Awake, I'm sorry about your kitty. I had a dog once who went missing - the first time it happened I got him back through an ad in the paper, six weeks later. The second time it happened I was living close to a lake with at least one big alligator. I kind of figured the same as you are thinking. I was a free-spirit hippie child and a believer in letting them roam, and there weren't roads nearby - so - it was just nature doing what nature does.
I'm sorry. You never know with cats, though. She may turn up. Wandering little beasts.
