MOSCOW — A Russian cat owner is now short a few hundred thousand air miles for sneaking his fat cat aboard a flight using a hairbrained scheme involving a cat double. <br />He should have gotten away with it too, but for some unexplained reason, his air carrier Aeroflot found out. <br /><br />It was most likely entirely unrelated to the man's Facebook post about the entire thing. <br />BBC reports that 34-year-old Mikhail Galin was flying from the Latvian capital of Riga to Vladivostok, which had a stopover in Moscow. <br /><br />Traveling with Mikhail was his furry feline friend Viktor. <br /><br />Everything was going along PURR-fectly, until Aeroflot staff refused to let Mikhail take Viktor into the passenger cabin for the second leg of his flight because of weight restrictions. <br />Aeroflot rules state pets weighing more than 17 pounds have to be shoved in the luggage hold. Viktor was tipping the scales at 22 pounds. <br /><br />So what did Galin do? He delayed his flight so he could find a skinnier cat double to pass the airline's weigh in. <br />He returned the next day with the Viktor-lite version the next day and got past the check-in desk. <br /><br />Mikhail then gave back the smaller cat to its owner at the airport before getting on the plane with Viktor for his flight to Vladivostok. <br />After his Facebook post about the entire ordeal went viral, Aeroflot took notice and decided to strip Galin of all his air miles.<br />The cat was contacted for comment, however by the time of publication TomoNews wasn't yet able to find out whether Viktor's miles are still good.
