Reviews for Victor® TIN CAT Live Catch Mouse Trap

These traps work well for the first few years, but then, the mechanism wears out or my mice get smarter and learn to escape! We clean them, adjust them, but to no avail! The critters get in, eat the bail and then they are gone! Wish I knew how they do it!

Mice get out easily. When I check the trap all that is left of the sunflower seeds I use for bait is broken shells and the mouse is gone. We tried it to catch mice in my wife's car, when I did have one in the trap and was on my way to release it, it escaped and is now in my truck. Ya got mice? Get a cat, a four legged one.

I’ve had a Tin-Cat live mouse trap since 1985. Tried all the others- don’t bother! This works 99% of the time. Once a very energetic and clever mouse figured how to get out. That;s 1 in 40 years. But it’s an old beat up trap.

How do I keep the F___ing squirrels from opening your trap and stealing the bait!?! Useless! or worse

Bought and set one of these up a few weeks ago. At first I thought I just wasn't attracting any mice to the trap since it was empty every time I checked. After not checking for a week I found the trap full of mouse droppings and not a single mouse. They had just been coming in to snack on my bait and leaving. After inspecting the trap I noticed that one of the trap doors does not close properly and leaves a 1/4 inch gap the mice can just grab onto and pull the door open again. Inexcusable poor manufacturing tolerances and because of the way the stamped pieces are assembled I can not even fix it. $20 for a mouse trap that just feeds the mice.

I set these traps the way you suggested, not using wax paper to put the peanut butter on, but putting the PB directly on the farthest metal part of the trap...... after using for a number of days and trying over and over, I was able to trap a few mice but then again, several times the PB was gone and no mice caught. Design flaw of some kind if the mice can escape after eating the PB on a far wall..... unless the mice and their friends hold down the ramp while others are eating the PB so the eater can exit the ramp. I threw away the receipt as I never thought these wouldn't work, so now I am stuck. A better mouse trap would be nice!

some mice who have escaped them before know how to pull down the inside ramp and exit the same way they came in.

I have been using your Victor tin cat live catch mouse trap for the last six months with excellent results. However, the last month I have noticed the bait has been eaten. There are mouse droppings in the trap, but no mouse. I decided to put a camera to observe what was going on, what I saw was the mouse entering the trap eating the bait going back to the same way that they entered and walking out somehow. As they entered the entrance exit, I could hear them rattling around inside as if they were pulling down the step, however I could not observe it with the camera because this area is closed , I hope you can make some improvement if you do the same thing I did by putting a camera and observing them. Hopefully your engineers can figure out how they are getting out.

I haven’t had it long enough to see. But my little mouse keeps running around and hiding so far. My comment is, if we aren’t supposed to have hand scent on the trap, it would be great if the company changed the packaging so it covered the whole trap so you don’t touch it by accident until you’re home and able to put gloves on. I guess if I don’t catch him I’ll try washing my hand scent off the trap. He’s so tiny I’m not sure he weighs enough to set the enclosure.

I've had one of these for years and they are wonderful! I relocated forty mice one Fall and have only had one or two a year since in my 160 year old house. I just recommended this to a friend who doesn't want to kill mice.