This long lost short film was rediscovered by Japanese silent film collector Ichiro Kataoka, who in September 2016 purchased a 9.5mm print of it at an auction without knowing what it was. He soon realized the single reel might be a lost silent short. The film's identity as OUR PET was confirmed by New York-based cinema preservationist David Stenn. Kataoka plans to make a digital copy and then donate the original material to Stenn for preservation.