Edit:Found! Thank you all so much for your messages and help! She meowed back to us when we called out her name at night and that let us find her in our neighbors backyard! Thank you so much to our neighbors for letting us dig around their backyard to find her, and to a kind person that reached out and let me borrow their infrared goggles, which pushed us to

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.