Well, turns out if I want Mouse Maker I have to drive over an hour to get to it. I just finished spending over an hour with my entire household going through the entire downstairs. We pulled the bottles out of the bar, the books out of the bookshelves, the socks out of the basket in the laundry room, etc. We looked under and behind the washer, dryer, and water heater, and behind the furnace. We looked in the rafters as far as we could with a stepstool or climbing on appliances. We pulled out the stereo, tv, vcr, dvd, guitar case, sofa, loveseat, etc., and patted the bottoms of the sofa, loveseat, and chaise. I disassembled my desk, dumped out the hampers and went through the clothes, opened the backgammon case, looked through the trash cans. And yes, we did go through the crawl space and checked every box in it. Basically, if it could be gone through or reached by humans of our heights and widths, we covered it. If the snake is still in here, he is in a wall, the rafters behind the furnace, or the insulation in the crawl space.

I give up. I am throwing in the towel. I will keep a couple of warm spots and check them multiple times a day and I will leave the mouse in the warm hide for another night and keep the dogs and cats out of the room, but he's going to have to come back voluntarily at this point. I guess I need to go ahead and work out a name for the clutchmate he left behind.