Dog Registration on an App

“Pet Now”-app for dog owners

Pet nose wrinkle ID

An app that prevents you from losing your dog

[해외 특파원 | 조준원 기자]Dogs are by far the most popular pets in the world. According to Statista, a German statistics company, it is estimated that there are 470 million dogs as pets worldwide. In Korea, there are 2.09 million as per statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs in 2019. As the number of dogs as pets are steadily increasing, there is a common problem arising for a lot of dog owners. It has become difficult to identify dogs. It is not easy to distinguish between the same species because they look similar. In addition, in order to raise a dog, it is necessary to register through the animal registration system, but it is said that chips are usually planted in the body and registered, but it can be expensive for the owners and stressful for the dogs. This means that there are more dogs without methods of identification.

However, there seems to be a solution that goes hand in hand with the advancement of technology. Like human irises and fingerprints, 500 million dogs have a unique body pattern with a 0% probability of overlapping. It is the pattern of their snout. The mark that the nose of a dog can make is unique as it would be for a human’s fingerprint.  The inscription is unique to each dog and does not change for life, demonstrating that perhaps it is even better and more reliable than human fingerprints. Accuracy is superior to that of dogs’ iris and DNA detection. The Canadian Club (CKC), North America’s leading dog association, has used inscriptions since 1938. By putting ink on the nose and stamping it onto a piece of paper, they have been able to use it as a form of identification and differentiation. In the 21st century, inscription technology has developed rapidly. It is thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) that recognizes certain patterns.

One prominent app that allows easy pet identification is called “Pet Now.” Where you can register the animal registration system with just an inscription and find your lost dog. If you open the camera with the Pet Now app and face your dog’s nose, AI will recognize the inscription and register it easily and quickly. And Pet Now is currently conducting a “Find a Dog” campaign to prevent the loss of a dog. The “Find a Dog” campaign is a campaign to help you find your dog faster by registering dog information on the Pet Now campaign page if you lose your dog. This Pet Now app is currently used by many people. In addition, the app is free, so many people can use it comfortably.