ZOE IS HOME!
I found her! I literally found her! I went door to door today in the neighborhood and 1 single person had seen her, on his back porch last week. He lived in the building directly behind Simone's building, on the other side of her fence where I called for Zoe every night. I had him put some food out for her on his porch, and then I was putting out a humane trap with food on Simone's side of the fence; I was talking to my aunt Linda on the phone when I was doing it, and I started hearing this cat meowing. I didn't think it was Zoe because it didn't sound like her, but it kept up, so I finally decided to go check it out. The meowing continued the whole time it took me to climb through a fence, go down the parking lot of one building and back up through the parking garage of the other building, and up to where the other side of the fence was, with this wild bamboo thicket all along it. The cat kept meowing so I called to it, and the leaves finally rustled and out came Zoe! I had some treats in my bag, so I held them out to her and she came to me and let me pick her up and hold her and purred and everything. I called Simone and had her pull her car around front because I didn't have a carrier, but when I started carrying her to the front of the building, Zoe freaked out and clawed me until I let her go. She ran back for the bushes, so I sent Simone to get my carrier, and then I camped out at the bushes but she wouldn't show herself or make a sound. I sang to her, I dangled her toys, threw out treats, nothing. Finally, I just climbed into the bushes and straight grabbed her and wrestled her out. She flipped out when I put her in the carrier, but I got her in and got her home! She is a bit skinny, but no worse for the wear! We have already cuddled up together, and now she is sitting on her cat tower, looking around at the apartment like she doesn't quite believe it.