Use case · Pets

A pet tag that doesn't broadcast your phone number

A traditional tag engraves your personal cell into metal and hangs it on an animal that talks to everyone. A HeyTextMe sticker on the tag means a finder can reach you in seconds, and your number stays off the collar.

The engraved-tag problem

Anyone within reading distance of your dog has your number: at the park, at daycare, in every photo someone posts. Change carriers or numbers and the tag is jewelry. And if your pet is nervous, a stranger reading a collar up close is exactly the interaction nobody wants.

What a finder does instead

Details pet people care about

• The bio does real work: temperament ("shy, don't chase"), meds, a reward note. More than any engraving fits.
• It survives your number changing. The code points at your page, not your SIM.
• Microchips still matter. They're the vet-scanner backstop. This is the fast path: most found pets are resolved by a neighbor with a phone in the first hour, not a chip reader.

Same trick works on anything that wanders: see lost & found.