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

We have used this product in our lake cabin for about 3 years, and it has kept the rodents out, even during the winter when we close up the cabin. Plus, it makes the cabin smell so wonderful!

I have bought the fresh cab rodent repellent several times, and it seems to work. My garage doors don’t seal, so rodents can enter, and then snakes enter. Yikes! The smell of the pine is the repellent the mice are gone. The pine scent is great for a garage. You might like this product if you have rodent problems in a garage or other outbuilding.

‘hope ya’ll join me for this li’l tune i made up on me gui-tar in honor o’ fresh cab…

‘no, they ain’t a-payin’ me to write this stuff, i jist know a product deservin’ o’ me time when me finds it, that be all. This little ditty be about them rats that chew up everything…well, everything except ethyl’s rat poison…heh heh… In case you all was a-wonderin’, ethyl’s a chem’cal comp’ny…i ain’t a-pickin’ on her…i mean, them…

‘anyway…about ’em mice, and rats, and possums, and skunks, all them vermin that come ’round this this time a year and, how do they sez it, find lod-gin’ — heh heh — yeah, ya’ll gonna like this one. Finally one ain’t about lovin’ and leavin’, it just be just about the leavin’ i guess…heh heh…

[sung fast paced, like a shooed rat — as in ‘shooed away,’ not shoed like a horse.] [sustained holds on all lyric beats shown outside parentheses. Shouts in all caps.]

i’ve……….tried………
(live) catch / (and) dead catch
(and the) sometimes-you-get-’em- / -sometimes-(ya-don’t)
traps
(but the) best traps / (i) e-ver —
(’til now) ne-ver — / (did) see —
(is the) rat – traps / i don’t need no more –
’cause the rats don’t come around me!
‘sing with me now!’
(but the) best thing / (i) e-ver
(’til now) ne-ver / (did) see
(be) them rat traps / i – don’ – need – no – more
(’cause the) — rats — don’ — come — ‘roun’ — meeeee….!!!
‘yeeeeeh-haw!’
‘ya’ll thinkin’ it’s over? Heh heh…you just ’bout gonna miss ma fav’rite part o’ the story!’

(but the) best — thing — / i-ever
(’til now) — ne-ver — / (did) s….e….e…
Be them rat traps / i — don’t — need – no — m…o…r…e…
’cause the rats don’ come ‘roun’ me.
Don’t got to – – – move – – – to – – – bev…er…ly……..!

‘……uh….now what happened to my hi’ dee string gui-tar…them vermin done got into my gui-tar case befure i got me order of fresh cab in there for spring…flea-bitten varmits…gotta order my fresh cab in march next year. Dad gummed global warmin’, next year it’ll prolly be febr-ary ‘en ’em rats all ready git on the run agin’….maybe i otter jist move out there to south’rn cali this here fall, gits away from it all, what ya’ll think!? Heh heh, yeah, rat! I mean right!

Thank ya’ll!!!!! Love ya’ll!!!! Ya’ll go git ya’ll yeselves some fresh cab, all rite’y? Them rats gonna be a-leavin’ my garage ’cause i got me fresh cab, and i don’ need but a bag er two of fresh cab to cov’r my hole ga-rage, and they a-comin’ to ya’lls ga-rage, don’ say i di’nt warn ya’ll!

Ain’t no poisons or nuttin’ in it, just the li’l cedar smell in fresh cab ‘ill keep them varmints away! Smells good, ‘specially when the weather warm up and drive them pung’nt smells into the back country aire! An’ ethyl, too, it’ll keep her away, too, heh heh! No need for ‘er. Ya’ll been great, and i know i been grate — ha ha ha, thank ya’ll!!!

I use these on my rv during the winter storage months. No mice evidence in camper in the spring and the camper smells really nice.

I like the scent and i have no more mice. I do replace them every 30-45 days.

It seems to work, but not sure how long will it last. If it only lasts a month or so, then it could be ver expensive to maintain the effectiveness.

Love the product itself but the box was crushed by the carrier. Fortunately, none of the bags broke.

While staying in a rural rv campground in northern ca we needed something to keep the ground squirrels from getting into our wiring on the rv or our truck. This is a known problem in san benito rv resort. As we were camping we created a perimeter around our campsite and watched the squirrels going in and out of the other rv around us. We were there for several weeks and didn’t have any problems. Other campers were complaining about the issue.

