Animal Shelter Now Offering Digital Options For Keeping Pets Safe

Winnebago County Animal Services is now providing some way so as to add emergency touch data on your puppy’s tags, together with getting an app alert for misplaced pets.

The carrier is loose and introduced via pethub.com. WCAS describes it as “a bodily ID tag related to an animal’s on-line profile that may be accessed by way of somebody with a cell tool, whether or not a smartphone or usual cell phone.” The virtual profile can come with touch data for somebody who is helping maintain the animal (spouses/puppy sitters/vets/different friends and family/and so on) and there are different non-compulsory upgrades. For per 30 days or annual rate puppy house owners can get “discovered puppy” indicators. Subscribers will obtain notifications when a tag is scanned in addition to ship an alert with the lacking puppy’s profile to native shelters and companies. WCAS compares it to an AMBER alert however for animals.

The carrier will handiest be to be had for Winnebago, to start with.

“Starting January 1, somebody registering a brand new puppy license via Animal Services or at any Winnebago County veterinary medical institution will obtain the brand new virtual ID tag this is ‘powered by way of PetHub.”

Current puppy house owners can be told extra concerning the carrier and learn how it really works for citizens out of doors of Winnebago County by way of clicking right here.

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