All the star aligned to reunite these potential long - lost brothers .
Two similar - lookingtuxedo catsnamed Mickey and Milo who were both rescued from the Dallas - Fort Worth airport four years asunder are now together — at home plate with a pilot film ’s family .
It ’s all thanks to a consecrated rescuer ’s luck encounter with a friend back in 2017 .
Connie Ziegler Stout
In October of that class , airline airplane pilot Marcus Vincent was on an ordinary flight into DFW . During the flight , the conversation between Vincent and his co - pilot turned to Vincent ’s pet .
" When they ’re flee , everyone talks about their kids . But we do n’t have kids , so the topic of our big cat always comes up in conversation , " Vincent ’s wife Debbie tells Daily Paws .
After learning about his love of quat , Vincent ’s conscientious objector - pilot told him about a feral Arabian tea — ablack and white kittynamed Mickey — who he fancy the week before at the airport . When Vincent heard people had been offering the cat crackers and other snacks to eat up , he want to supply him with a decorous meal . So during his stopover in Boston , Vincent bought a can ofcat foodfrom a nearby comfort station store , hop he ’d see Mickey when he arrive in Texas .
Courtesy of Connie Ziegler Stout
The hazard of seeing Mickey in Vincent ’s short time at DFW were slim . The aerodrome is one of the world ’s busiest , and the original was n’t indisputable how tight he ’d be to the lonely feline . Luckily , when he arrive , his plane docked just one gate over from where Mickey was staying .
After he spot the pot and feed him the extra meal of Arabian tea food that he ’d brought along , Vincent asked his married woman if she could help get someone to deliver Mickey . At the fourth dimension , the couple live in California , but after their probability meet at the airport , Vincent was smitten . Debbie recall him severalise her that after he ’d returned from the misstep , he ’d be willing to flybackto Dallas just to bring the cat to their home base , so long as someone at the drome could immobilise the pussy first . So Debbie start out get through Dallas - area cat rescue group on Facebook to see if someone might be able to capture the cat and bring him into a clinic . Then some very honest luck came into play .
Mickey Comes Home
It was the very next day that Connie Ziegler Stout , who was working as a trajectory attendant at the time and volunteering with the Dallas - area feline rescue nonprofitMid - Cities Community Cats , was notified by an airport employee of the khat live at the airport . The non-profit-making typically practicestrap , neuter , return(TNR ) for ferine cats they find , but when big cat are favorable enough with human beings , Stout says she tries to find them loving rest home .
Stout used a humanistic lying in wait to catch Mickey the next twenty-four hour period and took him to a veterinary surgeon clinic for a aesculapian exam and to beneutered . As Stout was leaving the clinic , she ran into a friend — another aerodrome employee who was also active in Dallas - orbit cat rescue groups — and distinguish her about the cat .
Just a few days later , Stout get wind from that same friend .
Courtesy of Debbie Vincent
" She said , ' There ’s a womanhood , her husband ’s a pilot , they live in California and she ’s looking for a khat from the drome , ' " Stout tells Daily Paws . And sure enough , that charwoman was Debbie Vincent .
" If they had n’t passed each other , literally in the doorway , I would have never get Mickey , " Debbie Vincent says . It took a few months for Mickey to adjust to life with the Vincents after living on his own outdoors for so long , but after a few months ofsocialization , they say he ’s morphed into a cuddly " lovebug . "
Milo’s Journey Home
Almost four years after Mickey was rescued , Stout have another message from an airport employee . Another tuxedo cat — Milo — needed to be neutered . Stout kept an middle on him in an attempt to trap the qat so that he could be sterilise at the clinic , but the ferine boy was diffident and ran away when approach .
After a few months , Stout take heed that Milo had begun letting employee pet him . Stout was disbelieving that an adult feral cat would change their posture about humankind . But the next time she went to try and catch him , Milo rent her pick him up .
" I have not run across a computed axial tomography that was feral like that and get socialised bread and butter , you know , at an airport , " Stout says . " It ’s shocking to me . "
Stout posted pic and video of Milo on social medium require if anyone could foster or take over the sweet-flavored kitty . Debbie Vincent saw the posts , but she was in the middle of moving from California to Texas and did n’t have the time to take in another pet .
After a few month , the Vincents settled in at their new place and Milo was still up for adoption . Because he looked so much like Mickey , the span say they felt like they simply had to bring him into their home .
" When I first trapped the cat , I really thought he remind me of Mickey . I wondered if they were sibling , " Stout says .
Debbie Vincent says she ’s planning on capture a DNA trial to see if the two qat are actually genetically related . For now , Milo is still getting acclimatize to his young base and his potential long - recede relative Mickey .
