I got my issue today! :) Thank you for reading everything (and caring!) about Alice!  I haven't been able to put this on the pet thread yet, but my mom was talking to one of her friends, who was talking to one of her friends, who happens to be her owner!  I'm not sure if I told anybuggy, but there was this old couple in my neighborhood, and the old man recently died, so there has been lots of confusion going on lately.  Alice got scared, escaped, and tried to find a loving home, like the one she used to live in.  I feel bad for the old woman, though.  Could you imagine losing your husband and your cat at the same time??  I'm so glad for her that Alice is back home.  (She said she's never going to let her outside again ((of course, Alice had a microchip put in her at the animal shelter (((they let me use the scanner on her! It was just like at the grocery store!!))) so if she did escape and someone found her, she would be perfectly safe)) ).  I still need to go visit her...  Did you hear me say that she's actually fifteen years old?!?!?!?!  That explains why she didn't know how to get back home and why she slept the entire time.  Thanks!!