On Wednesday, 1 June 2011, Canada's automated national recovery service broke the 200,000 mark for recovery episodes. Development of this PetLynx powered recovery service began in 2003. The system was beta tested in Calgary, Alberta and Hamilton, Ontario with seeding capital provided by the IAMS brand of Procter and Gamble during 2004/2005.
This unique PetLynx service brought together cloud computing and the only automated ability to provide service to all stakeholders in a community. The completely automated service allows those who find animals and those who lose them to place lost and found reports on the same system for automatic matching. It is also the first service to the solve the two biggest problems facing the industry in pet recovery: Unregistered/unlicensed pets; and, pets for which the only known data is a physical description. In addition, the PetLynx recovery service was and still is the only system capable of automatically searching the admissions of shelters, clinics, pounds, hospitals and agencies as well as the general public for possible matches.
After three years of development and testing the PetLynx recovery service was introduced into commercial operation in the City of Edmonton on Thursday, 4 May 2006. Once again the good people at Procter and Gamble/IAMS, stepped up to provide free automated lost and found posters and media attention for the system. Procter and Gamble have continued this support since 2004 and together with PetLynx now provide this branded service to more than 211 communities in Canada.
Today the PetLynx Automated National Recovery System supports more than 30,000 logins and 4,100 recovery episodes each month in Canada.
About PetLynx:
PetLynx Corporation is an innovative, cutting edge utility automating the Companion Animal Industry in Canada. Hundreds of times a day, the PetLynx Automated National Recovery System recovers lost pets. PetLynx is the only internet system in the world that can recover animals using a physical description, with or without any of the common forms of pet identification. PetLynx is also the only system that can recover pets not enrolled prior to becoming lost. On June first, more than 1,695,836 entities were registered in the PetLynx Automated National Recovery System.
PetLynx.... lifelong protection for pets and peace of mind for people.
Is there any thought to the development of a PetLynx 'APP' for municipalities to use as part of the recovery process?
ReplyDeletePetLynx has produced 2 apps for municipalites that are integrated with its Automated National Recovery service. ShelterLynx(tm) is a shelter management application and portal that manages animals from admissions to final disposition. AnimalTRACS(TM) is an application that is used by municipalities that need to add lost or found animals in their community or search the database for matches. Both applications are completely integrated with the Automated Recovery Service. PetLynx also has a new portal called MuniLynx(tm) that provides much greater functionality for Animal Control agencies. It will betatest after HomeSafe(tm)is complete.
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