Tractive Smart Dog GPS Tracker with 6 Month Subscription | Live Pet Tracker with Virtual Fence | Vital Signs Monitoring of Heart & Respiratory Rate | Bark Monitoring | Dog Collar Attachment (Brown)

This tracker is amazing! It has tracked exactly where our dog is at. Once he goes outside the safe zone, it alerts us and lets us know so we can go get him. He only takes off about once a week to explore, but we don't want him getting hurt or shot so we make sure he stays in that safe zone of about 5 acres. I like that it tracks his health too. Battery has lasted about 2 weeks or so. Love it... wish we would have bought this a long time ago!

edit 8/2026 - so my first dog has has hers for over a year with thankfully no emergencies to test it out. My most reacent rescue has has his for two months and I am seriously impressed by the health tracker! A couple weeks ago, out of the blue it sent me a notification that my dog's heart rate has increased by a significant amount over the last two days, I could see that his respiration rate had also spiked and when I took his temperature it was slightly elevated. I'm not exactly sure what was wrong, but I kept close monitoring of him that day and it didn't get any worse, two days later his stats were back to normal- could've been something that his immune system was fighting off successfully but would've been invaluable information to have should I had needed to take him to the vet. I did double check taking both respiratory and heart rates manually and it was pretty accurate to what the Embark tracker showed. I kept an eye on my other dog too and she was completely fine, nothing remarkable on her own tracker health records. Like a week after that, my new rescue started scratching (allergy flare up) and I caught enough of it during the day when it was most active, but if I had been working my normal long days that week I wouldn't have any idea he was uncomfortable if it hadn't been for the tracker showing an uptick on the amount of scratching. The barking tracker is also pretty accurate, both my dog are barky in general, but whenever they have a particularly loud day it shows true on the app. So yeah, pretty impressed with this and highly recommend it! This is the kind of information that an airtag could never give you. I just wish it gave more detailed information than just a daily average. --- First day but so far so good. Was incredibly easy to attach to the collar, I was a little hesitant to order because I thought the thing that goes around the collar would be too stretchy/easy for my dog to paw it off but it’s in the pretty solidly, doesn’t feel like it might accidentally fall off. It is not bulky or heavy, my 50lb dog hasn’t noticed it at all and I think it’s small and light enough that my 16lb dog wouldn’t mind it either. The app is easy to navigate and has nice features that I’m still learning about and experimenting with. There is a Facebook group for it with an employee as one of the admins so that could come in handy if you need quick help. My one complaint is that I bought the option for the 6 month trial too and when you get to that part the screen defaults to buying a new full year subscription, you actually have to swipe the screen to the right to see the option that activates the 6 month trial. I can see how that may confuse people into thinking they’re being forced to buy a whole new subscription. Additionally, it requires a form of payment to be added to their records that will automatically charge you when the trial is over, and they’ll do a small charge to make sure the card works (it says you get the charge refunded though, it was just a bit over a dollar for me).

