Lost Pets

By The Sprites

We are addressing the plight of pet owners whose pets have gone missing. Their dog could have run off while out on a walk someday and not come back. Perhaps someone else might have stumbled upon a dog with no owner present.

Even if a pet is found, the owner him/herself may not be able

to find out where it has been taken to.

The core question we are addressing with the app are - Are you worried about your pet getting lost? Or have you

ever found a pet but don’t know who the owner is?

Accessible on the app 24/7 so that pets in need are always able to be helped.

[Mini Elevator Pitch]

My team, The Sprites, is developing a mobile appto help pet owners to find their pet if lost. This would help the endless posts on social media of people losing pets and time

wasted searching for the pet.

8/10 people interviewed said they would use the app7/10 people interviewed lived in fifeAll agreed that if there was a simple easy app to help find missing pets.

App must be simple and easy to navigate

Take the pet to the police although they don’t do anything.

Take it to an animal shelter won’t help much either because they will keep the pet and not try to find the owner

The main features that the app needs to function are: pet profiles,

buttons, images, search bar, inbox, photo recognition.

Because of advice given to us by an expert and the feedback we have

gotten from our survey, we have decided to limit the area that our app works in to Fife.

The content which will be images, inbox messages and

photo recognition which will be stored on a cloud.

The thing our app is based on is the fact that too many people who have lost their pets have not been able to find them again. Our app

will still remain free of charge, as it is unlikely a user will be willing to pay to use this. We do not know how we are going to fund the app.

Posters in pet shops

Advertisements in local newspapersPosters in Vets

We made a questionnaire and we got a lot of good feedback

on that which we were happy about.We also spoke to a couple of experts about our app.