Putin’s dog get long-promised satellite tracking collar, wags tail

I know that sounds like a headline from The Onion, but it’s a real headline from Novosti, the Russian news agency. Like GLONASS, the Russian sat nav constellation, the collar for the dog was a bit late. It was promised for delivery over the summer. The whole story is great PR for GLONASS, but I suspect many Russian’s have already read Don Cooke’s 2005 book Fun with GPS which among other things, documents tracking his cat. Today, of course, there are many solutions for animal tracking using GPS and other locating techniques. The potential application for this prototype collar:

The system, Ivanov said, may also be eventually used with dogs from the Russian emergencies ministry when they look for survivors after disasters.