ANOTHER UPDATE: Unlike every other iPhone app that has in-app purchases, Tractive doesn't offer a free trial period. Silly me. I'm so comfortable purchasing from Apple's App Store, I never noticed there's no free trial. In order to connect the app, you give them a credit card #. Fine. Normal. But there's no trial period. Tractive charged $156.00 on day one. When the device turned out to be defective (and the only way to know was to activate the so-called GPS) they're like "HAHA, GOTCHA!!!' I didn't notice the charge on my credit card until a couple of months after I had purchased AND returned AND reported it was utterly useless as a tracker. I disputed the charge. They had the gall to dispute my dispute by saying my credit card was good. They sound like a 5-year-old justifying stealing candy because it was within reach at the checkout lane. They sent the bank a completely irrelevant screenshot of someone's 5-star review (not on Amazon) of a $49 cat collar, saying it was an example of a product description "presented to the cardholder before they completed the transaction. Dig a little and it turns out to be a celebrity endorsement. Had nothing to do with a 12-month subscription that must be paid before the device can be activated. Which is exactly how the App Store works, but the sub can be canceled during a trial period. And of course Amazon has a 30-day return period, even if you don't like the color. But in my case it didn't perform as claimed. Even worse: I went to purchase a Whistle Tracker, which I had several years ago. Great product, great phone service, and month-to-month cellular. Plus their site tracked the dog 24 hours showing the level of activity. (Came in handy when my neighbor accused my dog of barking for hours under his bedroom window, and the Whistle showed she was inside asleep the whole time.) Well, don't buy that either because Tractive has acquired the company. They've no doubt turned it into the same garbage as Tractive. UPDATE: TRACKER SHOWING PET IS IN HOME ZONE. IN ANOTHER NEIGHBORHOOD. SHE IS RIGHT HERE WITH ME. This gadget is worse than useless. I am returning, and purchasing a different brand. I am infuriated. They make a product for protecting pets, but this company doesn't seem to care about pets. My dog was rescued from horrific conditions. I adopted her and have been working hard to keep her safe, trained, well-fed, and treated like a family member. She's my companion and protector and I AM HERS! A week ago she figured out how to escape the gate and went on quite an excursion through the neighborhood. I had an Apple AirTag on her collar, from my deceased 16-year-old dog which was enough. But AirTags don't show in the FindMy app unless it's not moving. AirTags also need to ping off other iPhones. This is a young, strong, very active dog. After chasing her for an hour in 90º heat, I got a call from someone whom she had approached. (Putting one's phone number on the collar in big numbers is the best when you have a pet who never met a stranger. I went straight to Amazon and ordered this tracker. It arrived in about a week. I set it up yesterday. Today, she escaped again. I normally don't review until I have a lot of experience with a purchase. I live on a half acre. Apparently that's too small to create a geofence, Maybe there's a way to alter it. But I was out looking for her while the app was telling me she's safe at home. I spotted her in my next door neighbor's heavily wooded yard. Then the next yard and the next. The homeowner was just getting home and got out of the car to pick up her mail. I yelled. She spotted my dog and spoke in a friendly way, causing the dog to come to her. (Luckily she likes both dogs and humans.) However, this is not what I signed up for. There is no way except email to contact this company. Fine for most electronic gadgets, but unacceptable to find a lost pet who is in danger of getting hit by a car. There is no way to draw a geofence that is accurate and useful. Tractive is well-aware their devices are not reliable. They make their money scamming people. I disputed the charge, since I had returned the item. They disputed my dispute. I've disputed their nonsensical dispute. Update to follow. Also filing a complaint with the App Store.

So I was very unsure about this collar when I first made the purchase, especially because of the subscription, but let me just say I was incredibly wrong and it is absolutely amazing. I just recently purchased it, and my dog has only been wearing it for about 2 days now. During the 2nd day we decided to let her stay in the yard while we went out. She had gotten out, of course, and travel 8 miles without any water and in some crazy heat (104 F) and thanks to the gps feature that Tractive provides we were able to find her fairly quickly and it lead us to her exact location! So to anybody worried it’s definitely worth it, granted I am still learning how it works but as of now I’m quite grateful she has it and how well it works!😊 p.s this was in Texas hill country where you don’t always have cell service so again big thank you to the gps feature Tractive provides!

Overall, I enjoy this product and would buy again. I have three dogs that like to leave my property and visit the neighbor's farm. I bought 3 trackers with 5 year subscriptions. The sound feature is nice to alert the dogs that they've been snagged by Mommy, but it's not very loud for me to hear where they are unless they're very very close. The notifications that they left the safe zone are somewhat delayed by about 3-6 mins which is somewhat disappointing. But my dogs have learned their boundaries in just the last 2 months of using these and they rarely ever stray from the property anymore. Live track feature is nice to have a second by second update if I need to head one of them off. Battery life isn't terrible. I usually get just about a week between charges. Sunday night is usually charging night for everyone, but each tracker depletes at a different rate I've found and not entirely sure why.

I have bought 3 Tractive GPS trackers and purchased the subscriptions for 2 years. I love the GPS, they are fairly accurate and I know where my dogs are. I also like that they give me health alerts when something appears off. They have been very durable and I have not had to replace anything since I purchased them. They have been wonderful to have, and it gives me peace of mind knowing what my dogs are up to!

