Dog GPS trackers?

[ryanhull]

Hey All,

We are shortly going to be moving house to a more rural area, I was looking into getting two GPS trackers on each of my goldens as they do like to make a dash for it given an opportunity... I am initially wondering if any of you guys have any of these and what model is good to get if any?

I have seen http://www.lazada.co.th/imported-mini-a8-security-global-locator-finder-real-time-car-kids-pet-gps-tracker-black-959543.html which looks ok but upon further research I am seeing alot saying they do not work too well, any of you guys know of a decent pet GPS tracker I can buy in Thailand online?

Also, I know each tracker takes a sim card, do I need to ensure each sim has an active data package? also do they need charging often?

Cheers

[BKKdreaming]

do they make them like a phone where you can turn on the mic and tell your dogs to come home ?

or with a buzzer ? or turn on the camera ?

I would think the cheap ones just use the GPS and send it to your phone so you can see it on Google maps.

Let us know what you find out

[JohnC]

Can you not get a micro chip installed by a vet that allows you to track them?

[ryanhull]

do they make them like a phone where you can turn on the mic and tell your dogs to come home ?

or with a buzzer ? or turn on the camera ?

I would think the cheap ones just use the GPS and send it to your phone so you can see it on Google maps.

Let us know what you find out

You certainly can do that with the mic, how affective it would be with my dogs I do not know, they dont listen at the best of times heh... the idea is you text the device SOS and it gives you a google map location reply to your phone. I am just wondering how good they are and how often you need to charge the batteries etc, kind of pointless if you need to keep charging them up in my opinion. I will let you know anyway as I am going to order one,

Can you not get a micro chip installed by a vet that allows you to track them?

I doubt it really, it would need to be a GPS device which would require a sim card etc, highly doubt a vet here would place one inside a dog but I might be wrong, I think the micro chip you are referring too is for when they are picked up by a vet and scanned, in the UK most dogs are micro chipped but I dont think that type of system is in action in Thailand certainly not in sticks.

[ryanhull]

There are trackers and loggers.

A tracker records the track, but to read it out you need to have the thing in your hands. They have a long battery time, (up to one week) and are very small and cheap. I tried a few for our dogs, but, they lost them, or they just stopped working after a while. The good thing is that I learned that our dogs have more or less the same route. So we were able to find them. (about 50 km a day, using our house as a center point, but do net get closer then about 200 meters back home, and are never further than 2km from the house.

Also surprising to see is that in 24 hours, they hardly stop moving, and they do not run.

Later I tried trackers, faced a lot of problems, not waterproof, big, short battery life time. Lot of Data usage This all against the specs given.

Good luck!

Hey thanks for the info, which model did you get and where from? I just need a way of finding my dog IF they get lost, I doubt I will have to use it but incase of an emergency and they run off into the next village etc it would be good to know where they are, I am not so much interested in tracking them etc unless they are lost.

Cheers

[BKKdreaming]

put a dog collar on them with your phone number and maybe address

they have things like this for childrens backpacks which are probably decent quality

but you will need to charge them every night just like a mobile phone ,

I have somewhere around here an electronic dogtag where you record a message and whoever finds your dog can press the button and hear the message , the battery would only be used when it is playing and last a long time......

or put a barrel around the neck like Saint Bernard dogs , and say return dog get free refill !

[BKKdreaming]

How about another way , basically a cell phone that is always on , you can call it and if you hear it ring if the dog is close

or you can track it on your computer / phone with an android app on the dogs "phone"

a phone will have many days of stand-by , at least in the USA all cell phones ( even cheap ones) must have GPS so emergency services can find you.....