Does your dog iPaw?

You know your dog is dying to "tweet." (For the technologically uninitiated, that means posting things on Twitter.)

Now, Mattel is coming out with a high-tech toy that will post one of 500 canned tweets to your dog's Twitter page after it's triggered by a sound and motion sensor worn on the animal's collar.

From a story in the L.A. Times:

Attached to a dog's collar, the plastic tag randomly generates one of 500 canned tweets when it detects barking or movement and automatically posts an update to Fido's own Twitter page.

... A frenzied run through the backyard might garner "I finally caught that tail I've been chasing, and .... OOOUUUCHH!"

.... Puppy Tweets is Mattel's first foray into the pet market and just one of thousands of toys that the El Segundo company plans to release this year through its various divisions.

Executives say that the toy bridges Americans' love of pooches with the growing popularity of sites such as Twitter and Facebook, which keep users constantly updated on their friends' whereabouts and goings-on.

....

Christian Velasco, 23, said he planned to check out Puppy Tweets because he often wondered what his dogs, Bailey and Casey, were doing during the day.

A Twitter user and co-owner of West Hollywood pet boutique D.O.G., Velasco said he thought the toy would resonate with consumers.

"It's a dog market," he said. "Now Apple just needs to make an 'iPawd.'"

 

Via our colleague Muhammed El-Hasan over at the Daily Breeze Biz Waves blog who scooped us on this one.