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Pawsitively Reunited is the name of the application you can download from Google Play or the Apple App Store soon. The application will allow you to search for your missing pet, report a lost pet, post a found pet, and check a pets chip number. Facial recognition and a chip scanner are in the building process for the app.

We love our pets and yours!

If your beloved four-legged family member has ever disappeared for a period of time you know how devastating that feeling is. Pawsitively reunited wants to help all of our furry companions find their way home.

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The app is called pawsitivelyreunited
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Every year in the United States approximately 10 million pets go missing. Almost 80% of them never return home. What’s even worse is that approximately 9.4-9.6 million animals are euthanized annually. This is the story of how one woman turned her heartbreak into a foundation dedicated to ensuring that all pets have the chance of being reunited with their families.
 
The problem is that a pet can disappear in an instant. One careless mistake can take a turn for the worse and a beloved family member can be lost forever. On May 26, 2021, a landscaper employed by Shannon accidently left the gate to open and both of her dogs went for an adventure.
  
Gage, the 14-year-old golden retriever and Griffin, the 10-year-old chocolate lab wandered out and down the road. Although Shannon was always careful to close the gates, this was not their first time getting out, and the neighbors were familiar with the two dogs. Gage was located quickly by a neighbor and returned to his home, but Griffin had vanished. Shannon began searching for the 100-pound lab immediately. In the late May heat, she spent hours out in a field behind her house trying to locate her missing giant. There was no sign.
 
After a couple of days, her family and friends joined the search, but by June, there was still no sign. Shannon was determined to find this integral member of her family, so she started reaching out for help. Before long, signs for the missing chocolate lab were everywhere. Facebook and Nextdoor became inundated with requests for information about Griffin. As we drove through neighborhoods in Austin and Round Rock, we would talk to individuals outside who would inform us that they were already on the lookout for Griffin. At one point during the search, people were so desperate to find the dog that one woman, after seeing a chocolate lab on another person’s front porch, tried to take the dog to Shannon to verify it was not her Gentle Giant.
 
However, there were few signs, and hope was dwindling. Shannon refused to give up. For more than a year, Shannon has searched for Griffin. To date, he has not been located. She refuses to give up.
 
All, however, is not lost. There are some amazing bright spots that have come out of this horrible situation. Shannon helped reunite many missing dogs with their owners and adopted two dogs whose owners were never found. During the height of her search, Shannon met many people wanting to help find Griffin. One person in particular, Piper, was so touched by their story that she not only wanted to find Griffin but also wanted to figure out how to solve the problems Shannon was experiencing ​with her search. Piper approached Shannon with an idea ​she had about how to improve and solve some of the issues related to finding and reuniting pets with their owners. This was the beginning of Griffin's Hope and the start of a beautiful friendship. 
 
Griffin’s Hope is a non-profit organization dedicated to reuniting pets with their families. We are working to raise funds to complete the design and launch an app which will use facial recognition and nose print identification across hundreds of websites, applications, and other platforms to reunite lost pets with their families.