Shake Away 9001020 20oz Rodent Repellant Granules
by Shake Away
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Shake Away 9001020 20oz Rodent Repellant Granules
Customer Review: Works well
Summary: 3 Stars
Mice in my walls/ceiling were keeping me up. Traps(both humane and kill) didn't solve the problem. Neither did sonic things. After the first night of putting this in my ceiling, there was less noise. A few days in, and I haven't heard or seen sign of any mice.
EDIT: Worked for about a week. Then the mice returned: I think they just got used to the smell.
Customer Review: rats
Summary: 3 Stars
Product arrived in the time frame. Seal was broken on one container. Several weeks are required to determine the effectiveness.Customer Review: ok for now
Summary: 3 Stars
well i dont have mice but i am using it to prevent mice so if it works or not is yet to be seen ..... was deliverd on timeCustomer Review: Too little, too late?
Summary: 2 Stars
I live in Hollywood, CA and four months ago I started hearing critters (rats, I've seen them with my own eyes now) in the ceiling of my one-story apartment. There is a 2-foot high crawl space between the ceiling and the actual roof, of the building, and, well, the rats decided it would make a nice home. At night it sounded like they were playing soccer matches up there.
I did not want to endure the smell of dead rats in the walls if they were killed with poison. I just wanted them to move on. Shake-away seemed like the thing to try.
I got on a ladder, packed wad after wad of Shake-Away into a blow-gun-style piece of PVC tubing, threaded it into a hole I created in a vent on the side of the building, put my lips to the tube, and exhaled hard. I could hear the crystals scattering around the two-by-fours and miscellaneous pieces of electrical wiring. I blew and I blew. I did this in two different places of the building until I was sure I had created a wide swath of bobcat scented hell for the rats. I did this with enormous confidence that they would move out. Eventually.
Well, like I said, that was several months ago now. I am prompted to write this because I just heard what sounded like a pair of elephant-sized rats engaged in a sumo contest right above my ceiling fan. There were nights when I was sure they were gone for good. There were others when I figured the sounds I was hearing was just them packing their bags to leave. But they are here, they are still very firmly here, and Shake-Away seems to have done nothing to change that.
Having said all that, and having done more and more research on the stuff since I bought and applied it, it seems that Shake-Away is only effective at preventing rats from moving IN to a potentially habitable location, not on encouraging them to LEAVE one they have already decided to call "Home". Shake-Away, then, is a DETERRENT to a not-yet-existent rat problem not a SOLUTION to a problem that already exists.
SO.... If you can guess in advance exactly where and when a colony of rats will move in to a place that you won't want them, Shake-Away may be able to help you prevent that from happening. But as a tool to get rats out of your home, well. I'd love to finish writing this review but I placed a few bets on tonight's rat-fight and I need to find out if the big dark Norwegian is going to finally trounce the local big blackie and I don't want to miss the beginning of the brawl. Gotta go!
Customer Review: Small Critters Calling My Bluff
Summary: 2 Stars
I have not used this particular product for RODENT control.
I HAVE used the SMALL CRITTER Repellent (same brand) for chipmunks and bunnies etc. That has only been partially effective. It has not dissuaded the critters to move on. They seem to come back after two days and call my bluff. I think it is because we have only lived here 2 years now and they have been "in (under) residence" for a much longer time. I wanted to use a humane type product like this but this one is just too expensive per use and I have not gotten the results I was hoping for. I am down to my last 2 jars and I have already used 4 without success. I won't order it again.
It is a shake product but the consistency of the product is somewhat moist and so it really doesn't like to "shake" out through the holes provided. The larger opening dispenses it too rapidly and one can use up a bottle/jar in a hurry.