Tractive Smart Cat Tracker Mini | #1 Cat GPS | Real-Time Location Tracking | Territory & Location History | Safety Collar included (Brown)

Absolutely brilliant tracker. I am a very anxious cat owner having had three cats die on the roads. My cat Percy was therefore a house cat but he was unhappy and clearly wanted to go outside. So I bought him one of these trackers and it works brilliantly. It’s sturdy, hasn’t fallen off him yet, has good battery life, is really accurate on the tracking side of things, and it doesn’t bother him at all to wear. Mind you he is a big cat at 7 kg!So to conclude, I have to say the tracker has done exactly what I wanted it to do. The reason I bought it was 50% to keep Percy safe, and 50% stop to stop me from getting anxious. And it’s worked!Highly recommended.

I wanted a solution to track my cats which roam freely in the countryside where we live. We looked into AirTags but there's little wi-fi/iPhone coverage around here. We also looked at other solutions where you need to point the device in the direction of the pet but, if I knew where they are, why would I need a tracker in the first place?Then we discovered Tractive. The cat mini is great, it allows me to see in real time where my cats (1 year and 14 year olds) are at any time. It is not bulky and is very light, so it does not bother them (they sleep, play and climb with no problem), and it also gives me insights about their activity, sleep patterns, and overall health.I think the service is worth the money. If you think about it, getting a separate device and buying your own SIM card with internet + GPS would cost at least EUR 20 a month. With Tractive, we pay just over a EUR 100 for a couple of years and we can track the cats and get insights on our phones and computers and is very easy to set up.Also, their customer service is great: one of our trackers started showing poor battery all of a sudden and they quickly replaced it. Plus, whenever I've had questions they have been very quick to answer.5/5 overall!

