[berkes]

Are there any god GPS trackers for cats that people would advice?

The article mentions nothing about the setup or tech, and I'd love to find out what my cats are up to before they come home with another rabbit or bird (probably sleeping).

[moehm]

I've actually had a tracker from Tractive for my cat for a year. It works.. okay-ish? Well enough?

It lost connection pretty regular, probably because she crawled thru some bushes or undergrowth. The battery lasted only 1 day, so every day we needed to catch her (In summer she doesn't come home except for maybe 1 hour a day or so?) and recharge the collar. The battery is not removable, so you have to take the whole collar from the cat and put it on again later. This was pretty annoying and we definitely got some scratches from her.

Though now I have a KML file with over 1mm data points, so this is very cool. But in the end the battery capacity was annoying and the daily recharge was too much of a hassle, so we didn't renewed our subscription.

They seem to have a new tracker generation, maybe the battery problem is already fixed? I don't know.

[Traubenfuchs]

It does.

> To answer this, I contacted Tractive, manufacturers of GPS trackers for cats and dogs.

[xkcd-sucks]

I'm prototyping a very small LoRa tracker because I don't want to pay for cell service and commercial lora trackers are too large. However it is more for tracking itself as the cat removes its collar at every opportunity

[alphanumeric0]

I've had a pretty good experience with Pawtrack (https://pawtrack.com/). It's the smallest tracker I've found.

[ourcat]

How about an Apple Air Tag on a collar?

[implements]

They’re not very ‘fine grained’, and only show last known location rather than a way-pointed path. Handy for finding a lost pet, though.