Future help for finding lost pets!

**TheAntiPam** · 08-23-2002, 11:00 AM

Where's Felix? Just Track Him on the Mobile...
Fri Aug 23, 9:10 AM ET

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Lost your cat or dog? No need to whistle or call on a fruitless search -- just track your pet with your mobile phone.

A Finnish firm says "wanted" posters of lost pets will be a thing of the past thanks to new technology: a mobile phone and a tracking unit that is strapped on the back of the animal.

When the pet goes missing its movements are followed via an electronic map displayed on a handheld monitor by the owner.

The device is also expected to be popular among hunters needing to trace their dogs searching for game, said Matti Koskelo, sales manager at Pointer Solutions, one of the firms marketing the system.

Former User · 08-23-2002, 12:47 PM

Yet another way of using your mobile phone

WAY TO GO FINLAND!!!!

**sujei** · 08-23-2002, 10:54 PM

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**krazyaboutkatz** · 08-24-2002, 08:05 PM

This is great news.

**Ann** · 08-27-2002, 09:10 AM

Nice idea and all but do they really expect people to want to have some big thing strapped onto their pet at all times? I doubt that tracking system is small and light, so it'd probably bother the animal. Maybe it can be modified into some smaller chip that can be surgically put in and be tracked with any electronic device (such as computers and not just cellphones).

But yes, this is a good idea, I hope the will work with it and elaborate it a little more!

And

for the idea about using it to hunt