‘Smart Snout’ App Uses Dogs’ Nose Prints to Reunite Lost Pups with Families

A new app, called Smart Snout, can track a missing dog by treating its nose as one would a fingerprint.

It’s thought every dog’s nose has a pattern that, when coupled with the shape of its nostril openings, is distinctive enough to identify it.

The app is free to download; but it comes with an annual cost, if you want to register your dog’s details.

Once your pup’s information is in the app, if the animal were to be lost or stolen, then recovered, the finder could simply scan the animal’s snout.

Then, the owner and the finder would be alerted to the dog’s identity so the dog could get home safely.

The app was only launched about eight weeks ago.  But it already has more than 2,000 subscribers.
(Daily Mail)

• There’s a new app that claims it can identity a dog by using a photo of the animal’s nose like one would a fingerprint—it says if users pay a yearly fee it will keep the dogs’ photo of file and claims it can help the owner find it if the animal is lost or stolen, and then recovered, and the finder scans the animal’s nose on the app