Fresh Cab Botanical Rodent Repellent - Environmentally Friendly, Keeps Mice Out, 4 Scent Pouches

I’m extremely pleased with Fresh Cab Rodent Repellent. The quality is impressive right from the start—the botanical formula is strong enough to keep rodents away, yet it’s safe for our kids and pets when used as directed. Functionally, it’s been fantastic; I’ve noticed a big reduction in rodent activity in our basement and garage since I started using these pouches, and I love that it works without traps or harsh chemicals. The appearance is convenient and neat—small pouches that are easy to tuck away wherever you need them, without creating a mess or drawing attention. On top of it all, the fresh herbal scent is a huge plus and much better than the typical chemical odor of other products. For the price, I think Fresh Cab offers excellent value for a natural, effective solution. I definitely recommend it for anyone looking for a reliable and safe way to keep their home rodent free!

These work well to keep mice out of our RV and Tractor. We spend $7000 on our tractor where mice chewed all the wires. Now we use these in the tractor and no mice whatsover. Wish we would have known to use these sooner!

I usually get a few kitchen mice come winter, but this past year was especially bad. In the past I was able to deter the little guys with Bounce sheets and rigorous cleaning, but that method had stopped working: every morning from November 2013 until two weeks ago (beginning of April 2014) there were droppings in my pantry and/or on my counter tops regardless of how well I scrubbed them. In a fit of desperation I decided to give Fresh Cab a try, and since putting one pouch under my pantry cabinet and one behind my microwave two weeks ago, nary a mouse turd has been seen. I was honestly shocked at how well and how immediately this stuff seemed to work after the mice had been so persistent for so long, but there's no other explanation. Aside from the packets actually working, the woodsy Fresh Cab smell is also much less weird to have around food/in the kitchen than the heavy Bounce scent was. The smell is also VERY noticeable -- I think I'll be able to tell easily when it's time to replace them, though I still took another reviewer's tip and write the date I opened the pouch on the tag so I could remember when to replace it, which I plan to do regularly. I can only hope it keeps working this well! **UPDATE 1** I finally saw evidence of mice again about four weeks after I initially put down the Fresh Cab pouches. To be fair, I'd noticed that I could no longer smell the pouches by that time -- and as soon as I replaced them, the mice left again. Now I know for sure that each bag lasts just about four weeks before it needs to be replaced. **UPDATE 2** This stuff seriously stops working like it's on a timer: once four weeks have passed since I put down a new pouch, I start seeing droppings again. Still, when this stuff is fresh out of the box, nothing else can touch its efficacy (I had actually switched briefly to using peppermint oil to deter the mice, but it did nothing to keep them away -- if anything it seemed to attract them! They showed up the day I put it down). Fresh Cab remains my go-to, even if it does get a bit pricey to keep stocked.

This stuff works miracles! I have had mice every winter since I bought this home 27 years ago. I tried snap traps. I tried sticky traps. I tried peppermint oil. Nothing worked very well. Couldn't use poison because of my little dog. I saw this product this year, and I thought it was worth a try. I'm telling you they ran for the hills. Not even any signs that they've been walking around. Nothing to clean up. They're just gone! Hallelujah! They say it lasts 30 days, and one review said that that 30 days is the key. He didn't replace in 30 days and they came back. I've had it down 21 days and I couldn't be happier. I'm ordering another batch so my replacements are here when I hit 30 days. Worth every penny.

Bought this to keep mice out of my truck. It works great, smells nice too. Only downside is the potency wears off in a month or so and the mice move back in.

I wanted to wait to write a review to see how well this worked. I bought this after a recommendation from a co-worker and I’m very happy I did. We had a rat problem, since the beginning of the pandemic when my wife began feeding birds and built a perfect environment for them in our backyard complete with a constant food source and a pond. I tried multiple traps, coyote and fox urine, German Shepherds, and shooting them a pellet rifle, removing the food and water source, etc. Non worked for more than a week until I put these little packets out. I put them in the sheds, garage, a dry spot on the deck where the dogs wouldn’t mess with them. We didn’t see a rat again after putting these out! I was shocked. They worked surprisingly well, and they smell good. They wear out after a while, and we eventually had one rat show back up after about 6 months but I just put more out and it’s gone now too. Hopefully this helps someone else who is looking for something new to try.

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 degree Illustrations: 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.

I got these for around my garage and it kept the mice away from my tool boxes a little but it wasn’t enough to repel them out of the garage entirely..