I would like to announce to everyone the release of a book that ties right into the mission of PETS 911: finding the lost and helping return them home. Lost Sphinx Cat by Kyt Dotson.

It’s free to read online.

Augustus Caesar, missing cat, and the little girl who loves him, Holly. Of course, this is a Vexations story, so there is a twist. Even before she starts looking, Vex discovers that what looks like an ordinary domesticated cat is actually a dangerous shapeshifter with an insatiable hunger. Through whatever means the cat landed in a pet store and then in the hands of an unsuspecting family. Vanished under unfortunate circumstances she has to decide how to handle the reunion—if any reunion between loving family and potentially perilous moggie can even happen.

Come, read this story about a bond between cat and girl that transcends the nature of the beast—that in the end, not everything is exactly how it seems. From monsters to housecats.

Mill Avenue Vexations is a chapbook ‘zine and webserial printed in Tempe, Arizona about gothic underground culture. About a taxt cab driver named Vex Harrow who works not just the mean streets of Phoenix, but protects unsusepcting citizens from the things that go bump in the night. It is a slightly gritty, slightly sideways Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the off-the-beaten path crowd of readers. Lost Sphinx Cat, however, is written in a style which should be more encompassing of a general audience.

Every year, tens of thousands of pets will go missing. Accidentally escaped out the door when someone didn’t notice. Simply vanished. Gone on walkabout. Some of them will come home on their own; some will not. By in large, this is harrowing experience for any family—to have to wonder how one of their pets is doing out in the strange wilds of the streets, in the cold, dust, and possibly rain.

Be sure to visit the Lost & Found 101 section to see what you can do to help prevent lost pets and what you can do if you do happen to lose your pet, you can use the information there and the lost and found boards to aid in your reunion. 

Read Lost Sphinx Cat by Kyt Dotson.

Proper discolsure: I am the author of the above book; and the entire back cover serves as an advertisement for Pets 911. The story, however, is not affiliated with Pets 911 except in that it has a similar outreach.

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