Reviews for Victor® Catch & Hold™ Mouse Trap

Severely injured the mouse we were trying to catch humanely and release. The mouse was somehow trapped underneath the metal that is meant to trap the mouse inside the box; the mouse was found moving underneath the door, stuck, but survived. I feel so terrible knowing our intent was to release the mouse unharmed, back into nature, but was instead stuck and smashed underneath a metal panel until we check for it the next morning. The mouse survived and is now outside, but obviously frightened and somewhat injured.

Worked well. Caught the mouse with peanut butter and dry cat food bait. I recommend it for an easy, no-fuss way to get rid of 1 or 2 mice.

I'm really shocked at the low rating for this trap on Home Depot.com and on the Victor website. This is the best trap I ever purchased and worked like a charm, getting rid of the mouse in a couple of days. I had tried both snap traps and glue traps for weeks. This incredibly evasive and clever mouse had been dodging both sets of traps with no issue. Further, the mouse was actually eating the bait off the snap trap without setting the trap off. I bought this Victor trap and in two days the mouse was caught. I just put a glob of peanut butter inside the trap on the little metal ramp and the mouse just walked on in and got caught. I then released the mouse humanely into the brush, because I don't want to inflict animal death or cruelty if I can avoid it. This will be the only trap I buy moving forward for any pest control issues. One other thing, Home Depot has a head to head comparison between this trap and the Tomcat sticky traps and under the heading "Non-Toxic", this product has an X and the Tomcat product has a check mark. Home Depot got it backwards, because there's absolutely no Toxic component to this product. I would recommend reaching out to Home Depot to change this since toxicity might be a concern for some consumers. Thanks to Victor for producing an awesome product.

We have a mouse in our office. We've used kill traps in the past, but wanted to try out a more humane approach. We bought 3 of these traps and our mouse has chewed through 2 so far! I am 100% confident that we've used the traps correctly. Based on other reviews, this is a material issue and not a user issue. The mouse chewed through the top clear plastic piece on the 1st trap and the black plastic along the side by the clip on the 2nd trap. We will be trying a metal trap next.

Just last night at 1130 pm I set 3 traps, when checked at 1130 am all three traps were empty with bait gone and all three were chewed through in exactly the same place. Either my mice are able to communicate amongst themselves with precise instructions in escape or you have a design issue!

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.