Another House Guest… uninvited

When we came back from our most recent visit to the US in May, we were greeted by a small house guest. You see the day we left, the rainy season began in Guatemala—and we left our house vacant for a week and a half… Enough time for our little guest to visit all the rooms and leave surprises on all our clothing and in ALL our cupboards… but the mouse did not open any of the food.
We did not notice right away that we had a guest but that first night back I found mouse poop in our dish drainer and later on Horacio saw it run down the hallway… so we called Beatriz to come and help. The next day Diego and Karen Sofia were supposed to come to stay with us and if they knew about the other houseguest… they would not have set foot in our house!
Beatriz, Marco Andre and Horacio together cornered the mouse in the kitchen with their brooms… but it would not come out of the sink cabinet to get squashed. We had the brilliant idea of bringing in the garden hose in order to flush it out with water.
Now before you think this was really foolish of us, please note that we have ceramic tile floor.
As water and dust bunnies were coming out from behind the kitchen cabinet, all we achieved was giving the mouse a bath!