Cat Tracker - Small and Lightweight Waterproof Bluetooth Pet Collar Attachment, 328 Foot Range, Replaceable 6 Month Battery Life, Android/Apple iOS Compatible

I did two weeks of internet research to find a pet tracker. I highly recommend this Cat Tailer! It is better than any other tracking device I have seen for cats. My cat "Miyu" is strictly an indoor cat. She constantly finds new hiding places in the house which means it can take me up to 20 minutes to locate her when I need to take her to the vet or elsewhere. I have had the Cat Tailer has immediately eliminated this problem. It is a very sensible and effective device for tracking my cat. All of the trackers I looked at are marginally practical for dogs, but impractical and too big for a cat. Most GPS trackers have only a few days of battery life. That worries me because it is most likely that a pet will get lost just when the tracking device is almost out of battery charge. It is not practical or convenient to have to pay a monthly fee, and have to re-charge a tracking device every night or every week unless you are doing special scientific studies on animal behavior! I just want my cat back... not track her through the neighborhood for a few days! The Cat Tailer and its battery is a simple set-up and forget device. I can tell by the battery meter on my phone that it has a long time to go before I have to replace the battery. And that is a comfort to me. As to the accuracy of the distance, well, my advice is that you have to learn how to use it for your situation. It is not a measuring device... it is an active distance averaging device. The Cat Tailer gives you a general idea of where your cat is by measuring how frequent and far it is moving from your point. It is a behavioral motion monitor, and you have to learn how to interpret the behavior in terms of distance read-out pattern to find your cat. That is not a hard thing to learn to do. People who wrote negative reviews about the inaccuracy of the distance and that the distance numbers jump around when the cat is in one place, etc. do not understand the nature of how radio signal propagation works. The radio design is a simple raw signal emitted by the Cat Tailer as a “ping" that by nature "echoes" as it hits structures in the environment. It is like the wind. You have to ignore the frequent variations in the numbers, be patient, and watch the pattern of highs and lows, and interpret how it works. Once you establish a pattern of how the Cat Tailer operates in your environment, then you will understand how to use it to fit your needs. In the past week, I have always located my cat... no more time consuming "hide and seek" with Miyu! If she ever escaped outdoors, then I know the battery charge is strong enough to find her in a few days if necessary. Here is some advice: The Cat Tailer should be taped with a strip of electrical tape directly around the collar (in addition to its fastening ring) to prevent it from hanging down below the neck! It makes it a neater part of the collar by not banging into food and water bowls. Miyu did not like the hanging pod. Also, I think the flashing light can be useful, but watch to see if it disturbs the cat when sleeping, because it is quite bright when it flashes. If Miyu needs to hide, the light could tip off a predator as to where she is and attack her. I prefer to keep it off for now. So, Ambystoma Labs, The Cat Tailer is well done in design and practicality! While a few people said it was overpriced, I think it is worth what you pay for it when you consider the benefits the Cat Tailer's solid and simple design and reliability brings, and what it ultimately delivers... your cat back to you alive, safe, and healthy!

This is one of my favorite purchases in years. Before I purchased the Cat Tailer I was a bit hesitant to buy one because of some of the negative reviews. Some mentioned they got completely inaccurate readings and it wouldn’t help them locate their cat. This had me concerned because I wanted something that was actually really reliable for our cat. I didn’t want to believe I could track him and then if he actually went missing I couldn’t find him at all. So Once I got it on our outdoor cat, I started testing the things people had said. The first thing I noticed is that the distance reading is very much an estimate and it bounces back and forth even if your cat is still. Another thing that hinders the trackers ability to estimate your distance from your cat is objects that are between you and your cat. Realistically, especially where I live, the tracker has about a max distance of 200ft. But this is around my house, so naturally if he’s in the shed out back and I’m in my bedroom 150ft away, a lot of things are going to be blocking the signal. But even then it still manages to give a somewhat accurate estimate of how far away he is. It’s amazing! So far I have managed to track his exact location a handful of times and I always know if he’s around the house outside or if he wandered down the street. I’ve also learned a lot about his habits. Now I know that most of the time he hangs out around the house. This gave me peace of mind because now I know he’s not traveling around the neighborhood all of the time. This thing is amazing, seriously. Once you get past the worry that it may be too big or heavy on your cat (which it isn’t IMO) this thing is great. For me it has been 100% reliable in locating our cat. The only reason I didn’t give it the full 5 stars is because the notifications that your cat has left or entered the visibility range are pretty late. (about 15 to 20 minutes) It’s still a useful feature but if the notification delay was shorter this would be a perfect product. Thank you so much for helping us always know where our cat is!

