Cat Nav (GPS or similar)

[ADP68]

My family and I are really worried about our cat who sometimes loses track of time and comes home late. Last night, she was the victim of the local bully-cat and laid low for ages before coming home (after I spent ages searching the woods behind our house). Has anyone here used one of these tracking products, or seen a review of them:
http://www.loc8tor.com/uk/pets/cats/loc8tor-pet.ht...
http://www.pawtrax.co.uk/
or a few here:
http://www.trackmycat.com/products.html

[DKL]

We have loc8tors on ours. They're ok and line of sight will work over 100+m as they say but they do get quite limited quite quickly range wise.
We have found ours various times where we wouldn't have otherwise and it useful to know they are in the vicinity even if you don't want to find them particularly. Does use batteries mind, and quite quickly.
The one time our little girl just vanished (and finally was found 6 weeks later) I didn't get a peep. I'm still confused about that. It was working when we got her back and I scoured the area within 30 mins of her going. So its isn't fool proof.
For the money I'm happy with it but a well priced gps is always on my mind.

[ADP68]

Thank you. Interesting re the batteries as the website says 7 months! I'll check them out.

[Nimby]

We've had a PawTrax for about a year. It works really well provided there's both a mobile phone signal and reasonably good GPS reception. So it's fine in the open but not so good in forests where our dog tends to disappear; maybe less of an issue for cats. The running costs with a Giffgaff SIM are very low.

You can buy the actual tracker h/w (it's just the yellow version of the MT90) much cheaper on eBay than from PawTrax, but I've not found an alternative source for their phone app that tracks in real-time. Without that you just receive texts containing a Google Maps URL of the location.

[ADP68]

I bought the Loc8tor last week and it has been used twice already, once to find the cat in our house when we wanted to put the alarm on and leave the cat in the utility room whilst we were out and on Friday when we had workers in the garden and wanted to bring the cat in so they didn't spook her. Apparently, she wasn't impressed that my wife had found her secret hiding places!

[shep1001]

I purchased a loc8tor system after the Mrs went all mental when Moglet went missing last week for all of 10 minutes after it went dark one day last week. Seems to work quite well and I have managed to convince the Mrs that 'lost' does not include playing in the long grass next doors garden, which is where he goes 99% of the time......

[ADP68]

Snap! My neighbour is like Stig of the Dump and his garden is like a leisure park for our cat. And we also back woodlands, where she also plays.