It’s one of those stories that touch the heart to all of us who have owned a puppy. On Reddit, I read how someone, not very tech-savvy at first sight, found a lost dog and figured out what an AirTag was… and the best part was that it all went well .
Apparently the user was driving in the rain about a month ago around 10:30 p.m. He had enough reflexes to dodge the impact of what looked like a small animal, which turned out to be our protagonist puppy. He immediately stopped the vehicle and got out to see what had happened: the animal, disoriented, ran towards the driver in search of help. It was a bit cold and damp, so used a towel to dry him off and take him home
who found it I didn’t know what an AirTag was he also didn’t know he was wearing it—on his own accord—only that it had the puppy’s name screen-printed on it. There was no label or anything to give him an address or a number to call. Probably our protagonist, if he had known what an AirTag was, could have brought his mobile closer and read with NFC: the data of the owner could have been there.
“The owner showed up at my house using the AirTag and I didn’t even know what it was”
Whoever found the dog didn’t know that an AirTag can be read even with an Android by NFC, along with the owner’s information. However, it was the owner who found it.
After calming down, buying him some food, and taking him for a walk, he decided to get some sleep and start looking for owners the next morning. However, the very concerned owner was soon to appear: at 5 am someone knocked on his door and asked about the puppy.
“I was speechless as to how he found it. He didn’t know what an AirTag was!”.
T he owner told him that the dog had an AirTag on a leash
In the message he leaves on the Reddit thread, the protagonist of our story asks the community if there was a “high-tech” way to communicate with the owner of the AirTag. As we have already told you in our analysis – and as Apple generally also comments – these devices should not be used as safety devices on people or animals (because they are not so accurate since the search network does not use GPS), but in situations like this, they can be used to solve a bad experience like the one experienced by the owner of this puppy who, fortunately, it ended very well.
