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While the old trick of bringing out a cute puppy to pick up a girl may still work wonders, modern technology is offering a whole lot more information for your next trip to the park.

SNIF Labs has created the SNIF tag a new intelligent kind of dog tag.  SNIF, which stands for Social Networking in Fur, offers two key functions.  One, you can monitor your dogs activities from afar.  So, if you have two pooches - you might be able to tell which one knocked over and broke your favorite vase while you were at work.  Or, you can find out if your dog walker really took Fido out to stretch his legs.

Via feature number two, you can enhance your own social life with help from your pet.  When your pup is out at the park and encounters other four legged friends, information made available by the dogs’ owners is exchanged via the tags.  Then, from home, social networking kicks in and new friendships of man and beast are forged.

All of the functions are accessible online - from seeing what your pet is up to at the moment to seeing what new friends they have made that day.  It’s like taking that butt sniffing they do and decoding it for us two legged companions…

Read [SNIF Labs]