Works great and perfect size. First of all, I really like this tracker. I live in rural country area and it works as intended. Only regret I have is the color brown. It looks more gray and a colored like an engorged wood tick on her neck. Definitely wish I would have got the color black. But that’s just cosmetic and really not a big deal. Just wanted to point that out in case you can’t decide on what color. lolSometimes it doesn’t pick up as soon as my dog leaves the “safe zone” but I’m surrounded by trees and buildings. That can infer with tracking but it does let me know as soon as it has connection and it’s been a life saver. I’m able to locate my dog and get her back into the yard if she wonders off to far.The wellness feature has been nice too. It’s been helpful to see her activity level and see how she compares to other local dogs. That’s been a neat feature. Also see how well she sleeps at night. Really like that.When I first went to set up my account it looked like I could only sign up for 1 year subscription. But they do offer month to month, which I wanted to test how well it worked in my area before I paid for a full year. I will be updating to a full year now I see how well it works.Battery life has been great! As long as my dog spends most of the time in her “safe zone” it hardly uses any battery. I charge it about once a week because we do go on a lot of walks outside of the safe zone.Photo is of the tracker charging. Very easy to charge and connects well. Doesn’t take that long to charge, which is nice.The tracker size on a husky is perfect! Love the notifications. One morning she got out and I would have had no idea but I got a notification she was out of the safe zone. Located her immediately!I would definitely recommend giving this tracker a try. The extra $$ for the subscription has been worth the peace of mind. You can always try a month and see how well it works in your area. I don’t usually write reviews but I searched endlessly on what tracker to get and I’m so happy I bought this one. It’s affordable and works! Wanted to share my experience in hope it helps someone else.

O produto é muito bem feito e seu aplicativo é muito bem polido. Mesmo com um preço elevado em reais e a necessidade de uma assinatura em dólar, a sensação de segurança para mim valeu cada centavo. A bateria entra em modo de economia perto do wi-fi da casa e dura bem. No modo GPS, quando sai da área de segurança, o consumo é bem alto e dura em torno de um dia no máximo, mas é o suficiente para você encontrar o animal perdido nesse tempo. O aplicativo me surpreendeu, muito bem polido e funcional. É um produto de alta qualidade, e valeu muito para me sentir seguro caso meus animais fujam.

A good tracker at reasonable price for keeping track of my dog. For normal use it has fairly good battery life, but updates location a bit infrequently. There is a ‘live’ mode which updates really regularly and has been great to locate my dog when he has run off unexpectedly. (Best to turn this function on before the dog disappears if you have a suspicion it might happen since it can take over a minute to switch to ‘live’ and may fail and if the dog runs off while it is searching for the link he can get quite far before it connects, and if it fails you have a tracker only updating maybe every 10 or 15 minutes.)
The tracker is okay for size for a medium sized dog (and presumably for bigger) – but uncomfortable to wear the whole day. It clearly limits the positions the dog can sleep comfortably in. Thus it makes sense to use the tracker only while outdoors. This is where the app runs into problems. When we first got the tracker the app worked better. Now it keeps telling me we need to use the tracker regularly to get any data. We have used it almost every day for over a year – but not for 24 hours a day. So it appears to think the data is only relevant for 24 h a day use. Leaves a negative feeling every time you use the app. In addition, one used to be able to see walk or activity duration not only for the current day, but also for the previous week. Now, you might get the information for the current day (though can take hours to update and does not always get it right), but if you want to check the previous day you have to scroll through all the months since you first started using the tracker to find recent data. A waste of time, so one just stops checking. Therefore no benefit. I have not checked the website recently – so it may be that this feature is still available from the web, as opposed to from the app. And then there is the mapping of where we’ve been when in normal mode. This can have huge gaps (worst I think is an update every half hour, so just joining the dots between 3 points you’ve walked to and forget about noting any circuitous routes or interesting pathways). I use a human sports tracking app also and the distances that the tracker measures for the dog are almost always shorter than those for the human, up to about 25% less. The sports tracker matches what my bicycle GPS indicates, so I’m guessing it is the dog tracker that is not representative. It can also under-represent the time spent on the walk by up to about 15 minutes. Would be nice to know how it calculates this. How long does a sniffing pause need to be to turn off the activity detection? 15 seconds 30 seconds? My dog is in movement 95% of our walking time almost every walk, with the exception of very short sniffing times, so I don’t understand where we lose time.
However, the bottom line is this – I invested in this tracker for emergency situations so that I can find my dog if he does run off. All the other stuff would be nice bonuses, but the fact they aren’t working well does not mean the tracker is not doing its job. I think this is important to remember and from this perspective I think this tracker offers good value for money.

