Victor® Catch & Hold™ Mouse Trap

This is my second style of design from Victor. I want to catch the mice humanely and let them go. This design DOES NOT WORK! Both types of Victorian catch and hold traps the mouse comes in, eats the bait, and is able to quite easily get out again. Not sure if it pulls down the ramp or how, but trap filled with mouse droppings, bait gone, no mouse. Total waste of money, and I kept giving it a chance, poorly designed product.

Cheap, thin plastic. Chewed up by mice, lasted three nights. The second mouse chewed up the inside plastic by the clips and hinges. Cool idea, terrible execution. Waste of money.

Nice design as it catches them, but.... that long piece of metal is too thin, it bends too easy and mouse was able to bend and escaped by morning Need a thicker metal. And some reviews might encourage you to have a metal box to prevent chewing it's way out.

I simply would never recommend this product to anyone. I've tested over 100+ traps on mice and this one simply has been one of the worst I have seen..Mice seem to avoid this product even when tested with different baits and locations. On the odd occasion it does catch a mouse the mouse would chew its way out. I bought 3 of the traps to ensure it wasn't faulty traps but still yielded the same results. Now if you are looking for a effective trap I will share you a secret. I do find the classic wooden victor snap trap works very well almost all the time but to solve some of the issues the trap has tuck a little cotton into the baitpad and smear peanut butter into the cotton. Works almost 100% of the time even with the smartest mice. I hope this review is helpful.

Seems like a nice design, but at first use the mouse chewed the plastic that separates the two chambers at the end of the foot pedal and somehow was able to get back out.

The design of this trap would work well if some areas were metal instead of plastic. In the entry area above the tilting ramp there are plastic barriers that are part of the roof design. Once trapped inside, mice chew these mounded plastic roof barriers and when sufficiently reduced, mice consistently escape. If the plastic roof barriers (the middle one in particular) were metal or reinforced with some thin sheet metal, the product would probably work for more than a week, and perhaps function well for years. This product did not undergo proper testing in the new product introduction process and it may now start receiving very unfavorable ratings such as mine.

It worked very well and managed to catch around six mice. About 48 hours after being deployed, lucky mouse number seven chewed through the side tab to escape. The older design was better.

Checked the traps today, they were filled with mouse droppings and no mice! So much for the mouse traps. I've never thought I'd be saying this but the engineers need to perform MORE mouse testing before releasing a product.

Your original Victor Catch and Hold mouse traps worked well and only rarely could a mouse escape from the trap. Recently I ordered more traps, and received the NEW clear topped Catch and Hold traps, and in a very short time a mouse can chew the hard black plastic near the release flap (where they can see daylight coming in around that door) or by the side latches, making these traps unlikely to be “reusable” more than once or twice. With the original smoke colored traps with the sliding lid, I NEVER saw bits of plastic chewed off from inside the trap, and they can easily be used many times. Having a straight head on entry instead of a tunnel with the entry off to the side after entering the tunnel IS an improvement over the original version.

Mice are enough to escape the traps. I have carefully followed the directions for two different models of Victor catch and release mouse traps—mice are able to safely stop by for a snack, leave a turd or more, and leave.