My cat, Sheru, has escaped to the feline harem known as the world outside as of last night. He's shown up after an entire weekend before though, panting and wide-eyed, so there's not an immediate cause for concern yet. Mostly, he finds his way back when he gets hungry enough, but I suspect the morons hammering away on reconstruction of the water tank upstairs might have scared him off. The search continues. More later.

Update: After several fruitless attempts to find one cat hiding somewhere in or about several hundred buildings, we gave up and settled back to wait for him to come home himself. Around midnight (now), he was spotted in a neighbour's garden by another neighbour and led us on a merry chase before allowing us to approach and grab him while rolling around one last time in the dirt. Cat's home, yay! :)