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dm24angel
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WOW-this is a crazy cat story
Missing cat found in owner's suitcase
Fla. Woman's 10-Month Old Missing Cat Found in Owner's Lost Suitcase
Staff
AP News
Jan 22, 2008 22:34 EST
The last time cat-owner Kelly Levy saw her tiger-striped feline was before she took her husband to the airport. The 24-year-old came back to her house late Friday to find the bottom step, where Gracie Mae would usually be waiting, empty.
Levy tore the house apart looking for the 10-month-old tabby who had been spayed just days before. She and her dad took out bathroom tiles and part of a cabinet to check a crawl space and papered the neighborhood with "lost cat" signs.
Then she got a phone call.
"Hi, you're not going to believe this, but I am calling from Fort Worth, Texas, and I accidentally picked up your husband's luggage. And when I opened the luggage, a cat jumped out," Levy recalled the caller saying, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported.
Rob Carter, of Fort Worth, told The Dallas Morning News for its online edition Tuesday that he made it home with the suitcase.
"I went to unpack and saw some of the clothes and saw it wasn't my suitcase," Carter said. "I was going to close it, and a kitten jumped out and ran under the bed. I screamed like a little girl."
Carter said that he eventually was able to get the cat to come out from under the bed.
"In the morning, I got close enough to see its collar and the phone number on it," he said. "So I called the number and got a hold of the crying wife of the traveler."
Gracie Mae had crawled into Seth Levy's black suitcase undetected, been put through an X-ray machine, loaded onto an airplane, thrown onto a baggage claim conveyor belt and picked up by a stranger.
Carter delivered Gracie Mae to Seth Levy and the tabby made the 1,300-mile trip home on an $80 plane ticket Sunday night.
Carter said that he considered keeping the cat before he knew she had a home.
"If I couldn't have found a good home, I would have kept it," he said. "We were going to name it Suitcase."
Source: AP News
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june262004
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MissJones
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jellybean78
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Re: WOW-this is a crazy cat story
Glad they found the cat and it was OK. I would have crapped my pants if I opened a suitcase and a cat jumped out. Poor thing must have been scared.
On another note doesn't make me too confident in airport security. You couldn't detect a living breathing animal in a suitcase but you're supposed to find weapons that can be easily concealed
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BaroqueMama
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Re: WOW-this is a crazy cat story
"We were going to name it Suitcase."
This just made me spit my water out
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| Posted 1/23/08 10:03 PM |
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dm24angel
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Re: WOW-this is a crazy cat story
Posted by prncss
"We were going to name it Suitcase."
This just made me spit my water out
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nrthshgrl
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Re: WOW-this is a crazy cat story
Wait - why couldn't they just ship it back in another suitcase?
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| Posted 1/23/08 10:07 PM |
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Phyl
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Re: WOW-this is a crazy cat story
Posted by dm24angel
Posted by prncss
"We were going to name it Suitcase."
This just made me spit my water out
My DD's boyfrend just moved and my cat had crawled into his suitcase. I can totally see this happening! So glad kitty was ok!
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| Posted 1/23/08 10:07 PM |
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Lisa
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Re: WOW-this is a crazy cat story
it is crazy!
I posted this on the Pets board this afternoon....
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| Posted 1/23/08 10:30 PM |
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