Kaput Ground Squirrel Bait - Effective Fleas & Squirrel Killer with Diphacinone & Imidacloprid - Targeted Pest Control for Outdoor Use, (25 lbs)

This stuff is amazing! I live on 6 acres and was overrun with ground squirrels. I do not have any other animals so I put the bait in all the squirrel holes and kept replacing the bait as it got eaten. I noticed a difference in activity after 2-3 weeks. I kept putting Kaput in the active holes. It took about 6 weeks before I had no more squirrel activity. I had previously used a squirrel trap and caught over 150 squirrels in 4 years but they stopped going in the trap and just increased in population. I highly recommend this product if you want to eliminate the squirrels on your property. I recommend you use bait stations if you have other animals. FYI this bait does not work on wild rabbits.

How do you get them to eat it? Squirrels walk up to their little water trough to get a drink standing inches away from the bait, get a drink and leave. The bait is in a pile leaning against the outside of the 4 inch tall water pan. I’ll just leave it there and see if they ever change their minds. Opossum didn’t eat any either when it comes at night. Birds all drink from the other side of the 24 inch wide bowl. Have a camera there 7 ft away taking pictures of it. The size of the pile isn’t really changing its size like it was being gone through. I’m really tired of the squirrels damaging my property.

I will repeat what another reviewer wrote, because it exactly captures my experience. " I would say at least a month is required to really understand just how effective this stuff is. I would opt for the 25lb container next time, it goes much faster than you think." I had a major ground squirrel infestation... holes all over the place. I'd pour about half a cup down each hole, and then a week later I'd cover over the holes that were clearly no longer being used, and pour more bait down holes that were still active. It took me most of a 25-pound container to treat about a half acre of heavily-infested territory, but after about 6 weeks there were no remaining active holes. I live in southern Arizona. I figured that our ground squirrels are pretty similar to California ground squirrels, so this product should work here as well as in California. And I was right... it did. I've seen reviews that complained that it didn't work against chipmunks and so on. That is hardly surprising. Different rodents eat different things, and you shouldn't be surprised if a ground squirrel poison does nothing against chipmunks. But in my experience, this product is VERY effective against ground squirrels. One problem worth mentioning is that my 25-pound container was packaged and shipped in a lightweight cardboard box. When it arrived, the box was torn, the lid of the plastic bucket inside had come off, and little red pellets were spilling out of the package. Fortunately, not much product had been lost. I plan to order this again. Next time, I will try to communicate with the shipper in advance, telling them at least to strongly tape the cover of the plastic bucket to the bucket, and either use a stronger box or to reinforce it with a lot of packing tape.

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I had ground squirrels digging under my AC compressor platform next to my house. As other reviews suggested, I place about a quarter cup of this bait down new holes as I found them. It took awhile, but eventually the digging stopped. I cleaned up their mess and there has been no squirrel activity since last summer.

It will take A LOT of poison to kill off ground squirrels. They need to ingest it for several days before it starts to be effective. We went through 3 large buckets in a week in 4 feed stations in 1000 sq. foot area and only noticed a very small decline.

We have a squirrel infestation in our neighborhood. I’ve put this all over my yard and they have been getting into it and eating it. It’s easy to sprinkle in areas that the squirrels usually get into. I have found 1 dead squirrel so far, but they go from yard to yard so I don’t for sure know how effective it is because they could be dying in other yards.

Read before you buy : Squirrels are not interested in this at all . Do not even touch it. The main concern : the birds eat it , so instead of squirrels, you'll poison birds ! Removed it from backyard once realized that. Absolutely worthless item, lost my money for something false advertised.