MatchPuppy.com: Social Networking Has Gone to a Dogs – New York’s PIX11 / WPIX

NEW YORK – Okay, acknowledge it. We’re all crazy about a dogs.

We watch them on YouTube and post their cinema on Facebook.

But now it’s time for dogs to have a amicable network of their own. At slightest that’s what a smarts behind a New York startup think.

Take, for example, a dog named Bandit.

“He had copiousness of friends behind in San Francisco,” his owners Anthony McGee says. “But now it’s time for him to accommodate new friends in New York.”

So McGee used a startup site MatchPuppy.com to find puppy playdates, a transparent denote that amicable networking has indeed left to a dogs.

Site owners Michael Chiang says a strange business devise was to assistance with ‘puppy love,’ joining owners looking to multiply their pets. But eventually a group motionless “just friends” was fine too.

“We satisfied there was a bigger need in a market, to assistance dog owners kind of promote playdates online,” Chiang says.

Matches are done by neighborhood, breed, and age. But some pet owners have a same kinds of concerns with it as with ‘human’ online matchmaking.

“I would be a small concerned, since we don’t know a dog,” pronounced impending puppy-dater Shameika Bloice.

But other dog owners like Lexi Herman say, “It’d be good to accommodate some other people who have breeds identical to mine.”

And dog owners Brian Huseman agrees. “If there’s a approach for dog owners to correlate and maybe set adult playdates later, we could really see some value in that.”

Chiang says a amicable advantages aren’t for a pups alone.

“Dogs are a good icebreaker,” Chiang says. “And regulating a website like ours, we find new relationships, new friends, so really a tellurian aspect of it is really strong.”

So distant a site is singular to New York, though Chiang says other cities are being eyed as destiny dog-meet-dog worlds.