He had the tremendous luck to fall onto the grapes netting my downstairs neighbor has up. He said he suspected that Skatia had jumped, but that's so far fetched as to be utterly ridiculous. have you ever seen an old ferret move? Jumping is entirely out of the question.

Some people found him in the park across the street and brought him to my building manager, the one armed german war vet. He, remembering me, took him off of them and came up to fetch me. I had a bit of a "er, I live in a building with a no pets policy, what do I say?" moment, but I went downstairs and got him back. He was quitee beside himself with panic, the poor thing. He scurried back and forth everywhere, checking to make sure everything was where it's supposed to be.