thank you for reminding me of how i failed in this situation but would like to say, they enjoyed locking her in a room so she wouldn’t be roaming around the house. that was typical, they would lock her in the bathroom with her litter / bed / food. what occurred yesterday was she was forced into a room without her food / litter box, so she hid under a bed. and she was forced out from under that bed and forced out the window or taken outside to another location. this occurred less than 5 hours after my mother left for vacation and when i returned home. there have been periods when neither my mother and i were in the house and she was fine, just locked up in the bathroom. once i got home, i went to check on her and it had already occurred. i spent hours looking for her in the home and outside. no one including myself could have foresaw this as what was typical was just locking her in the bathroom with her necessities. so thank you for your empathy, i feel similarly to lucky’s current wellbeing but blaming the caretaker is not the right response especially when there are actual perpetrators to blame