Tractive GPS Tracker & Health Monitoring for Cats (6.5 lbs+) – Market Leading Pet GPS Location Tracker | Wellness & Escape Alerts | Waterproof | Works with Any Collar (Mint)

An absolute lifesaver-Given me peace of mind
A few years ago, the cat distribution system gifted me with an Orange tabby on my front step who wanted very much to come inside. Since then, my scruffy street cat has turned into a cuddle bug, but the one thing I haven’t been able to do is keep him indoors 24-7, even though I know that’s the safest for cats. He will scream bloody murder for hours if he doesn’t get to go out in the morning and evening.Initially I was using a pet collar that had an attachment for an Apple AirTag to make sure he sticks close to home, but I found it fairly inaccurate since it only pings off of other Apple devices in the area. I kept seeing advertisements for Tractive on social media, and after reading the reviews on Amazon, I decided to get their cat GPS collar and subscription.It was money well spent. The device is pretty lightweight, although still big enough that I take it off when he has to eat or sleep. It has shown me his daily routes and routines, and now I know he is pretty close by and doesn’t venture far (sometimes just snoozing under the porch). It also has the ability to sound a device alarm if it gets lost (he did lose it in a bush one day and I was easily able to retrieve it with the GPS and sound feature). You can even turn on a little light remotely from the app if your pet is outside in the dark.My only “complaint” is that the silicone holder has already torn a little, but my cat really puts it through the wringer, so it is negligible. I would definitely recommend Tractive to all pet owners—I wish I had this back when I had a Coonhound puppy who got lost for 3 days before we found him. Never again! Thanks Tractive.

Tractive not attractive in many ways! AWFUL GPS
1. The battery life on the device sucks. And it sucks even more because the makers of this created a way to “save battery” by asking users to set up a Power Saving Zone. This requires setting up your home wi-fi to search for your pet via bluetooth under a tab called FIND NEARBY. They wanted to do the same thing the makers of Tile, Airtag and Galaxy Smartag did. However Tile , Airtag, etc. do not force you to have your phone GPS on at all times for this Power Safe Zone to work just via BLUETOOTH. Yet Tractive does which in turn extends the device’s battery and instead drains your phone battery. Why Tractive engineers force having phone GPS on with a feature that doesn’t find the pet via GPS. Strange!2. The IRONY of all the above is that the 2nd way Tractive allows you to track your pet is via Google GPS with a tab called LIVE. You can ONLY use the LIVE tab if you are far away from your home’s wi-fi Power Saving Zone since this feature really uses just GPS. Even turning off wi-fi on your phone WON’T allow you to use LIVE. One could think who cares to use LIVE via GPS if the cat is at home. EXCEPT if you set up Power Safe Zone it seems 70% of the time you cannot track the cat with FIND NEARBY. In other words setting Power Safe Zone messes up the app and your cat is untraceable . So you won’t know if cat left the house!I kept thinking it was a fluke . Attempted every solution to a lame girl. Erase cache on app, log in and out of the app, get close to the pet. ONLY SOLUTION was to erase the Wi-fi Power Saving Zone .3. After erasing the unusable “power saving zone” the battery on the device lasted about 40 hours. It takes around 3 hours for the device’s battery to charge. A cat or dog can get lost during this time. So I STRONGLY ADVICE swapping your pet to a temporarily Airtag if you have an Iphone or a Smarttag PLUS if you have a newer Samsung Galaxy. These bluetooth trackers are pretty accurate and have longer range bluetooth capability than Tractive. You are not required to have GPS enabled on your phone at all times to track your pet via bluetooth since they are not GPS trackers. They also don’t require a subscription. Having them wear something is better than nothing unless you want to purchase 2 Tractives devices AND pay 2 subscriptions for just 1 pet while one of the devices is charging. But wait read more…4. Tractive Ring tone is very low. The Galaxy Smartag Plus and Tile ring tone are a lot louder. You better wear a hearing aid to find your pet via the Tractive ring tone.5. While learning the Tractive app found an “interesting” button called Heat and Tracemap. This button supposedly shows where your cat has been. Somehow it showed my cat had moved 407 feet. Not sure how this could have happened. Unless my cat has invisible levitating powers unbeknown to me. The device was on my lap then on my cat who sat 5 feet away from me. Another fluke!6. Tractive has a tab called Virtual Fences. I live in a 4000 + sq foot home with 80 feet length of AC area. Was getting excited something finally would be of use in this app. Wanted to know if my cat jumped out in the pool, yard or escaped. EXCEPT when setting the perimeter around my home I kept getting a warning saying: ” The Virtual Fence is Too Small” . What?7. Tractive requires you to pay RIGHT AWAY for a subscription. You don’t even get a 1 day free trial test. Buy the device and be ready to pay upfront 1 year. Yes feel free to waste your time asking for your money back because we all have lots of it to spare trying to recover the $ that took us time to make.Dear Garmin please start making GPS devices for cats. You guys are the gurus of anything GPS.For now I will be testing the Marco Polo tracker and use this Tractive to track coons and possums inside my garbage can instead. That may be the only place this stupid device works.

We’ve been using the Tractive for several months now and would highly recommend it. It works as advertised, and our cat tolerates it exceptionally well. The charge lasts for a few days. I would definitely recommend using the soft flexible case rather than the hard shell to hold the tracker as it is much more secure. The customer support has been great too!

Love these trackers! Love the peace of mind knowing where my fur baby is when outside during the day. It really earned its keep when he got swept down a drain in a horrendous storm and spat out into the water catchment 700 metres away. I had to wade into the reeds to rescue him. Would never have found him without the tracker! They can be a bit temperamental in bad weather but that’s a small price to pay. Charge lasts about 4 days.