AlphaPets: No more lost pets

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Tue, 02 Apr 2013 7:00p.m.

A new website for lost and found pets has been set up (file)

A new website for lost and found pets has been set up (file)

Lachlan Forsyth 3 News Reporter

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For many people, losing a pet is like losing part of the family.

It can be a distressing, upsetting time, but besides putting up flyers and canvassing the neighbourhood, there’s not a lot you can do once a pet has escaped.

That could all be about to change.

Thanks to an invention by an Auckland school boy, those days of not knowing where your pet has got to may be at an end.

Watch the video for Lachlan Forsyth’s report.

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Lachlan Forsyth

Reporter

Lachlan is a reporter for Campbell Live. He has worked and travelled extensively throughout New Zealand as a journalist and in 2007 he worked in Cambodia on an Asia:NZ journalism scholarship. In 2011 he was one of the few journalists to reach the scene of the devastating Japanese tsunami. Lachlan has an interest in education, environment and social issues, but he’s actually a jack of all trades.