A dog lover has invented a gadget which can track a missing dog by treating its nose - like a FINGERPRINT.<br /><br />Smart Snout is the brainchild of Bradley Watson, 44, who came up with the idea after watching a police show on TV.<br /><br />He saw officers using fingerprint technology to collar crooks and realised that the same idea could be applied to pooches.<br /><br />It is thought that every dog's nose has a pattern that, when coupled with the shape of its nostril openings, is distinctive enough to identify it.<br /><br />Bradley, from Bramford, Suffolk, said: "We're doing really well - we've just applied to go onto Dragon's Den!<br /><br />"The reviews are absolutely amazing. It is - in theory, at the moment - an unbeatable system.<br /><br />"It's working really well, and we're hoping, if we can get enough bodies on board. There's no way it can be beaten, unlike the chip - which is just cut out.<br /><br />"I've been watching the growth of dog thefts, and I've witnessed it first-hand from customers.<br /><br />"I've always tried to find a way - like I said, I was just watching police interceptors. They did a roadside scan of a fingerprint suspect.<br /><br />"It brought up all their details on the system, and I thought, 'now why can't we do this with dogs?'.
