This product is a unique masterpiece designed to scare away mice and other animals. Made of gray rubber, I don’t exactly when it was made, but I know that it is over 70 years old. It was my father‘s. And he was born in the 1930s it would be perfect to put two tear small animals like mice and ground squirrels and other pest that you don’t want around your garden or home flowers porch, etc. it really does work . the one on the market these days don’t have the unique attributes of this one