Protect Your Pet With a GPS Pet Locator

By Adam Webster

If your dog is a part of your family, then you want to do all that you can to protect him or her. One of the most helpless feelings is to walk back to a kennel to bring your friend in for the evening and the kennel to be empty. If you have ever experienced this situation, then you can appreciate the GPS pet locator.

In another scenario, perhaps your pet spends most of her day inside with you, but one day someone rings the doorbell. As you open the door to let your guest into the house, your pet runs out the door and is gone before you can call her back into the house.

A GPS pet locator uses the same technology of a GPS unit in your car. It can give the location or your pet to within fifty feet.

The units are fitted into a collar that is your pet should wear at all times. Currently these collars are not small enough for miniature of small dogs. They work best with medium or large breeds. Some of the newer locators solve this problem by allowing you to attach the locator to your pets own collar.

There are two types of GPS protection available for your pet. With the first, you set a boundary where your pet is allowed to roam. If the pet crosses that boundary, then you are sent an alert by phone and e-mail that your pet has crossed. You can track the pet with a mobile phone or online.

The second type of unit does not set a boundary, but anytime you cannot find your pet missing, you call the alert number and the pet's location is relayed to you.

There are some limitations to GPS pet locators. Some terrain causes them to not work as well as they do in others. In addition, some of the locators do not work for the smaller dogs.

For most areas and medium to large pets, a GPS pet locator is a great device.

Some pet locators have a button on the device that can be pressed if your pet if found by a stranger. The device sends a signal of a lost pet to the monitor company. This is an additional security measure other than setting a boundary for your pet.

When a pet is missing people offer large rewards for that pets return. Instead, you could take defensive action and provide your pet with a GPS pet locator for about one hundred dollars plus a small monthly service charge.

In addition to a pet getting out of his or her kennel or the door, today, we have the worry of pet thieves. There are people that will steal you dog to sell to someone else. If your pet has a GPS pet locator around his or her neck, the likelihood of recovery is much greater.

Why not give the best protection available to make sure that you can find a lost pet. That dog will come home with its tail wagging.

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