We have a kitten who has literally just reached a year old. She was a rescue and didn't get spayed until January 2024, and she was then allowed out with an Apple Air Tag on a collar. £5 collar and a £25 Air Tag.Whilst this didn't allow real time tracking, on the very odd occasions she failed to return home we managed to find here or have her turn up whilst we were looking for her, and on the solitary occasion over the course of 6 months where she came home without the collar, we managed to find the collar within 30 minutes.In search of something that would provide real-time tracking and also educate us as to how far she goes, whether she goes anywhere dangerous etc. we bought this tracker.Issue number 1 and it's a big problem - you literally cannot use the tracker without a subscription which we knew, but we did assume that as the pricing for a subscription was shown as "per month" that it would be just that. Did we not read properly? Quite possibly, but ultimately it came down to having to pay for a whole year up front no matter what. So essentially over and above the cost of the initial tracker, you also have to folk out almost double again just to use it to see if it is actually any good.Assuming that the reviews were real and genuine, we took the plunge and bought the 2-year premium plan with loss coverage for £162. Didn't have too much choice really, as 1 year was considerably more expensive than 2 years divided by 2, and again we were naive enough to think it would be a good tracker.The collar included is probably the only good point about this tracker. The Rogz cat collar is excellent, and you can set how easily the collar will come apart, we put it on the lowest setting as the cat is quite small and we would sooner lose a tracker and collar than have a dead cat!Massive problem 2 is the two different attachments for the collar to hold the tracker are absolutely rubbish. One is a black plastic clip and the other a dark blue thin rubber/latex holder. We tried the clip first, and the tracker never really felt as secure as it should be.Setting up the app was relatively straight forward although in use it isn't the most intuitive and a little clumsy at times, but it does its job.The tracker for me is huge (especially compared to an Air Tag) and hangs under the cat’s neck. The cat didn't seem overly put off though and away she went.Problem 3 - the battery barely lasts 2 days without doing any live tracking and if you are brave enough to not charge it after 2 days, on the third day if your cat loses her collar or the tracker, it's a battle against the battery running out to find it. All this despite it having power saving features like using wi-fi only when she is in the house.The battery life is literally garbage. It does charge in under 30 minutes, but you literally have to charge it every other day without fail otherwise by the end of day three it is likely to be lost if the cat doesn't bring it home (or come home).Problem 4 - So in week 1 the tracker and collar got pulled off the cat in a thorn bush. At the time I guessed just one of those things, but it has become so regular it must relate to the size of the tracker. Cat came home without collar, we waited until next morning to retrieve it with 50 percent battery remaining due to it having been charged overnight.When we got to the area where live tracking said it was, we switched on audio. Couldn't hear a thing, switched on the light, couldn't see a thing. When we found it using the bluetooth finder in the app, it was maybe 5 feet from us on the floor. The sound is barely audible and on this and every occasion the tracker has gone missing, the light is facing the floor so completely useless.Since the first loss, we have had another couple of losses of the collar and tracker and then a couple of weeks ago we managed to find the collar, but no sign of the black plastic clip. At this point I read online reviews only to realise that the clip is clearly not fit for purpose. There is no way it should be breaking just under the strength of our cat.Rather than order a replacement, we tried to use the rubber/latex holder instead on the same collar. The problem with this is that this caused the tracker to dangle quite low around the cat's neck and on several occasions, it has come back along with the cat covered in mud or marks suggesting it is scraping the floor when she crawls under fences/bushes etc.Speed up to last night, cat comes home with a collar and the rubber holder, but no tracker due to a rip in the holder. For the second time ever (first time was a freshly charged battery earlier in the week and the cat left the wi-fi zone of the house to go out and about) when I looked for the location of the tracker on the app, there was no GPS signal (despite it having network signal) so only an approximate location for the tracker in a nearby field nearly 5 hours ago.I have been to look for it today and the tracker wasn't in the area of the last location and hasn't been found. There is no location that I am aware of where the cat has ever been with the tracker that doesn't have GPS signal, and exactly where the tracker was last seen has great GPS signal on a phone. So, I am guessing that at the same time as the holder getting ripped, the device has suffered damage or has eventually come out of the holder somewhere very out of the way. The last location updates about every 2 to 3 minutes so the cat couldn't have gotten far with it - but far enough for us to have zero chance of finding it.That's OK I hear you say, you have the premium plan with loss coverage you can get another one. Yes, you would think so, but then you can only claim for loss twice in the 2 year period as far as I know, and had it not been for our dogged perseverance wading through bushes and all sorts and getting cut to bits, we would have lost 5 by now.Had we not spent a fortune on an annual monitoring plan, the tracker would have already been in the bin after the second loss. But here we are less than 3 months since its purchase and it has been lost 6 times at least now, and on each occasion, we have had to be adventurous to rescue it. On 2 occasions in that time this has been due to the failure of the holder's materials.So to summarise: Battery life is dire, sound is so low volume it's pointless (and it’s an annoying tune instead of a good beep like Air Tag), the light on every occasions has been hidden as the tracker always lands light side down (due to its design), the holders are literally not fit for purpose, the GPS seems unreliable and you are tied in to a year as a minimum but could easily find yourself needing a 3rd replacement within weeks due to the holders being rubbish, GPS failing or the collar and tag clearly being very susceptible to getting snagged in a bush and not retrievable due to the size of the thing.Incidentally a friend who has two of these for two cats (who we didn't speak to before buying), literally uses gaffa tape every time she charges the batteries and puts the tracker back on the collar due to the number of times their trackers have gone missing due to broken holders.Based on the negative Amazon reviews, the manufacturers must know of all of these problems.My suggestions to fix it all?1. Give a free trial for the actual tracking after initial purchase. If you are too tight to do this at least allow a month’s paid trial.2. Remove the light completely or put it on a surface where it can be seen.3. Sort the volume out - we can hear an Airtag from 10-15 feet easily, why does this thing play a rubbish tune instead of using something more penetrating of a noise, and why is it so quiet?4. Use a better battery AND allow in settings for the location updates to take place up to an hour apart (3 minutes average it seems at the moment which I could definitely live without), and all the lifestyle monitoring stuff be able to be disabled so the tracker isn't so active.5. Sort out the holders, they are absolute garbage and not fit for anything. Literally some rubber rings that reinforce the holders would be a start.6. Change the number of claims for a lost tracker one can make.In the meantime, despite the waste of the subscription, we are going back to relying on an Air Tag with the Rogz collar.TRACTIVE IS NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE unless you live somewhere where your cat really cannot adventure much beyond a garden and tarmac with close to zero risk of your cat ever catching its neck area on anything.

I've been using tractive mini cat trackers for both of my cats for 2 years now and overall I love them. The accuracy of the GPS is great, I love the sound and light options (use them frequently to either find which exact bush my cat is hiding in, or to find the tracker itself if they lost it). I also like the high standard of the customer service offered by the company, keep up the good work.Things I'd like to see improving - there isn't many to be fair. The battery drains quickly when you put it on LIVE mode, so would be excellent to see some improvement there however I can understand the difficulty of doing that and keeping the device small enough for cats to wear. The other thing is that I don't think Tractive Care is worth it. It used to be worth it when you'd receive the collar and the rubber tracker holder, as well as the tracker itself, in the event that the current tracker was lost or stolen. However, you don't get the collar and necessary accessories included anymore. So essentially you are paying £20 a year for tractive care and if your cat loses the tracker that year you can claim one "for free", but then the collar and the accessories come to additional £20, not to mention the shipping costs. So in total you are still paying over £40 for a new tracker, which is essentially a cost of one anyway. So you may as well not bother with Tractive Care and order a new tracker when your cat loses the one he's wearing now. Some years you might actually save money cause yiur cat might not lose it (one of mine lost about 4 trackers already, whilst the other one never lost hers, I guess it depends what kind of mischief they are into). Back to the point, I think keeping the price of tractive Care at £20/year but including the accessories to the replacement tracker, would make it an appealing option for many. As it currently stands, it's not worth paying for.