Victor® Catch & Hold™ Mouse Trap

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.

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.