Friday, January 25th, 2008
Maybe they should call her “Lucky”
This story ought to inspire pet owners to make sure their pets have some form of ID on them in the event that they get lost. A Florida couple’s cat wound up stowing away in the husband’s suitcase, somehow making it through security and flying in the cargo hold to DFW International Airport. As if that weren’t bad enough, another traveler mistook the suitcase the cat was in for one of his own, and got the surprise of his life when he got home that evening. Fortunately, the cat had a collar with her owners’ contact information on it, and Gracie Mae was promptly reunited with her owner, who was in Dallas for a business meeting. The man who quite literally “let the cat out of the bag,” Robert Carter, was enough of a Good Samaritan to buy a cat carrier for the owner, Seth Levy, to use to bring Gracie Mae home with him.
Naturally, Carter and the Levys were guests on the Today show to talk about the whole ordeal.
It’s a nice story, and I wouldn’t be surprised if both parties involved had a laugh about it even after leaving the Today studios.
