Rodent Repellency, A Quantitative Method for Evaluating Chemicals as Rodent Repellents on Packaging Materials

Efficacy of repellent-treated structural barriers for Richardson’s ground squirrels (Urocitellus richardsonii (Sabine)) and house mice (Mus musculus L.)

“…Previous studies conducted with rats exposed many test subjects to weeks of intensive barrier defeat training to ensure equal performance among test subjects and even removed animals from testing for failure to perform (Tigner and Besser, 1962). Previous examples of barrier testing also routinely utilized some form of starvation or food limitation to motivate test subjects to defeat the barrier to access either a maintenance diet or an enrichment food (e.g.…”

“…This effect was especially pronounced in the house mice testing where individual mice defeated the 50% burlap barrier only 9 times out of 44 tries. Previous testing with house mice dissolved candidate repellents in a solvent then soaked burlap bags in the solution to ensure uniform distribution of the repellent treatment (Tigner and Besser, 1962). Barrier testing conducted with paperboard, instead of burlap, had to be coated on both sides to ensure a rat's tongue would come in contact with the repellent (Weeks, 1959).…”

Liposomal Microencapsulation of Rodent-repelling Agents onto Jute Burlaps: Assessment of Cytotoxicity and Rat Behavioral Test

“…However, Tigner et al suggested an idea for animal cage; therefore, a modified cage design was created as illustrated in Fig. 1 (Tigner and Besser, 1962).…”

Agricultural and Biocidal Applications of Organometallics

“…Rodent repellents. Screening experiments have demonstrated promising activity of organotin compounds as rodent repellents, and Tigner and Besser (1962) reported that tributyltin chloride was among the most effective repellents for commensal rodents. However, owing to the rather special nature of this application little developmental work has been done with organotins as rodent repellents.…”