Tamper-resistant bait station

A bait station, comprising:

• a plastic container having a side opening sized to permit a target rodent to enter and exit and preventing an animal larger than the target rodent from entering, and an internal chamber for storing a bait together with a pesticide;
• a lid united with the container by a flexible plastic hinge running along a top rear edge of the container on a side wall thereof, which lid can be opened to permit direct access to the internal chamber;
• three manually-releasable locking mechanisms capable of securing the lid to the container, which mechanisms comprises catches of the type that must be simultaneously actuated in order to release the lid from the container, and which catches are spaced from each other by a distance sufficient to prevent a child from opening any two of the catches with one hand and the third with the other, while allowing an adult to do so, each catch comprising a resilient barbed prong formed on one of the lid and a side wall of the container, and a slot formed in the other of the lid and a side wall of the container, the barbed prong catching on the underside of the associated slot when inserted through the slot and being releasable from the slot by pressing on the prong while lifting the lid, and each slot and barbed prong are disposed on mating exterior lateral peripheral flanges of the container and lid, and
• wherein the container, lid, hinge, and catches are integrally molded from a resilient plastic.