ROCHESTER, Minn. – As a cat might do, Art slipped out a bedroom window one evening. That was 15 months ago. Caylin and Alex Mathis had pretty much given up on Art, when a few days ago they got a call came from an Owatonna veterinarian 40 miles away. Art had an embedded microchip, which made tracing possible. All the vet could say was that an employee at the Fleet Farm in Owatonna had brought Art in. He’d been living around the store for a month or so. So how did Art get to Owatonna? What adventures had he had? Art’s not talking much but purring a lot.

Reunited. Caylin, Alex and Art as life was meant to be.