Catching Mice...!!

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I have two pet mice- we have a mouse cage (a special cage with smaller bars to stop them sqeezing through- apparently...) but yesterday they knocked their cage off a table overnight and escaped. Luckily one of them came wandering out quite easily and we caught him very quickly. The other one was harder to find, we knew where he was, but the problem was, where he had gotten himself was in the wall cavity!!!! After 3 hours, and a lot of destruction of the house pulling things apart, we got him and put him back in the cage. We put them back in their normal place which is our bedroom and left them to it. They had never escaped before, and the only reason they had gotten out this time was because the cage had fallen apart when it fell... BUT on going to bed, a mouse ran out from under my bed...one of my pet mice!!!! I grabbed him and put him back in the cage and then quickly found his friend who had also gotten out! I put their cage into a cardboard box and put the box in the bath! Thinking there was NO WAY they could get out of the cage then out of the box AND out of the bath, at most i expected to come down and find them in the bath (no water of course!), but again this mornign I came down and found a mouse running around the floor of the bathroom (luckily I had filled up any holes around the bath with newspaper so there wasn't really anywhere for them to go. And again I caught him very quickly- the other hadn't gotten out. What I want to ask is does anybody have any ideas of 1) how to keep them in their cage!!! I have no idea where they are escaping from! The cage must have gotten damaged in the fall yesterday somehow and they can now sqeeze through the cage bars. and 2) if they DO escape again...which is very likely!!! How do I catch them!? yesterday I was VERY lucky to find the one who got into the wall. I didn't think we would find him as we once lost a hamster who got into the walls in our old home and he never reappeared. Any ideas anyone!!!!