Don’t expect gps quality tracking, that would require too much battery life. Instead these rely on Bluetooth pings to sort of guess where your cat is based on the quality of the Bluetooth signal strength. So if there are walls or obstacles that will obstruct the signal, it would appear as if your cat is much further away than they really are. With that said it’s not accurate, but does a great job at helping you find your cat if they’re lost. It’s good to know that if your cat goes missing, you can walk around your neighborhood with the app open hoping to get some kind of signal that’ll help pinpoint your cats location, instead of looking around blindly calling their name shaking a bag of treats. It really is a game changer. It won’t tell you where your cat specifically is, and since the tracking isn’t super accurate you’ll have to walk around until the distance gets smaller. Though it takes more time to find your cat compared to a typical gps tracker, you’ll more than likely find them. I havent been in a situation where I couldn’t locate my cats with this product. Battery life lasts as advertised, about 6 months, compared to a more expensive gps tracker that lasts about a day. You can find 12 packs of the required batteries for like 10$ on Amazon. They do get dirty and you’ll want to clean them when you change the battery. I suggest using the casing that comes with it too, to help prevent water and other substances from getting inside. It does tend to dip in water or food bowls so keep that in mind. You can get one for multiple cats and track each one individually with the app, it’s pretty cool and worth the investment, especially if you’re worried about your cat going missing one day. I love my cats, and would be devastated if I couldn’t find them, so this purchase was a no brainer and I’m glad these work as well as they do.

My cat is old and we've turned him into an indoor only cat. He still tries to get out every chance he has. Since he was catnapped once already by a well meaning cat lady in the neighborhood, we ordered this. pros: the battery is always charged. It is supposed to last up to 6 months as opposed to gps trackers which are more accurate and cover distance but need constant charging. the chances of my cat escaping on the day his device was all charged and ready just defies murphy's law. So this tracker solves that issue. It also has a little blinking light that lets you know it's working. The light can be easily turned off if you find it annoying. The app also allows you to check battery. I use the light. I figure, if the collar falls off as breakaways tend to, it could help me locate it in the dark as well as the cat pressuming the collar is on. It is lightweight, quiet and doesn't seem to bother him at all. I have been able to locate him a few times when he was very close and we thought he'd escaped. Turned out he was curled up in a closet. Another time he was heading up the street to a favorite hangout where people feed outdoor strays. I was able to intercept him. cons: it isn't very accurate. As you stare at the screen while using the app, the distance will jump all over the place, from 30ft away to 135 feet, meanwhile the cat is sleeping and hasn't even moved. The same issue occurs while using the alert feature. This is supposed to tell you when your cat is leaving the preset range which is simply near or far. However, my phone is constantly dinging telling me he's leaving. Again, he's just sleeping. In both these situations, I am also not moving. It makes that feature totally useless because I will just ignore it now. The device will only help you locate your cat if you know where he might already be. If a passer by takes your cat to a different neighborhood, out of the zone, you won't be able to find them unless you are walking around close enough for it to ping. Of course they tell you this up front. But I am bringing it up anyway because of my biggest gripe: the price. It's way too expensive for what it is. The tags they make for kids are cheaper and have better tracking on the app. I can't see the justification for the high cost. The parts and technology and limited accuracy don't warrant that price tag. It feels a little predatory, taking advantage of a pet owners' love for their pet. We'd pay anything not to lose our babies, right? But this tag only eases my mind somewhat. As far as the app, it would be nice to see two dots moving closer together or futher apart as you approach your cat or walk in the wrong direction rather than numbers jumping around. If you are frantic in your search that makes it all the more frustrating. It also should have a place on the tag to add the cat's info: name, phone and address. Instead, they largely display the logo. Let's focus on the point of the device for a moment: Getting pets safely back home. The company has already made their money, why not make it so we can write our pet's name on it? Many of us don't want to have multuple tags clanging around their pets neck, especially if they are outdoors where dogs or coyotes might be drawn to the sound. I went ahead and put a small round label and wrote his info on it and covered in clear packing tape. It will need to be redone, but works for now. A printable or write on tag would solve that. I'll be checking for updates. I appreciate that this product is made by a small business and that there was a hand signed thank you in the box. Hopefully my feedback helps improve the product. I really want it to work as best as possible. :)

