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PetNet...Dallas' Love Line

SUSAN DUNN ARNOLD was having her house remodeled when her two standard Poodles, Jemiamah and Molasses, disappeared.

"Now, I like to tell people that they were so smart that they let themselves out',' said Arnold, "but someone left the gate open!'

 

Arnold and her husband were out of town. The housekeeper and Arnold's mother-in-law were home with the kids, and they were devastated.

 

"When you think as much of dogs as we do of ours, losing one is a real trauma. It was a nightmare for the kids. My 14-year-old had

been looking for two days when my assistant at work heard about the situation. He 'called the PetNet number, a volunteer entered the information [in the computer], and a match was made on the spot!"

 

PetNet, a computer network de­vised primarily to locate lost pets, went on line in June 1986 at the Dallas Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It is the brain­child of Dallas businessman Freder­ick Brodsky and computer expert Don Eisan, and is staffed by SPCA volunteers who handle about 50 calls a day from people who have lost their animals.

 

When Dallas Animal Control picks up a dog, a full description of the animal, plus the zip code where it was found, are entered into the PetNet computer. When an SPCA volunteer takes a lost pet call, the same information is entered, then an attempt is made to find a match.

 

"PetNet connects seven of Dallas County's SPCA and Animal Control   Centers:' said Joy Ramsier, SPCA shelter operations manager.

The original cost of the hardware and software for the program was $50,000, but Ramsier offers the complete package—the search program, an adoption program, animal control inventory, supply inventory and payroll—to other cities and humane organizations for $5,100. The search module alone, with multi-user capabilities, costs $2,350.

 

     Neighboring suburbs may get on line absolutely free. The Dallas SPCA will furnish the hardware and the software. The neighboring city needs to furnish only volunteers to staff the phones and the computer terminals. The current target is for 22 centers to ultimately be on line.

 

Rick Denzer was repairing his backyard fence He turned his back for only an instant and Stoker, his Rottweiler, was nowhere to be found.

 

For six days, Denzer searched until midnight, nailing up signs in the neighborhood and driving the alleys in the cold and the rain, call­ing out the dog's name.

 

Finally, Denzer called PetNet. A few hours later a match was made.

 

"I was pretty happy',' Denzer said. "I rushed to the SPCA when they called me about the match, and sure enough, it was Stoker. I never dreamed that I could become so attached to an animal. There is a real bond between us!'

 

At the other end of the phone line, there is no mistaking the satis­faction and   excitement of the volun­teer at the terminal when she cries out, We got a match!"

 

Smiles break out all over the place.

 

When you reach PetNet, you really have love on the line.