My daughter and I foster cats from Feral Fixers. We integrate them into living in a home instead of outside. One day I had the windows open (the bottom not the top as I usually do) and our 2 fosters, Chuck and Peabody pushed the screen out and escaped, that was the night of the horrible rain storm. The next day we put out two traps with food and several litter boxes. One trap was in the garage with the door up so they would have room to come inside. Two days later, Peabody was trapped in the garage and then 2-3 more days Chuck got trapped in the garage trap. Yeah!!! So keep your hopes up and see if you can borrow a trap to help get your cat back. Good luck!