A friendly FYI that the dimensions on the dog tracker are the exact same as the cat tracker. I know this as the cat one was out of stock everywhere when I needed to purchase one. It was either wait and have no ability to track my new farm cat or get the dog one and use that same day. The reason why I purchased through Amazon versus the actual company’s site was it allowed for me to receive it the very same day versus waiting a week or more for it to arrive.

Supposedly, they have released a new cat tracker based on cat specific needs but I have not seen any great detail into why it is better than using the dog one in a cat. The tracker goes around the collar with silicone type loops which secure on the other side via a hook type fastener. There are two of these. I did make sure to get a collar for the cat which was an elastic type not a breakaway type so that she would not be able to loose the collar or tracker easily. After several months of daily hard use, it has not come off one time.

I have another high dollar tracker for my dog that requires a subscription such as this one does. It’s battery lasts unbelievably long compared to the Tractive one. The dog is way more active than the cat so in fact the battery of the other one if on a this same cat would last 10 times longer than Tractive does. The Tractive collar seems to charge more quickly than the other company’s tracker. I am not fond of the magnetic type charging cable for Tractive as I prefer either one to go into a slot or a base for the tracker to sit on to charge (like the other company has). The magnetic charging cable for Tractive is super easy to accidentally disconnect which is a problem if it is not charged fully when it occurred and you need it charged fully right then.

In order to prevent the cat from being lost, I have to lock it up every evening in the barn and charge the collar so that when morning comes the collar is 100% and the cat is safe for the day with me knowing exactly where she is at all times. If I did not do this it would be what I would call too risky as the collar is placed at 100% battery on the cat at 5 am. The cat spends almost all day sleeping in one spot or walking a very small distance in the barn. She is not out roaming about. When nighttime comes, she is more active and goes hunting in the field. This is around 7 pm when she becomes active and when I go from getting one notification of her moving in an hour to multiple notifications a minute sometimes. By 11 pm, if she is not placed inside and the collar put on the charger, her collar is anywhere from 40 to 60% battery. To me, a drop of 5 to 10% or more an hour with her at that charged amount, would not allow me to actually locate her if she did not come back to the barn on her own or if she had gotten hurt somewhere. By 5 am, her collar would be dead or close to it unless she went completely inactive again. As I said, too risky for me.

Even on wifi or attached to my phone’s Bluetooth, where it is not using 100% LTE/mobile network, the battery does not last as long as the other company’s collar. The products are roughly similar sized, and if anything the other company’s actual tracker is smaller.

The thing that I love about this company versus the other I have for the dog is that the geofences are able to be set up as you want them. You can set up however many you want, have good zones that they’re fine being in, not so great zones/caution zones that you want to be notified that they are no longer in their spots, and no go zones/danger zones where they should not be and need to know so you can retrieve. They can be circle shaped, rectangle shaped or custom shaped zones. With the other company I only have an option of circles which means there’s like a zillion and they’re only good zones. They all have to overlap to make them fit and it is not feasible to deal with.

Second thing that I love about Tractive versus the other company’s collar is the options I am given to use the tracker with different features. I can turn on a light (can select color) so they can be spotted at night easier, then on sound (even though I have a very hard time hearing it even after the tech department changed the sound type remotely for me), use a locator beacon on the app which tells me hot/cold version of me getting to the animal, and best of all use AR (augmented reality) where u see what the animal is seeing. When you have a pet you cannot find, seeing what they see is amazing! If they’re under a bush staring at you, but they are camouflaged where you cannot see them, switch to AR and you see your feet in that example and voila! You have your animal!