This Tractive device is a GREAT idea, and we're much less stressed about the whereabouts of our dog, for the most part. Here are the pros and cons: PROS: - Being able to trigger "Live" mode and track exactly where our dog is on our acreage is fantastic. - It recharges with USB-C connections, which makes it trivial to charge since we're all USB-C in our house. - The "Health" tracking is fun, including Leaderboards for groups like nearest 50 dogs with Tractives, ranking within breed, and ranking across all Tractive dogs for things like sleep and activity. CONS: - The Tractive offers a power-saving mode based on if it senses your home wifi signal. This is an interesting idea, however the issue is twofold for us: first, we went to great pains to ensure our wifi covers our entire property, and second, when the Tractive senses your home wifi and goes into power-saving mode you cannot enable live tracking unless you wait up to 20 minutes for it to do it's scheduled check-in. - If you don't use the low-power mode described in the above bullet (we don't) then battery life is not great. Ours consumes between 35%-45% every 24 hours, so we have added "charging the Tractive" to our daily device charging routine. - The stretchy strap that holds the Tractive to the collar tore within the first 3 months and we had to replace it with aftermarket straps. Note we have one dog and no kids so the Tractive wasn't being pulled/tugged by another creature, just our dog out running around by herself. - The Live Tracking fails to engage about 30%-40% of the time and we have to retry it. So far we haven't urgently needed tracking but if/when we do we're not confident in it kicking in quickly or reliably. Overall we'd rather have this device than not have it, but, man, it could be SO much better with just a few tweaks. For example, if they'd make the Live Tracking activation delay something shorter than 20 minutes when in power-saving mode that would be great - like, add middle option that extends battery life just not as much. That being said, for people with minimal wifi range the power-saving feature might work great, but for us with acreage and outdoor wifi access points it would mean that if we used power-saving mode and wanted to find our dog on our property we have to do it the old fashioned way, walking around and looking (she's deaf so we can't call her). The issues we have with the Tractive seem like things they could fix with future firmware updates, so we'll see. Bottom line is we're not sorry we bought it but we're frustrated with its limitations and cheap/shoddy straps.

I got these trackers for my two dogs, and they’ve been a game-changer. They come with a 6-month subscription, with the option to upgrade to a year for just $10 when you activate the tracker — which I did. Living on 5 acres, I recently had a new neighbor who brought in 5 Texas longhorns on his property. I definitely don’t want my dogs slipping through the fence and getting into trouble, or the cattle getting stressed out. So, I set up a “no-go” zone halfway down my property near the cattle, giving me plenty of time to recall the dogs thanks to the alerts. These trackers have a beeper that I can activate through the app — it’s not super loud, but it’s pitched just right for my dogs to hear and come back. Since my dogs are already trained with e-collars, this system works seamlessly. When I let them outside the fenced backyard to patrol the main property, I switch to live tracking for instant notifications if they enter the no-go zones. I plan to reinforce the fencing near the cattle to prevent any slips, but having these trackers on gives me peace of mind that both my dogs and the cattle are safe and stress-free. After researching many options, I found that the Tractive trackers stand out for their reliable signal, feature-rich app, and solid build. They might seem pricey at first with the subscription, but when I break down the value, they’re actually among the best out there. I use them for my two Dobermans — a 65lb female and a 95lb male — and they fit perfectly on their wider collars. I didn’t feel the need for the XL or adventure XL models; these suits them perfectly.

アプリが全然繋がらない。

Ich bin mit dem Tractive Tracker bisher vollkommen zufrieden. Er funktioniert zuverlässig und gibt mir gerade unterwegs ein deutlich beruhigenderes Gefühl, weil ich jederzeit sehen kann, wo mein Hund ist. Besonders praktisch finde ich, dass die Ortung schnell und zuverlässig funktioniert. Dazu kommen einige nette Zusatzfunktionen, wie die Anzeige von Herzschlag und Atemfrequenz sowie weitere Gesundheitsdaten. Gerade diese kleinen Extras finde ich wirklich interessant und hilfreich. Insgesamt ein tolles Gerät, das mir im Alltag einfach ein zusätzliches Gefühl von Sicherheit gibt. Bisher kann ich den Tracker absolut empfehlen.

Meilleur achat, mon chien, bonne autonomie, permet de suivre les déplacements, et l’avantage, c’est le relevé des données de santé. Améliorer l’autonomie de la batterie serait un plus quand même.

Ras

The item was great just a shame the subscription price was so high