The Big Cheese Rat & Mouse Bait Station Compact, Tamper-Resistant Bait Station with Lockable Lid Indoor and Outdoor Use, Black

We live in a semi rural area and for the first time in the 8 years that we‘ve lived here, our entire neighbourhood was under siege by rats. We were hopeful when we bought the bait box and bait but weren’t expecting miracles in the scheme of things.As directed we placed the bait in the box... super easy... locked it with the key and placed it behind a super heavy planter where our 2 dogs couldn’t get near to it.A week later we took a look and were disappointed to see the bait blocks were untouched... BUT... I did some research on rats and discovered that they are creatures of habit and familiarity, who don’t like change. So we decided to leave the box in situe and leave well alone for the rats to become used to it. We’d noticed in the meantime that we were seeing a decline in the number of critters in our garden. When we rechecked the bait box it was totally empty! We put the remainder of the bait in the box... again left well alone for 3 weeks... rechecked and again the box was empty!We are thankful to have a happy ending to our problem... as we have now been rat free for a month... woohoo!!! There are no signs around the garden such as rat poop or indentations in my planters as there was before so I’m definite that we are all clear. I am so thankful for this product and can’t recommend it enough! Needless to say I have now purchased more bait... just in case they return.

Easy to set up and lock. Rats don't seem to like the block bait. took a long time to disappear.

Product seems great, but the size of the rat in my garden looks too big to fit in the mouse/rat hole?! 😶The rat is moving and tossing the box, so have weighed it down.I’ll check for bite marks inside next week …

Does as illustrated,easy to assemble.

Small , good to have bit bigger sizeIt's been more than week but rats are roaming as usual , hope it works soon

A bait box like this is the obvious way to get rid of rats, who come in, find the poison bait, and keep coming back for more, eventually - yes, horribly, but they are a pest really - dying, when their nest-mates and family, being clean-habited creatures, dispose of their colleague by eating him/her and eventually destroying the colony.That's the plan anyway. I am an active gardener with a bird and hedgehog friendly garden, so traps or poison pellets and suchlike are not in anyway an option - my garden is bordered by five others, including old-people's bungalows (mostly untended) and some old-people's flats (also untended) , hence we occasionally get a little brown problem.I sited the box behind a shed, on a shared-garden border where they were bound to find it, which they did, I looked a week later to find some bait gone, re-filled it (using gloves etc) and next week much more was gone, then next week less, and the week following it was barely nibbled. A slight death smell was on the air this final week from near the flats. This type of product works - sure, it's a nasty thing to do to any creature, but rats are not nice things to have in your garden or around your house at all. This item worked well for our garden, and effectively sorted out a problem for about a dozen other residents nearby who have no knowledge of my action and have therefore not thanked me!

Used as a precaution as I had rats living at the bottom of my composter, which has since been removed. Good quality and easy to put bait in. Very safe and bait is inside but best not to let children play with it as it is not a toy. Good value for money.

After seeing a rat on my doorstep CCTV I bought one of these stations and loaded it up with rat poison.Monitoring my CCTV daily I realised that the rat must have been tipped off and never did come back to try my special dish. A bit disappointed really :(