Tractive GPS Dog Tracker | Real-time Pet Location Tracker | Health & Wellness Alerts | Virtual Fence for Dogs | Dog Collar Attachment (Dark Blue)

I can’t believe this thing was only $35 and service is $13 or less per month. This device is exactly what I was looking for for my adventurous teenage (10 mo) vizsla girl. My 3 yo boy has always been reliable about staying within an approved range of my semi-rural, fenceless house, and I’d hoped my little female would just stick with him. Turns out she’s a bit more adventurous and has even emboldened him to venture farther and not check in as often as he’s accustomed to. Recently, although they’re welcome at my one neighbor’s yard they now go to on their own to play with her dog, little Wren has been seen too many times venturing out into the increasingly busy road off her fenceless yard. With this tracker, I’m now able to set up ranges on my property I’m comfortable with them roaming on their own, and I get alerts whenever they go too far towards the busy road, cross into unapproved neighboring properties, or even go to visit the approved neighbor. Now I can retrieve Wren without my neighbor having to ask or give her rides home, or I can at least go supervise that they stay within the safe boundaries of her yard. I no longer have to wonder what they’re up to or that they’re staying on my land (which I’m finding out they usually are; good doggies). I can focus on my work, and they don’t have to be fenced or tethered and can just be dogs doing their doggy things together. I also worried about them constantly this spring as the ice on the lake was thawing. I can’t watch them all the time or keep them locked up inside the whole time, but I knew they were going way out onto the thinning ice. I was so worried they’d fall in. Now I have safe alert boundaries set up that I can turn on in the spring and off the rest of the year that will alert me if they go onto the ice.The tracker is so accurate to such a small range, it’s fascinating to check in on them and view the history of her movements. She’s busy (see scribbly photo of zoomed in movements with heat spots where she spent more time)! However, as other reviewers have pointed out, the smallest virtual fence range is indeed larger than the average urban yard, so I think it will not be what you’re looking for if you live in town and want to know if your dog goes just next door.I wasn’t sure how well it would work at my friend’s property when he watched them for the day, as he lives further up in the mountains with not great cell coverage (first picture), but it worked a treat all day. I kept checking in on her (for fun) throughout the day when I was away in another city, and was amused to see where all she went around his property.I’m also finding the battery to be long lasting, whether they spend the day in or out of my Wi-Fi range. I don’t usually have need to turn on live tracking, which it says can cause the battery to drain more quickly. I have used it a couple times, but only for a minute or so. It works well and i didn’t notice the battery draining suddenly or anything. I charge my cell phone every day just as a matter of course. I was prepared to do the same with the tracker, but I’m finding I only actually need to charge it about once per week.It seems to be very durable too. I’m not sure if she’s dunked it yet, but I know she and her brother have splashed around in the creek with it. She’s also not used to wearing her harness full time now, so she’s tried rubbing it off against things, without success. It has a couple scratches on it now, but hasn’t phased it. It’s super easy for me to get it off and on the harness (for charging), but so far it’s stayed put despite her best efforts. A+I did find it took a little poking around to get to the $13/monthly offer in the app (which itself I found to be simple enough to set up), but when I saw that you get a 30-day free trial if you sign up for the longer options anyway, that was good enough for me and so I went for the yearly subscription which is the better value. And it turned out I was super pleased with the service right away and will be very happy to keep it now.I really love this tracker. It’s such an excellent value for what they provide and for me personally the peace of mind is priceless.

Considerations:1. I suggest replacing this item yearly, because of battery life. After about a year, the battery would drain very quickly when using the "Live" tracking feature to try and find my damn husky in the woods, when we were in 2-3 bar cell range. In 45 minutes, it went from 95% to under 60%. But that was partly because of the issues in comment 2. But realistically, it's not a surprise the batteries carry less of a charge after being on for 365/24/7, even in "Safe Zones" where it uses less energy.2. Because it uses cell phone networks, this device works good in town but the "Live" feature may lag when in the woods or in areas where cell phone signals are less powerful. On a recent hike where my husky went on an adventure on the edge or town but behind a mountain, there was no "Live" update when he was in a small canyon or deep trees. So it goes. When we returned home and I pulled the hike up on the app map, it showed where he had been, but the "Live" tracking wasn't quite Live.Praise:Battery life other than when tracking "Live" is great. When 90% of time is spent at home in a Zone, the battery takes a week to fall below 85%.Being able to set up to 5 Fence Zones is wonderful, and it's pretty easy to change them. I have mine set for Home/Brother/Mom/Sister. The best part of setting Zones is that if you travel, you can set a Fence Zone for your hotel or Airbnb wifi AND THE BATTERY WON"T DRAIN OUT if you forget to charge the device. That's important because it's easy to forget to charge it when traveling but you don't want your dog to run off and find out there is 40% charge.I bought a second charger just for travel, after turning around 45 minutes from home on a two-week road trip where I wanted to make sure I could track.