Time has changed and the pets that were decades ago that were living at barnyard and used for food and work have now become so called members of the family. A pet can be any animal that can be domesticated from which you don’t have threat and which is able to live with you at your home and become familiar with the way of living of humans. There are have been a number of animals that can be trained and domesticated without any harm
It has been observed that people don’t have any children have adopted pets and made them their children and they love them like their own offspring. It is moment of great sorrow and grief when a pet gets lost. In the past it was quite difficult or rather impossible to find the lost pet. The only way was to put posters and signs of the lost pet on the neighborhood. The other way around was to call our friends and people that we have visited with our pet. Now the scenario has been changed a lot and we have got an opportunity of finding our pet at the foster homes dedicated for the lost and neglected pets. There is huge possibility of finding a lost at a pet shelter nearest to your home. This is a very good system of providing shelter to roaming lost animals that are a great problem especially in the big cities. Such animals usually die because of hunger, disease or being hit by a vehicle while crossing the road.
Having animal control and shelters does not mean your pet will be found. This is not enough for people today. When their beloved "Fluffy" is lost, they want to be able to find them immediately. This need created a market for new devices to track and locate pets.
However it is not sure that your lost fluffy will surely be at a pet shelter or a foster home and people are much worried and needed to find their pet immediately such a problem has led to the creation of market of pet tracking devices. The pet finder devices come in variety of ways
One of the methods that you can deploy to help your pet found is the dog tag. A simple tage is attached with the collar of your pet with necessary engraved over it usually including the phone number of the owner, the name and particularly the address. It’s the best and least thing that you can do to get your pet back.
Another way around to find your lost pet is to tattoo a serial number of your pet which is the serial id of your pet whose identity and other information is stored at the database of the animal control. It is a good idea but not had widely adopted. Another similar way was to imbed a chip inside the foods of skin of the pet usually in the neck. The shelters could scan the chip to get the necessary identity information of the pet that would help to return the pet to the owner. There are more than one manufactures of the chip leading to the requirement of more than one scanner to scan the chip. Such complications of different standards has the made the chip not to be quite popular method
GPS is one of the safest and best methods of locating you pet. Being developed for military applications GPS found way to private sector and now has been heavily used right from finding a pet to finding a stolen car. The GPS device available for the pet can be attached to its collar and it can be tracked by using your cell phone, computer or using the website of the device provider. It's extremely reliable and extremely accurate. GPS has enabled it to find your pet precisely without bothering others and it not very expensive now. You can then track your pet's location through your computer, cell phone, or by calling the company you bought the service from. It is amazing technology. You can set up safe zones; such as your yard. If you're pet leaves the yard you could be notified in several ways; a cell phone text message, a beeping noise from your pet's collar, notification on your computer, and even a phone call from the company.
Pet finder technology has revolutionized the way of finding your pet back to your home. Days have gone when you have to advertise for your lost pet and call to pet shelters and roam around in search of your beloved fluffy. With the help of GPS and similar technologies now it has become possible for you keep an eye all the time on your pet location around the world. Today we can flip open our cell phones and know exactly where "rover" is. Note: this same technology is being used to help track and locate our children. If you have children you should look into this ever changing technology to help keep your children safe.
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