How dumb is this cat?

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Dumb cat...
"Lulu" came up missing the 12th of March. She is an inside cat. Anti-social, very flighty, scared of her own shadow type...
She doesn't make a lot of noise, not very vocal. We figured she got outside and was gone. The last we saw of her was that Sunday morning. My wife fed her breakfast and she disappeared.
My daughter has heard her mewing a couple of times but the cat would clam up as soon as we started making noise looking for her. My wife heard her mew (the first time any of us other then the daughter actually heard her) last Saturday morning at 3:50am as she was waiting for the dog to do his business outside. She woke me up all in a tizzy and we spent the next hour and a half looking for this stupid cat. I pulled off drywall in the garage and actually heard her myself after doing that so I started to believe the "crazy ladies".
After I heard her I knew where she was so it was a simple matter to pull of an access panel to get her out. I had to coax her out with food though.
I found her living in the crawl space under our entryway. She wasn't trapped, she could get in and out (under the stairway landing) as she pleased, but she spent 1 day short of a month sequestered under the entryway floor. There is no heat under there so it gets cold... She was VERY thirsty and VERY hungry and she had dropped 3.3 lbs... According to the vet she was in good shape and had good color...
I just wish I could speak cat so I could ask her what she was thinking?
Dumb cat... She laid on my lap for about three hours Saturday night burrowed under a blanket...
My wife and I are going to try the "Lulu Diet"... NOT!...