Cat lost in house

[Tiddlybear]

Hi

I am a panic and need some constructive advice. Got a vert friendly 2 year old cat from resuce centre last week. She has settled in really well.
Yesterday came home from work and couldn't find cat - found her evually trapped in safe cupbaord in bathroom , she wasnt upset.

Today came form work she was fine, eat her dinner, played with dc. Noted when I was in kitchen that I didn't see her anywhere. So checked everywhere obvious and not so obvious including the cupboard she was in yesterday. Nowhere, have gone round house shaking her food, still cant hear or see her Checked everywhere I can think of - except up the chimney.

I am not used to cats so am really worried about, trying to stay calm as I upset the dc yesterday and dc2 is saying he has a sore tummy worrying about her.

Will she be ok, will she come out when dc go to bed (they are noisy but she usually wants to play with them).

Where else should I check, door and windows closed, washing maching and all kitchen applicances closed.

When we first got our little kitten about 16 years ago she disappeared immediately and we located her eventually under the kitchen cupboards. She had slipped behind the oven into the space under the adjacent cupboard. We could hear the mewing and panicked that she was stuck. exH busted a hole in the wall behind where she was in order to rescue her but she just evaded us and squeezed out the way she had got in, leaving us with the hole in the wall to fix .

She settled down after about a week and stopped disappearing for the most part. We did have to check under cushions all the time, and inside the oven before turning it on (I realised she could probably climb up into hot areas after the first escapade). And I watched out for her in the laundry -- couldn't just empty it all into the washing machine without paying attention. We had a basement with a dropped ceiling at the time and once she got into the ceiling and brought down all the tiles, domino-style, much to her great surprise.