Mouse Trap Hood
July 14, 2025
Mouse Trap Hood
STL’s for this Hood are available for purchase from Cults3d.com
This a hood for a snap style mouse trap to keep the mice from just eating the bait without setting off the trap.
This hood was designed around the Topcat brand of snap traps but it will also fit Victor traps.
The hood design is pretty basic…
The Hood blocks the bait from every side but the rear of the trap.
The sloped design of the hood (toward the bait cup) also forces the mouse to press the trigger while trying reach the bait. There is no way to reach the bait without pressing down on the trigger now. Before they could sit off to the side and just lick the bait cup and holes clean without triggering the trap. The hood also makes sure the mouse’s head is in the correct position for a greater chance at a fast clean kill. There’s nothing worse than not finding the trap were you left it because the mouse was not dispatched quickly and allowed to drag the trap away. (although this is not a full proof solution to that problem and that can still happen.)
The hood just snaps firmly onto the traps base and the tabs on the bottom of the hood just align flush with the trigger side of the base…
…this should ensure that the hammer rotates freely without hitting the hood and that the hold down catch bar tip clears the hood opening.
In my initial test it was well proven to work great. I baited two traps side by side… the Victor without a hood was licked clean and the Tomcat with the hood did its job. (Whether it was the same mouse… who knows.) Another bonus is I don’t even have to re-bait the Tomcat trap, just clear it and reset it as the bait cup is still full of peanut butter.
The mice do not go to waste, they are left out in my backyard and the local possum feast on them at night…. that is if the crows don’t take them first.
Here it is mounted to a Victor Trap. (Again you just have to make sure the trigger moves freely and that the catch bar tip clears the hood when tripped.)
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