His face was on 500 posters across Puyallup. Now, ‘the Benny campaign’ is over

A missing Puyallup cat has now reunited with his owners after eight long months.

Benny, a 21-month-old brown tabby, went missing on Dec. 4, 2024 in downtown Puyallup by Maplewood Elementary. Alex Lipston, Benny’s owner, said a harrowing 246 days passed before a call from her vet brought them back together.

“Benny’s a super cool cat and he always stays very close to home and he never strays far – so he’s never been gone for more than six or eight hours,” Lipston told The News Tribune. “I knew immediately when he didn’t show up that something had happened. I still don’t know what happened, but he disappeared, didn’t come home.”

‘As far and wide as possible’

That very day, Lipston started what she calls “the Benny campaign.”…

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