Tractive GPS Tracker & Well being Monitoring for Cats (6.5 lbs+) – Market Main Pet GPS Location Tracker | Wellness & Escape Alerts | Waterproof | Works with Any Collar (Brown)

Tractive cat mini gps tracker
Love this product! Purchased this tracker for our 11 lb male cat who will wander into adjacent wooded areas and thru neighborhood. Can easily follow his paths and whereabouts in almost real time on our cel, and quickly find/retrieve him. As a design engineer of implantable medical products I can be overly critical, however I found the Tractive mini tracker well-designed. Is reliable, accurate, easy to use, lightweight, fits well, and purchased at a fair price. Researched trackers of other manufacturers but chose the Tractive mini after reviewing its specs, and, receiving a recommendation by a fellow cat owner who happened to use the same product this past year. I must also do a shout out to the Customer Service team as they were prompt and gracious in answering my initial questions….. Am not fond of rechargeable products nor of monthly plans but respectively, battery life has been just fine, and, the monthly fee is not much (considering the loss of a missing cat). Overall, the Tractive mini tracker certainly exceeded my expectations……a two thumbs up.

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.

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.

My favourite thing about it is how good and accurate the live tracking is & that you can add different members to be able to track. My cat is a certified escape artist and I was tired of going on 3 hour search parties for him with the apple air tag😅 now our whole family can easily find him if needed. I also like the leaderboard with all the other cute cats. The device itself even being mini is a little big , so I would definitely say if your cat is on the smaller side it might be too big. My cat is about 10 pounds & he’s a very long boy, so it works fine. But I still wouldn’t mind it being a little smaller. The size of it kinda looks like an ankle monitor, as if he’s in home jail😂 the good thing is that it’s light. The only thing I think would make it even better is if the alarm sound was a little louder, for when you’re looking for them. But overall 10/10