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tractive GPS Tracker & Health Monitor for Cats
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| Current Price | $83.74 | October 16, 2024 |
| Highest Price | $83.74 | October 13, 2024 |
| Lowest Price | $83.74 | October 13, 2024 |
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tractive GPS Tracker & Health Monitor for Cats Description
- SUBSCRIPTION PLAN NEEDED – Monthly, 1 year, 2 year and 5 year plans available starting at $5 per month.
- LIVE TRACKING & LOCATION HISTORY – Follow your furry friend’s every step in real-time on your phone. See where your cat has been and what they’ve been up to with this cat GPS tracker.
- VIRTUAL FENCE – Mark safe zones, like your garden, and know the moment your cat leaves one – and when they come back safely.
- ALL-DAY ACTIVITY MONITORING – Track active time, rest and calories burned. Set fitness goals. Keep your cat in great shape with the cat GPS tracker collar attachment.
- DESIGNED FOR CATS & 100% WATERPROOF – Rain, shrubs and trees are no problem for Tractive. Best for cats 6.5lb.
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Daniela Ponte Caro –
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.
María de los Ángeles Narvaez Bonastre –
I tried airtag before but it only shows thirty meters Bluetooth range. I returned it back and ordered this one . I really liked this product because it is a little smaller than the others and it was suitable for my cat since he is thin and active. Also, even though it is a subscription, I think it is worth it. You can track worldwide. I liked that it comes with a collar, has an extra protective case, is rechargeable, and its battery lasts a very long time.
Vicky –
I purchased 2 trackers for my cats and signed up for the base monitoring subscription services.
The trackers work great and the cats don’t seem to mind wearing them when I send them outside. The trackers haven’t fallen out of the collar and have good battery life.
The Tractive app is great because, it track where in the neighbourhood the cat wanders throughout the day and the amount of distance covered. I have had to go find the cat a few times and the GPS is accurate for finding them when they are out late and you need to go get them. From the app you can trigger a sound and light from the tracker to help in locating the pet. The sound that is made is not the loudest; but having the option is nice.
I did have trouble with once of the trackers connecting to the GPS and worked with customer service. They tried several options to restart and reset the tracker; but after a few unsuccessful trys they sent a replacement GPS tracker. The dialog with customer service was quick and polite, while I wasn’t happy that the GPS wasn’t working Derek from customer service was responsible and did his best to help me out and add a month of extra subscription for the inconvenience.
Overall very satisfied with the product, service, and partner app. I have peace of mind that my cats can be easily located and I can track where they are and go.
Leonardo Romero –
Para mejor tranquilidad; debería de tener una opción de localización al momento de salir de casa; porque la zona segura es muy extensa y muchas veces la casa es menos en radar; sin embargo funciona perfecto para mi mascota que es una traviesa gatita
Judi –
I’ve only had it for a month but it is so nice. It tells me where my cat is, where he has been, where he spends the most time and you are able to send a noise to the tracker and train your cat to come home, which is perfect for late nights when he is far away. The battery lasts 3 days and it charges very fast. It works very well, is small and does not weigh alot. It is very easy to set up. The few things I would like to add is that it is on the more expensive side since not only do you have to buy the tracker but also purchase the subscription which can come out to a total of $200-$300. The battery also gets wasted easily when you put it in “live” mode which is to see exactly where the cat is in that exact moment. Overall this is a great purchase and I do not regret it.
Judi –
I tried to keep my cat indoor-only but like Houdini, he always found a way to go on walkabout. Fitting him with Tractive Cat Mini was a concession toward his happiness and my peace of mind.
Location: this has been dead-on accurate and such a huge relief. Recently, I wasn’t able to return home before dark and got a notification kitty was 2 blocks away from our house. I drove right to the address shown in the app, activated the flashing light, called him and bingo, less than a minute later he came right to me and I got him home safe. I have also located him at other areas of the neighborhood during the day and when found he always blinks up at me rather bewildered, like “how did you know where I was?” There have been a number of other times I want to know exactly where he is and this tracker shows me. My only “wish for” is that live tracking is available in the ‘safe’ aka wifi zone. Sometimes I can shut down the program, restart, and have that option, but not always. I know the safe zone is for power saving but sometimes it’s more important to me to know precise location on the property and the wifi/radar tracking is occasionally iffy.