It doesn’t do what it says
repellent mice
i don’t know why people are saying this works when it doesn’t

This product smells good and helps repel mice.

I’ve used this product in my barn and garage over the years. It helps, i think. At times the mice do open the bag once the scent has dissipated and spread it all over.
I also use peppermint spray as well as baits in these locations. I will continue to use to keep the surplus mouse winter population down this winter.

For those of you who dont like rodents but dont want to kill them, this is perfect. I also use them in my camper and it really smells like forest

I believe they are a whole in the bag so don’t know if it works

This is an excellent, all natural mouse deterant.
Put the bags where you have seen mouse activity.

It worked. It was not free

I doubt much of anything is perfect as rodents are sneaky little buggers. The people who own our rv prior to us used it so i bought it, too. It takes a day or two for the pungency to wear off. Our dog is a great mouser/ratter so she lays in wait and catches whoever sneaks through. Gotcha!

This product does work when used inside of cars, trucks, tractors. We use it at the farm and in the shop every fall/winter. If it is placed inside the vehicle and changed out every 45 days or so it will keep the mice out. For pickups i use one on each side for single cabs and one each in the front and back on dual cabs. I have used it under the hood but i am not sure the benefit for me. Most of my stuff is older and much simpler with the older wire sheathing that at least the mice around the farm seem to leave alone. We have a lot of old equipment and the mice seem to have left the wiring alone so far and several of our trucks sit from november to april. The limitation is that you have to change the bags out often. It also does nothing to deter raccoons and larger pests (though it does not claim to either, they get live trapped). Not sure about rats; we use bait blocks for them. So depending upon your situation this product can be part of a pest solution but perhaps not the entire solution. We use a multi tier approach that mostly works for us.

I really loved the idea, and the smell was great, but alas, it doesn’t last very long. Still, maybe in a smaller area it would have worked better, i would have to have about 20 of these packets to make a lasting change here.

I have pet parrots and a mouse problem. These things are probably related, but makes dealing with the mice difficult because 1: i don’t like inhumane traps and poisons and 2: most of the remaining options for dealing with mice are potentially hazardous to sensitive birdie lungs and curious beaks.

After a great deal of research and personal angst over whether peppermint oil as a repellent would be problematic for the birds (there’s wide disagreement), i ordered this stuff. The company owners apparently own parrots themselves and vouch for its safety around them, so i figured it was the best option.

It smells strong. This stuff arrived two days ago and i could smell it through the shipping box, which contained the product box which contained the products which were wrapped in individual plastic bags. I read the instructions, which said ‘for use in non-living spaces.’ awkward. Figuring i was out of better options, i opened a satchel.

The active ingredient, it turns out, is balsam fir oil. I read that on the box, but it would have been obvious anyway since my house instantly smelled like i’d stuffed my face into a christmas tree. The smell was so strong that it gave me a bit of a headache till my sense of smell adjusted, and i was worried about the reaction from my birds as well as my roommate, whose hayfever is triggered by evergreens.

So i put two satchels down, some distance away from the parrots’ cage, and observed them closely (one might say neurotically) for the next hour, moving the satchels gradually closer, to see if they showed any adverse reactions like labored breathing. One of them sneezed three times, and at about five feet away, they did seem to be breathing a bit harder, so i rearranged the space some in order to keep their cage a bit further away from the mouse emergence point (this was just as well, since their new location is easier to clean around–another important step in resolving a mouse infestation). After some further observation, their respiration seemed to have returned to normal, so it looks like we have a workable arrangement, though i have been keeping a mindful eye on them for the past two days since, just in case.

If you are a parrot-owner, or indeed any kind of pet owner, i recommend this observational step, because while this stuff may not be toxic to most animals, individuals can have allergies just like humans do.

Roommate was pleasantly surprised to find she had no adverse reaction besides the same adaptation-period headache i did. The mice, however, are very displeased. After i put the satchels down, i heard actual tiny squeaks of outrage as they encountered the scent, and in the two days since then, i have seen no further sign of mouse spoor. So far, it seems to be a happy ending.

Fingers crossed for the sake of the mice as well as me, since the apartment complex has laid down glue traps for them and i shudder to think.

We opened our camper and found lots of evidence of critters! Heard about fc and decided to try it just in case critters are trying to be permanent residence. We won’t know if it really repel critters in our camper until spring 2023.