It's been a woefully long time since my last post and I have no real excuse for my absence. However, I have been thinking about my final project idea - a device that tells a person, on demand, where their pet is at that time.
My classmate Ed told me the story of his cat who was "rescued" by a well-meaning stranger who thought he was a stray. She scooped him up and took him to her home, where she kept him for a few weeks before feeling bad about it, and started advertising that she'd found a cat.
Long story short, quite by chance Ed and his cat were reunited. But it struck me that the most proactive thing he could do was put the word out that his cat was lost. This is hugely frustrating for owners of lost pets. A device that could tell you were your cat was would save a lot of heartache.
When a pet gets lost people search far and wide, and often the pet is found very close to where they were last seen. It would be great to call up the info from a tracking device and be told where they were exactly.
