Neogen Ramik Green Fish Flavored Weather Resistant Rodenticide Nuggets, 4 lb bag (00615)

I started hearing that clawing, shuffling, "rearranging furniture" sound that no homeowner wants to hear in the ceiling above my office in between the two floors about 3 weeks ago. In the past, I was in pest control, and I knew it wasn't going to go away- but I hoped for about a week, hearing it every afternoon when I would get home from work. Knowing that rats have to move outside for food and water, I knew the most likely ingress and egress were through the weep holes in the base of my brick exterior. Rats the size of kittens can compress their skeletons and pass through a hole the width of a #2 pencil, so don't ignore even the smallest crevices in your exterior walls as potential entry points. So, I gave these a shot, and stuffed a few pieces in each weep hole on that side of the house and a few loose along the ground behind hedges my dog could not get to...after all, she is pretty much a big rat. Day one, still hearing my unwanted guest. Same on day two and three..then, on the fourth day...nothing...and the fifth, sixth and seventh.. I was cautiously optimistic. Then today...day 8... the smell. I know it all to well. The hope is that the rat(s) will die outside the home, but that is pretty rare as they spend more time inside than out. Bottom line, this did what it said it would do. My only complaint, not worthy of pulling a star, is apparently it can not be sold in smaller than 4lb bags- I am guessing some kind of regulation, not the manufacturers fault. If I thought I would ever use 4 lbs of this, I would move out of my home and let the rats have it- I only used a few ounces. I mean there is probably 500 pellets in the bag and I only used about 15. I'll live with the smell, esp since I am somewhat nose blind having worked in the pet loss industry for a decade. And, it is better than the alternative of having a rat family do thousands of dollars in damage or paying a pest professional hundreds (and probably dealing with the smell). The line the PCPs like to use is "the poison makes them thirsty, so they go out of the house and die"... Its a half truth at best. The traps they use outside to avoid them dying in the home work great for mice, but most rats are too smart to enter them for the bait, so if you know you are dealing with rats, and not mice, then loose pellets are the best chance in my opinion and just be ready to deal with the smell for a while.

We had a major problem with squirrels hiding in the engine block of our cars. I did not want to hurt the squirrels, but after $1500 in damage, I was done. I put out 15 pellets in a little pile in the flower bed next to the drive way. The next day, ALL the pellets were gone. We still kept seeing squirrels so put some more next to the flower bed. The pellets are small enough that the squirrels stuff their cheeks with them and take them away. Finally our squirrel problem is done. Be advised that this product attracts the animals to take the poison, so you do not want to put it IN your car or engine block, just near the car so they take the bait and bail. I still see squirrels down the street, but they avoid our property now, which is how I want it. Excellent product. be advised, dogs are attracted to the fish smell, so put it somewhere pets are not permitted.

Works but for me it took a little over 3.5 months to see results. Purchased in March and finally saw 6 large field rats around my shed and chicken coop dead. Poison seen eating through their stomachs. Overall it works just the wait made it seem like it wasn’t working.

I’ve used this product now on two different occasions and it works with time. Each time I have needed it, it has taken about 10 days for results, so be patient if it isn’t working right away. I don’t know if the mice just have to eat so much of this stuff for it to work, or if they store it away and eat it later; but it will work with time. When needed I put out a couple of pellets each night around the mouse holes until they eventually stop taking them. When they stop taking the pellets I then fill in the mouse holes with dirt, and after a few days of no new holes in the area I can confirm the mice are gone.

I rarely low-rate stuff. This time though an urgent need (to get rid of the pests) clashed with a real disappointment. We got a bag of poison a month ago. One star because the rats were crazy about those green balls and the trays with those had to be refilled every couple of days. These are packrats, rodents that I believe had to be affected by the poison like others. Yes I'm aware they store a lot of food but they do have to eat in the meantime, don't they? So the five days had passed and we tried to be patient... meaning lathering all the corners with undiluted peppermint oil and occasionally spraying it in the face of the pests that kept growing bolder and sometimes would run straight at us. The rat trap didn't work either. The beasts were too fast to just hit with a poker... it went on and on. Seems like there were only two of them but trust me they can ruin a whole household. One evening I was chasing one of them with the spray bottle. It jumped into the speaker, and my partner grabbed some notebooks to block two holes in it. We carried the whole thing outside and put rocks on top of those. After a week the scratching was over and he threw the dead thing out. At this point I don't give a rat's rear about any "humane" way to get rid of them. Because the second rat is still there, up until this day, causing trouble :( The bag of poison is long gone and the rat is still alive. How many bags will it take to kill just one? I don't know where the exact glitch is. I was already feeling a tad anxious when other reviewers warned about the dreaded five days before the poison kicks in. But a whole month and no result is truly frustrating. There aren't many pests, just these two. I don't want this place to be in shambles because of the one stupid packrat left which no one is able to destroy. Patience doesn't feel appropriate. Ick.

