No longer AWOL
We caught the mouse! It was sitting in the kitchen nibbling on something, so Dion snuck up on it with a box and, err, boxed it in. We slipped my cutting mat under the box, lifted the whole thing up, and Dion said, "We can take the box off now. The mouse is scared of heights."
"It's scared of heights?" I repeated, incredulous.
"Yeah, it won't jump off."
"You're SURE it won't jump off?"
"Sure. I can catch it."
"Well, if it runs off again, you're going to have to catch it, Dion!"
"Don't worry. Here, let me just lift the box."
The long & short of it is that we got the mouse safely back in the cage. Phew :D