Please pass this link on to your friend. It has lots of good suggestions.
I'd hate for Punkin to end up like Kuhio.

http://www.petrescue.com/petlibrary/...st-cat-or-dog/

Walk the neighborhood with a photo. Ask every kid she sees.
She needs to go to the shelter over and over. Make a nuisiance of herself. Then the volunteers will remember her. Look in every cage. Ask to look in the infirmary. Look in the DOA file.