Cat distributed from the forest

I was visiting my family near Austin and while walking past a little forest to get back to the car from a park visit, we heard sad little meows.

I stopped for a bit to listen closer and this girl emerged from the bushes and practically jumped into my arms! She was clearly missing her humans :(

She was promptly named Pearl and taken for a much needed meal (and chip check and missing cat research, which came up empty). I couldn’t take her home with me, but happily my parents fostered her for a bit and then we found her a home with my parents’ neighbors, who are awesome and happy beneficiaries of the CDS Forest Service.