What an emotional roller coaster! I am soooo glad you found her.
When my mom passed away, we were out of town at her funeral. My SIL was watching our pups at my house and she called saying that she couldn't find Mylan. She looked everywhere. She had her kids out knocking on doors and she was driving the car around for about 2 hours.
When she called back, she was in tears. She could hardly talked. We were preparing ourselves to hear some really bad news according to all the crying she was doing.
But they were tears of joy. She found Mylan locked up in a closet! That little toot! So now when we miss one, we look in closets first, and that's where we usually find them.