Children, Cat, and Dogs

So, after Adam left I had gotten back into my old routine of not really doing anything until last week. I finally started getting sub jobs for San Diego Unified school district. I determined how to work their system since I am not high on the sub list. I worked Thursday and Friday last week which was a learning experience.
Thursday I had Kindergarten for the first time and may I just say that I am not a Kindergarten teacher. There were only 16 of them but it took all my energy to get them focused for just a minute. We had to take bathroom breaks every hour since most of the students are not used to school and we wanted to avoid having accidents. I also found out that they love to play in bathrooms. I discovered the little boys playing and splashing around in the water at the bottom of the urinals (can we say disgusting?) Anyways, I was exhausted by the time I got home and don't really remember much of that night.
Friday was better, I had a third grade class that was totally self sufficient and just knew how to function. Today I also had a third grade class, they weren't as well put together but were still a good group of kids. Tomorrow I have a split day between Kinder and first so we will see how that goes.
So the strange thing about Friday morning was that Maggie was not in her room (the room shut off from the dogs) to get her breakfast. I was a bit worried but figured she just had gone outside already. I felt bad because I had to shut the doggy door off so the dogs wouldn't come into the house while I was gone. I got home and didn't see her but thought it was because the dogs were around. I took the dogs to the park hoping to give Maggie some time to get into the house but once we got back, no Maggie. At this point I got very worried and cried all night about her being missing. The next day I posted on craigslist and put flyers up around the neighborhood. I had some guy call me at 11pm and tell me that he had my cat. I was arranging a place to meet him when he started asking me all these random questions like if I were single. Eventually he confessed that he was just joking with me and called me as a prank and that he didn't have my cat. Of course this sent me into more tears since my heart had soared at the thought of getting her back. What kind of people do things like that? I couldn't believe it. I am still waiting for Maggie to come home but as each day passes I lose a little bit more hope. I hope she is ok, but if she has passed I hope she is in heaven, if there is such a thing for cats...