PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Some kitty math: How many lives did little tabby Gracie Mae use up when she crawled into her owner’s suitcase, got loaded onto a plane, thrown onto a baggage belt and mistakenly picked up by a stranger far from home?
The last time Seth Levy’s wife, Kelly, saw 10-month-old Gracie Mae was before she took her husband to the airport. When she realized the cat was missing, she tore the house apart looking for it and papered their Palm Beach Gardens neighborhood with “lost cat” signs. Then she got a call: Her cat had been found.
Rob Carter of Fort Worth said later, “I went to unpack and saw some of the clothes and saw it wasn’t my suitcase. I was going to close it, and a kitten jumped out and ran under the bed. I screamed like a little girl.”
Carter said he considered keeping the cat before he knew she had a home. “We were going to name it Suitcase,” he said.
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