Mouse Update: Success!!!!!

Parie went out to the kitchen this morning and the cats seemed very excited/agitated. After feeding them (one handed, with a baby in one arm), she noticed them circling something in the living room. It turned out it was one of the sticky box traps we set around the dishwasher, with one live and very scared and very stuck mouse inside of it. We bid him adieu and now can move on with our lives (and return all the cookbooks to the bookcase).

[UPDATE] Here are a couple of pics of the blockade we created around the dishwasher. If only we'd fashioned the surround around the dishwasher after we had it installed last December, this wouldn't have happened. Oh well. I'm sure we'll get to that project soon.

Anyhoo, the mouse eventually was funneled through that brown box, which had an extremely sticky bottom that trapped him. (Don't worry -- the one in the photo is not the one with the squealing mouse.)