As far as the app perks, they are very similar to the other company’s app. The subscription plans are about the same with both replacing damaged or lost trackers depending on the subscription you get. If you have an animal who is either an escape artist or allowed to roam, or one who you leave with sitters a lot, then the cost is minimal and you should not bat an eye at it. The amount of time and fried nerves this has prevented me from getting is priceless.

The tech support is great. They have always responded quickly and thoroughly to any of my needs. I do like that the other company’s app allows social media type interactions with other pet parents worldwide and in my area who I friend. This would be great for those looking for similar peeps in their area or an area they are traveling to for walks and play dates. Their tech support is not as quick or thorough as Tractive.

I would love if both companies would combine into one company as then everyone would get exactly what they need.

I will say one more thing about Tractive. I did lose the cat one night after she had been allowed to roam out of the barn after her adjustment period. She had not come to the barn at her normal time, had not moved from her spot when I called her, and continued to stay in that spot. I thought she was either hurt or had lost the collar. I went in search of her as I knew exactly where the tracker was at. I got there and could not find her anywhere. I was right on top of the spot but no signs of the tracker or her collar at all. Finally, I heard a faint meow and thought she must be under brush and hurt. But she was not. I did not know that the altitude was not automatically turned on in the app at that time. Had I know. That was a feature as I was new to it all, I would have used it. Ten minutes later I located her over 25 feet up in a massive tree. It made sense as I had seen her tracking path from the back of my neighbors house to where she was at and how quickly she had moved. Since she was new to me as well, I did not know she was a cat who liked trees. None of my other 20+ cats in my lifetime have gone up a tree. She’s the first. She’s a hunter and now I know she goes up trees to get into bird’s nests as I watch her daily do. That night just after midnight I found her in the tree for the first time. Had I known of the altitude I would have known to turn it on and could’ve immediately known she was in a tree versus getting scratched up by briars and covered in ticks trying to find her. Had I not had the tracker I would not have known she had been scared to death by something and went up the tree and could’ve been lost forever or days at least. But with the tracker I eventually found her, thought I was going to have to wait forever for her to come down, but she backed her little self right on down out of the tree like a bear would. Good kitty! After that evening I did investigate and learn more about what all Tractive offers as features in the event I needed them again. Do make sure to familiarize yourself before you get in a not so great situation like I did.

UPDATE 2023 AUGUST:

Well after purchasing at least 5 of these in order to get a new charging cable as needed immediately due to the inadequate design and poor workmanship on the one that came with the collar, I am now screwed out of spending the extra couple bucks to get new cable by buying new tracker to have the same day or overnight. The original charging cables worked up to 6 months. Usually more like 3 months and the little metal prongs that move somewhat on the charger would break. Sometimes just one but usually both in quick succession if not at the same time. I had the last charging cable break and ordered a collar as my usual routine only to have it arrive and discover that the charging cable is completely different design.

I think that it’s only appropriate and fair that Tractive give all of us who have a subscription with the old tracker design a new tracker since we are allowed 1 or 2 replacements under the Tractive service contract depending on the length of our contract is the number of replacements. After all it’s their faulty design and inability to follow suggestions from customers or give a solution to those of us who have had major issues. I don’t know if others had this problem as they may not have to charge theirs daily as I do with my 2 paid subscription trackers. Mine have to be charged daily as my cat travels within an acre radius of her home base aka my equestrian center. Yet within that acre she travels an average of 2 to 3 miles DAILY between her turnout time of 5 am to lock up time at 9 pm. She eats up the battery as in the move and wifi isn’t within that acre. So it’s Bluetooth on my phone (doesn’t use as much battery) or using the cellular service on the tracker which also eats battery. When she’s locked up at 9 pm in the barn the collar is removed and charged as anywhere from 40 to 60% remaining. Yes, I have tried making it another day, but it’s dead well before 9 pm even if turned off over night when locked in barn. Plus I have horrendous luck most of the time and should she go astray of her typical area, I don’t want 40% or less on the collar and trying to find her in live mode using the cellular service as it is a dead battery before she’s located. This has happened more than once now.

