewing my chicken coop. I sprayed just over half a bottle all over my feeders (everywhere apart from the bird food!) and over all areas of my chicken house that they’d been chewing on. Within half an hour 2 rats were climbing up the stand of the feeder, eating the food, without a care in the world and overnight an even bigger hole has been chewed. Either I have rats with zero sense of smell or this product just makes no difference.

I think it has deterred the mice and it’s got a nice smell so happy to spray around skirting,etc

The mice’s n rats certainly don’t like it , neither do I , so keeps everyone away ,