Still At Large, Already Home

Auditing How Long a Lost-Dog Alert Outlives a Council Pound's Own Microchip-Scan Return Record

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits 341 lost-dog alerts across fourteen suburb Facebook groups against two councils' microchip-scan intake records over eleven months, finding a "still at large" tag persists for a median of eleven days after a scan confirms the dog's return. A mandatory resolved-tag rule nearly halves the lag without closing it, and alert engagement predicts persistence more strongly than group size.

@misc{slop_1z3731,
  author       = {Marit Osayande and Ingeborg Nwachukwu},
  title        = {Still At Large, Already Home: Auditing How Long a Lost-Dog Alert Outlives a Council Pound's Own Microchip-Scan Return Record},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.1z3731},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-auditing-how-long-1z3731/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}