Pawscout Smarter Pet Tag (Version 2.5) for Cats & Dogs, Nearby Bluetooth Pet Tracking (not GPS), Community Pet Finder, Walk Diary, Outdoor Virtual Pet Leashes, Digital Medical Profiles

This works solidly for my use-case. My cat mostly stays in my yard, and I have a fallback if I can't locate her. She's tiny (7.5 lbs.) but she tolerates it well. I use a tag holder that keeps it on straddling on the collar rather than dangling from a ring. It would be obtrusive on a small animal if you hang it from the collar. I bought a collar with an Airtag holder, and that works well. I never used the included holder, as I didn't seem like it would work well with a typical cat collar.

I ordered two of these. One came with all of the parts and two working batteries, the other came with two dead batteries and missing two of the 4 tag options. I’m assuming someone returned it and I received it. I just used the extra battery and the pieces I needed from the good pack. I might try to get a replacement. I haven’t yet.I ordered these because I found a cat stuck in my tree who was wearing one and I liked it. The only problem is, I tried to contact the owner about 15 times through the app and never got a response. I assumed they weren’t actively looking for their cat and after a few days of me trying, the cat ran away while I was feeding it and waiting for a response from the owner. Today, I downloaded the app and saw on the main feed the cat that I found. He’s been missing for 4 months and the owner was actively looking for him. I don’t know why the app didn’t alert her. Maybe her contact info wasn’t up to date or maybe the app doesn’t work well. On the app they offer an engraved plate that fits on the back of the go’s tag. I highly recommend this. The cat I found didn’t have a name plate so I had no way to contact the owner aside from trying to use the app which doesn’t give me their info. It simple has you enter your info and it sends the pet owner your info. The name plate give you the option to engrave your address and phone number. If you order the name plate separate it’s $10 but you can order the tag and the name plate combo, directly from the app for $25. I still like it for the price and the hope that if my dogs did get out it’s one more way to potentially be reunited.

Our cat, Aurora, is actually just a stray who showed up 3 years ago and never left. Given her background, she likes to wander, and since we live in Arizona, we have been worried about her getting stuck in a neighbor's garage (or elsewhere), which could be a life-or-death situation in the heat. One time, before we purchased the Pawscout tag, Aurora went missing for 3 nights, which was extremely worrying. My wife eventually found her stuck down a storm drain less than 50 feet behind our house (she jumped down into the drain, but just couldn't jump up and out).So, we decided we needed some form of pet tracker for the kitty. GPS options were considered, but then rejected because the battery life is just too short.We also looked at Apple Airtags, but a friend brought one over and we tested it (my wife hid the tag in a plant and then challenged us to find it). Airtags literally just tell you the street address where the tag is located.....which is completely useless if your property is large (which ours is). We spent literally hours trying to find the Airtag, when it was just a few feet away. I can understand how an Airtag could be helpful if you lost an object across town and had no idea where to look, but for a pet....yeah, Airtags would be 100% useless.So, we decided to try Pawscout. NO, it's not GPS-based, so you will never get a pin-point location of your pet. BUT, the upside is that the tag is fairly small (about the same as an Airtag) and battery life is very, very good -- we've been seeing at least 3-4 months.But here is the best part about Pawscout -- unlike Airtags, you can actually see the distance from your phone to the tag (I believe this is probably based on the strength of the bluetooth signal). So, if your pet is lost, you can get a general idea of his/her last location...and you can also see your exact distance to the pet once you're close enough to connect (I know they advertise 300 feet, but we've never gotten more than about 50 feet....which is still good enough to be very useful).After owning Pawscout for about 6 months, we've used it twice to find Aurora's collar after she came home without it. Once the collar was stuck on a tree branch, and once it was (oddly) in the middle of the lawn. Like all cats, Aurora likes to explore, and she sometimes snags her collar on things which causes it to detach. Before Pawscout, we lost at least 3-4 collars, but since we've had Pawscout, our recovery rate has been 100%.Also, a few weeks ago Aurora didn't come home, and we had a suspicion that she had snuck into a neighbor's garage. Sure enough, we stood out in front of the garage and Pawscout reported that she was just 5 feet away. Since this wasn't someone we knew, we decided to wait until the morning to knock on their door. Amazing to see our little kitty run out of the garage as soon as the door opened.If there is ANY downside, it's this -- the tag is cheap and the app is free, but you can't check the battery level on the app unless you pay $15/yr. for an "upgrade" to Pawscout "Pro". The upgrade does include some extra batteries, but these use 2032 button cells which cost about $5 for 10x, so I don't see any value in that. Yes, I'd probably pay a little extra to be able to see the battery level (we actually lost our first Pawscout after Aurora dropped her collar somewhere and we didn't notice the battery on her collar was dead).So, word to the wise -- just make sure you replace your batteries at least every 2-3 months (the app DOES give you a warning when the battery is "critically low, even without paying for the pro-level service), but we sadly didn't see that warning until after the first tag was lost.NOTE -- the Pawscout tag may look a little bulky for a cat, but Aurora doesn't seem to mind hers at all, and we love the extra piece of mind it gives us.

It's really not the best tracker for your pet. Half of the time the tracker doesn't even work. I bought 2 of them a week ago and 1 already stopped working. Be best just to buy a good expensive tracker for your pet.

Great concept for the price, however I bought four total, two for each of my dogs ($120) and decided I wasn’t going to waste anymore money after the second round of them not working. I only bought the second round because I thought the first time they stopped working was because of a user error, and not the device itself.I read reviews and understood that this would not pin-point where my dog was, but it was more like a hot-or-cold game, telling you how close they are to you. I figured for the money, that was okay and I was excited to try it. I also understood that this was water proof, or at least HIGHLY water resistant, which I definitely needed. I also loved that there was a community on the app, and you could connect to neighbors to report a missing dog.Anyway, I have a water dog that loves to play in his small kiddie pool. After a while, the device stopped working. I thought it was an error so I got another one, and after a few days same thing. My other dog manages to scratch hers out of the holder and destroy it. I understand the holder is very strong and secure, so I believe that is her own fault and I understand that one. When they did “work,” they still didn’t work when I was away, and another “guardian” was near them. It would still say they are out of range when I knew they were close to the “guardian.”I think this is a great concept, but there are a lot of bugs that need fixed first. I should’ve known a $30 pet locator was too good to be true. Had I known I would have spent so much money on these, I would’ve gotten better ones for them.