Battery: tracking my cat 8-10 times a day for a minute or two each time seems to use about 10% or less per day (kitty is only allowed out during the day). As I learn to trust both tracker and kitty, I’m getting more comfortable not charging the tracker every night, and am satisfied with battery performance. I recently downloaded the program update, so look forward to even more improved location and battery life with the update.
Comfort: not gonna lie, even the ‘mini’ takes up quite a bit of furry real estate. But my guy is 20 lbs (ahem, “big-boned”) and seems to wear it comfortably. I purchased the ‘harness clip’ for the Tractive and a dog-sized harness to fit him thinking that would be more comfortable having the tracker weight on his shoulders than having the tracker directly under his chin. Kitty doesn’t like the harness on/off routine so for now we’ll stick with the collar. The collar itself is very good quality and snaps on and off exactly as it should. It is easy to adjust for size and weight of cat (breakaway point). I took the bell off; just something to get in the way and didn’t really produce much sound to warn wildlife.
Sound locator: very, very quiet. Hard to hear unless very, very close. The cat will hear it though, and perhaps could be trained that when the song plays it’s time to either come home or start looking for parent to give them a lift.
Attachments: I found the best option for us is the flexible rubber encasement that fits onto the collar. It’s easy to remove the tracker to charge and reinstall it. That said, though handling carefully, after 3 weeks of use it has already torn and I’m currently securing it with rubber bands. I’ve ordered replacements, but more robust durability of this item would be most welcome to prevent loss.
Subscription plans: I like that I can pay month to month, which has been super helpful during the adjustment period to see if Tractive will be a fit for me before committing to a long-term plan. Tractive is a good fit, so at some point I will consider a longer subscription to lower the monthly cost.
App: great app, easy to use, and accurate so far. The out-of-safe-zone and re-enter notifications have worked perfectly. It’s fun to see the other Tractive kitties in the neighborhood and interesting to keep up with my guy’s fitness/sleep stats. But where app really shines is location, location, location. Friends I show this to are amazed and fascinated. A tip if you don’t have the upgraded plan that keeps track of history: screen shot your cat’s location or history map each day to keep a record of their travels. That can be texted to someone helping locate/pick up kitty. Again, the ability to live track in the safe-zone would be a bonus for more peace of mind. Pretty please. 😀
Value: with coupons/sales, I was able to purchase the tracker for under $40. I feel the tracker itself is well-made and a good value. I’ve been recommending it to friends and they are enthusiastic.
All in all, the Tractive Cat Mini has met and even exceeded expectations on just about every front. My cat is happier, gets more exercise and I am 1000% more relaxed during his absences knowing I can locate him any time I need to. I highly recommend this product for worried pet parents. Please keep working on development to decrease tracker size/weight without losing too much battery capacity, add live tracking to safe area, and beef up rubber encasement attachment. Then it will be absolutely perfect!
The big guy and I thank you, Tractive. This was just what we needed!
EDY –
Los pros:
Es un gps que no tiene barreras de alcance puesto que el chip es de pago (como plan de renta), te enseña diversas opciones como el historial, pasos caminados, en donde se encuentra en esos momentos, puedes poner límites de lo que te sientes seguro de que se aleje tu animalito.
La contra:
El pago es anual (no hay opción mensual)
La funda de silicona solo duró 3 días para que se empezara a abrir un poco pero viene otra de plástico aunque no me da mucha confianza porque es totalmente visible el aparato.
Si tienen los medios para pagarlo vale la pena, todavía no encuentro el repuesto de silicona.
Alicia Benitez –
After 2 days of use, it got lost in the ‘power saving zone’ near the house, which means it goes to sleep and will not track. The buttons on the app became greyed out, so I could not use Radar Tracking or make it beep.
Very frustrating experience. After a week of trying, the app showed the battery had died.
Tech support is slow… it seems to be one person who is overwhelmed with emails.
This product cost me over 250.00 for the tracker plus a year’s subscription. The subscription includes replacements, but YOU have to pay the shipping.