FROM THE PDN’s ‘Pet Connections’ all-about-pets column that will be published in our print edition this Sunday (Page C7):
A FREE SMARTPHONE app called Finding Rover uses facial recognition technology to reunite lost dogs (and now cats) with their people, reports Elizabeth Miller for National Public Radio.
Pet owners upload a picture of their lost dogs.
Shelters and other Finding Rover users upload pictures of found dogs.
The app’s software, using facial recognition technology, develops algorithms for pets, identifying their unique facial features.
When a found dog photo is matched with a lost dog photo, the owner is notified.
So far, more than 600 dogs and people have been reunited.
ANYONE ON THE North Olympic Peninsula using this app to help find missing pets?
Any success with it? Please let us know in the ‘Comments’ section below. Many thanks.