I’ve been using Cat Tailer for well over a year. Our cat is 13, about 7 pounds, partially blind, and has no homing instinct. She gets lost a house away plus we have 36 acres of woods around our home. Until we got Cat Tracker she would get lost for 3-4 days, several times a season. It took a toll on her health. Our small cat needed a lightweight tracker. At the same time we ordered Cat Tailer, we also ordered a live tracker collar system to compare and see which we wanted to keep. The Live Tracker was larger and heavier we ended up returning it. We could have lived with the size but it kept losing the signal in the woods and in the valleys. Cat Tailer won the comparison. It was also the smallest lightest tracker we could find. It’s not live time but we have come to rely on this little unit. It tracks by Bluetooth. We have had to traverse woods and backyards. We live in the deep woods - scrub, trees and over-growth has not been a problem. The only time two times we had an MIA issue was when she wiggled out of the collar (check the tightness weekly) and once when she had crawled inside a tree (block all tree holes!). The tracker kept saying she was 8 meters from me, yet I couldn’t see her! LOVE this tracker! The battery lasts just about six months to the day. The light turned red; I changed the battery. It was easy! Recently, I started having an issue with the tracker. Thinking it was the app, I emailed Richard my problems. We discussed the issues and he immediately sent a replacement via airmail. Customer service was personal and incredible! When the tracker arrived, he had not sent one but an extra as well. We could not live without this tracker! You need to be aware that this, like any device, is not 100% fool proof. But it’s the best we’ve tried AND I’ll never have a cat without one!f It has saved our cat more than I care to count!

I have now purchased this product for two of my cats to attach to their collars. These cat trackers are very lightweight and comfortable for my indoor/outdoor cats, who wear them on their elastic collar, along with an ID tag, when they are roaming outside. And the app that comes with the tracking device is very easy to use, allowing me to easily add another cat and track exactly how far he is up to around 300 feet or so. I can even add a picture I’ve taken myself to go with the cat on the app. The tracker is not perfect - sometimes, for example, it will say that one of my cats is 20 feet away when he is only 5 feet away - but it is generally accurate and tells me the correct direction to walk in to find my cats roaming in the woods. It also gives me a lot of peace of mind to know that I can use these trackers to find my cats should they happen to get lost. If you are looking for a perfect product that will tell you the exact GPS coordinates of your cat at all times, well, this is not it. But then again, that product simply doesn’t exist - not for cats anyway. All the GPS trackers I found were simply way too large to be comfortable around a cat’s neck. This tracker, on the other hand, is the perfect size, and it does exactly what it says it will do. I would highly recommend it.

To be honest it’s doesn’t work will I don’t really can see his location plus it seems to be heavy for cat.At this price I would recommend to get AirTag it’s not 100% good but it better then you spend at this price and AirTag you also can play sound when your cat is nearby. I can’t remember if this product has played sound or not but it’s still not worth it .