I was pleasantly shocked and super excited to see that another company is making the old charger style and selling on Amazon. It is not same or next day shipping (at least not for me and not yet), but it’s a much higher quality charging cable and significantly longer than the original Tractive one. Here’s the link if it shows up: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C2XSQ9LH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Llevo 4 meses usando el dispositivo DIARIAMENTE y puedo decir que el producto es de excelente calidad y uno de los mejores en el mercado, (al menos a mi experiencia).Aquí mis pros, contras y consejos:Pros:-Tiene dos modos que te brinda la ubicación de tu mascota: “Live/Tiempo real” y cada cierto tiempo (15 o 30 min). Y la ubicación es exacta!! El 100% de las veces.-No hay mucha info sobre esto, pero la app es increíble. Puedes ver en tiempo real dónde está tu mascota, su historial de paseos, su calidad del sueño, cuántas calorías ha quemado en el día, incluso puedes agregar a “amigos pet” que usan igual la app.-Puedes agregar en la app a un grupo de personas para que al igual que tú, puedan rastrear y monitorizar a tu mascota, (puede ser de manera temporal o indefinida, tú eliges) Familia y amigos o paseadores, entrenadores, etc.-La pila dura un día entero o dos. Claro, también depende del uso que le des, el modo “live/tiempo real” gasta pila. Pero en general, si dura mucho más tiempo a comparación de otros GPS.-El dispositivo es resistente a rasguños o golpes y sigue sirviendo perfectamente.-Los agarradores de goma son resistentes si los tratas con cuidado y los atoras en un collar en el cual no se estiren mucho.-En el dispositivo se encuentra una pequeña luz led y desde la app puedes encenderla, esa función podría servirte si sales a pasear con tu mascota de noche y quieres distinguirla en la oscuridad.Contras:-El cable tiene un falso contacto, tenemos que maniobrar el cable para que pueda cargar.-La entrada del cargador y su cable no son muy amigables, ya que sus entradas son bastante “especiales”, (pueden verlo en la tercera foto). No puedes conseguirlos en otro lugar que no sea Tractive.-Tractive no vende artículos por separado, si quieres comprar únicamente un cable de reposición, una funda luminiscente, etc. no se puede, su tienda online no te permite hacerlo, ya que aparece como “descatalogado permanentemente” al menos así ha estado por 4 meses. Tal vez es algo que Tractive debe de arreglar en su página, pero hasta ahora eso es un problema.Consejos:-No apaguen el dispositivo! Gasta más pila pero al apagarlo se pierde la señal del GPS y tarda horas o un día en volver a recuperarla.-Cuando salimos a pasear, activo antes el modo “live/tiempo real”, ya que si se escapa, para agarrar la ubicación en tiempo real puede tardar o 10 seg o 1 min (varía el tiempo) pero son segundos muy valiosos.-El dispositivo no lo tengo conectado a mi wifi.A considerar:-Tengo el plan “worldwide” es uno de los más costosos pero vale la pena al 100%. Incluso puedes monitorizar a tu perrito estando desde el otro lado del mundo y eso es una gran satisfacción estando tan lejos de casa.-Mi perrita es un American Staffordshire Terrier de 26 kilos, el dispositivo no es tan grande para ella a comparación de otras razas como un Chihuahua, Pomeranian o u Yorkshire Terrier. (Pueden ver el tamaño en la segunda foto, el iPhone es un 11 pro max).-El dispositivo igual es un poco pesado para razas pequeñas.-Yo no dejó salir a mi perrita sola, por lo que no tengo la “valla virtual” activada, pero he leído bastante que esa función tiende a fallar a veces.EN CONCLUSIÓN;El producto tiene algunas cosas en las que podría mejorar, sin embargo, con base a mi experiencia son más los pros que los contras por lo que mi calificación final después de 4 meses es: 9/10Espero mi reseña les haya servido a ustedes y a sus mascotas.