Edit: Cat was found. Thanks for your attention everyone! If this ever happens to you, if the cat is an indoor cat it won't have gone far at all. It can take hours for it to show itself. It was right around the corner hiding in the bramble thicket for 8 hours and then took another 4 hours to coax out finally around 1am. Basically the first place it can get th

For everyone's safety, meet in a public place and never send money to strangers to recover a pet. Verify anyone who claims a pet before arranging a meeting.