After a year or so of use, I am satisfied enough to buy another tracker for my other cat. Once I got the hang of the Bluetooth "getting warmer/cooler" tracking, I was satisfied. But it is critical to have unobstructed Bluetooth signal for this to work properly -- and I believe that is one reason these reviews vary so widely. I've successfully changed the battery once and it is a job for small, nimble fingers (luckily mine still work). The rest of this review is from my initial purchase and I will leave it for informational purposes. I am using this to locate my cat if he doesn't come when called. He generally hangs around our flat terrain yard so it's fairly easy to home in on him -- and this works great. After more than a month of continuous use, the tracker battery is still close to 100%. The small tracking device fits into a rubber-ish holder (comes in the box) that fits neatly on his collar so it doesn't hang down or fall in his water/food bowl. The app is simple and easy to use on my iPhone SE. However, there are a couple of app functions that are supposed to work in the background -- that is, notification of when the tracker device either leaves Bluetooth range or returns to it -- or both. I was looking forward to being notified when my cat left Bluetooth range -- so I could immediately go outside and look for him before he strayed too far. Well, this doesn't work for me at all. When I contacted Cat Tailer, they responded very promptly with a thorough explanation. Here are some quotes from their reply. Note that these are isolated quotes and their reply is more detailed. But these snippets explain the gist of why I cannot make use these background functions. Cat Tailer told me that, "In order for [background functions] to work we need to run a portion of our app when your phone is asleep. Both Apple (iPhone) and Google (Android) severely restrict what we can do in the background and how often." "On Android we still have fairly good availability to background activity. On Android we only need to wait 6 minutes before we are fairly sure the Cat Tailer wasn’t nearby. Similarly on Android, we will normally notify within 1 to 2 minutes when the Cat Tailer comes back in range." "On iPhone, Apple gives us largely zero control over how often we can look for a Cat Tailer." "Currently Apple specifies that they will look for Bluetooth devices like Cat Tailer every 10 to 15 minutes. Because the phone might not see the Cat Tailer on that one peek every 10 to 15 minutes we wait a full 30 minutes before reporting that a Cat Tailer is out of range. For an in range notification and your phone deeply asleep you can expect it to notify within 10 to 15 minutes. If you have been regularly using your phone and it is only mildly asleep then it will report an in range within 5 minutes or so. But, out of range reporting still waits a full 30 minutes." My bottom line? I like this device and feel like it's very good quality and value for the money -- even without the background functionality. But I would have appreciated being able to find the background limitations information -- either on Amazon or on cattailer.com -- so that I could have taken it into consideration prior to purchase. It should also be referenced in the manual.

Mi gato se escondió en un lugar inaccesible bajo las escaleras del edificio donde vivo, no hacía ruido ni se movia. Si no fuera por este rastreador habría estando dando de vueltas por toda la colonia perdiendo el tiempo, porque nunca se me habría ocurrido que estaba donde estaba.

Pas trop grand et léger. Fonctionne très bien

Hello, I've thoroughly tested this tracker and here are my observations: 1. This is a Bluetooth dependant product. This means that if your cat is behind a big physical object the reading you will get will be fairly inaccurate. ie: My cat was in my neighbour's backyard, however my tracker displayed 44m when in reality the distance was more around 20m. 2. The tracker's radius works (fairly) accurately for 40m-50m in a suburban area. 3. It requires effort on your behalf to make it work the way you want to, if you spot your cat via the app you will need to find the direction it is in by walking north, east, south, west until you determine the direction your furry buddy is. In other words it's trial and error. In conclusion, if you lose your cat (with the collar equipped) this product would be perfect for determining where your cat is hiding. A walk around the neighbourhood will 100% reveal your cat's location (unless the cat is underground). The tracker is also pretty useful for when your cat wants to come back inside! It also has a bonus feature of telling you when your cat leaves the collar range or comes back inside of it. Overall, amazing product if you don't want to pay 15$/month for a paid subscription GPS tracker.

works ok it tracks our cat easy to install not very accurate off by about 10 foot

El producto Cat taller recibido NO tiene las funcionalidades que anuncian, es un fraude. No tiene el alcance que ofrecen y no despliega mapa de geolicalizacion, tampoco es verdad el rastreo por sonido.