Glad to find this on here. I put it on my subscribe and save to get a discount. Rats, mice and voles think this is candy.......

Update: The ramik green does kill everything, it just takes up to 5 days to kill the whole nest. They take it back, share it and die. There have been no more mice in the house. In the garage, I guess new ones enter randomly and that is when the stuff I have out disappears. So I have to be watchful and add more. I have also noticed that a few of my frequent visitor foxes have disappeared. I am not sure if the voles are going outside to die and are eaten, but I suspect that is the case. I wish I knew how to avoid it. I did find several stashes of the pellets in different places in the garage this summer while cleaning out. Original: Not sure what to think. I have been very anti poison because of all the wild animals. I have tried everything. My garage is overrun. Snap traps, peppermint oil, ramp/bucket traps. The ramp bucket was the most effective for regular mice and even caught a rat. But not the voles. I kept seeing voles. I finally gave up and bought a 4 lb bag of Ramik Green when I could hear them running around the garage and smell them. I started putting out the pellets in several locations in the garage and they were disappearing. Within a week, the constant sound of them running around stopped. And the smell started going away. Eventually, the bait stopped disappearing. But if I stood there long enough, I would hear something running by somewhere. So I decided that they learned to stay away from it. Still, there was clearly less of them. We only found two dead mice though. A few days ago, I noticed mouse activity for the first time in the house Itself. It was in a cabinet in the kitchen with access from under the cabinets and no way to block it off. I put a bowl of the pellets in the corner of the cabinet and every night since (night 5), about 7 pellets disappear. I have no clue if I am just feeding the mouse, or if it will eventually kill the whole nest. Wherever the nest is. Today, I walked into the garage and all the pellets I had out, even the ones that have not been touched in weeks, were gone. I was shocked, but put out a lot more. When I came back 8 hours later, once again, every pellet was gone. I was freaked out, so dumped a whole lot more. At this point, my 4 lb bag has just a few pellets left. Then, I stood there and watched. One after another, fat meadow voles were running out and grabbing the pellets. Where did they come from so suddenly??? They are clearly not afraid of me. I am wondering if one came in, scouted out the place and brought in its whole family. Is this stuff now attracting voles from the whole neighborhood? So, I am not sure what to think. I know the problem got smaller over the last month, but just exploded again. I am hoping these creatures are dying and NOT going back outside and poisoning the wild life. I wish I knew what was actually happening. I have a second bag ready to go, but these voles are really fat. Are they immune to this stuff? Do I have an endless stream of voles coming in from outside? The mouse in the kitchen does not seem to be slowing down either.

Rats love this stuff. I like it because the active ingredient is an anticoagulant, Diphacinone, which is far, far less toxic to dogs and cats than rats, and the antidote is Vitamin K, which all vets stay stocked up on. Other rat poisons contain Bromethalin, which is much more dangerous to dogs and cats—don’t take my word about the antidote for Bromethalin—look this one up yourself. So why would anybody use Bromethalin? You get kills after one feeding, and quicker kills. Blood anticoagulants like warfarin and Diphacinone are much slower and might require two feedings. I use Diphacinone because I had much rather take my dog to the vet than use Bromethalin get out the shovel and have a backyard burial due to my stupidity. One time I thought my dog had consumed some rat poison—I was in a panic attack until I discovered the poison was warfarin. I knew I had 48 hours to get to the vet. had used Bromethalin. But as it turned out, I had forgotten that I had moved the poison to a safe spot, but after that happened, nothing but blood anticoagulants for me. Ramik kills them dead right away, the entire family. This is not necessary but I like to drop a few drops of cod liver oil on the Ramik so the little <expletive deleted> will smell is easier. If it is one thing I can’t stand it’s a rat. I despise rats. I have studied rats and I have used most every rat poison on the market—as well as many that are now considered too dangerous to be on the market— and nothing tops Ramik. There are brands that match Ramik, but nothing tops it. You will not go wrong with this one. I have found that Ramik is not water resistant. If you put it outside where it could get wet, I recommend putting it in a sealed plastic baggie. The rats will chew right through that baggie when they find it, and they will find it.