Joins the Lineup of Pet Recovery Tools.
Facial recognition is a new tool for pet recovery available to dog and cat owners. Now a lost cat or dog may be just a smartphone away. Two companies, Finding Rover and PiP (which stands for Positive Identification of Pet), have developed pet facial recognition applications (“apps”) to help reunite lost pets with their owners. Fanciers can use these alternative pet identification apps on iPhone® and Android™ platforms in several countries including the United States, Canada, and Australia. Finding Rover also works on the internet. These smartphone apps avoid some of the issues associated with other pet recovery technologies. They are not dependent on collars and tags that can be lost, microchips that can migrate or fail, or tattoos that can fade. Although avoiding these pitfalls, these apps are similar to the microchip animal identification system in some ways and are different in other ways.
Both apps involve unique identifiers and a database. Unlike microchips, however, there are no invasive procedures to implant any technology in a pet or surgery to remove it. Animal Control and other pet finders do not need any specialized equipment like the universal scanners needed to read microchips. All that is needed is a smartphone, or a camera and computer hooked up to the internet – technology that people frequently have on hand.
So, how does this type of facial recognition work?
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Checklist For What to Look For in Your Club's Next Show Venue
Show Manager To Ring One, Please
Tonkinese
When You're Well and Truly Tonked
AVOIDING The Kitten Fear Period
Young kittens seem fearless.4 As soon as those eyes open and they can get their legs under them, they are off to see the world if their mama and humans let them.
No Milk For You!
Milk Issues and Kittens
Fostering Kittens
When asked if I would be interested in fostering a queen and her eight newborn kittens, I volunteered without question.
Do You present ? Polish! OR DO YOU
IT’S ALL IN THE DETAILS!
No Kitten! Cats Are Part of the Military!
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Feline Summer Movie Fun!
School is almost OUT! Huzzah! But raindrops are plunking against the window, the amusement and water parks haven’t opened yet, camping is out, and roasted hot dogs and S’mores are another month away.
Kittens Are Special...
...and so are some of the show rules for them:
Genetic Pleiotropy and the Risks in Breeding Recessive Mutations
Nearly everyone loves what’s rare and unique. A slight defect in the minting process of a coin can create a demand and a value well beyond the face value of the coin. The coin is functionally no different than its perfectly minted counterpart, but its scarcity and uniqueness alone make it more desirable than the rest.
