[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Whistle GPS Pet Tracker is the best solution for monitoring your pet’s location and activity with one device.
A few years ago we tested the Tagg Pet Tracker and gave it a positive four-star review. Tagg was bought by competitor Whistle Labs shortly thereafter, and the device has since become the $79.95 Whistle GPS Pet Tracker. The hardware is the same size and shape as the Tagg, but has a brushed metal sheen to replace the old plastic build. The software, though, has gotten a big upgrade by moving over to Whistle’s platform. The Whistle GPS Pet Tracker has all the best things we liked in the original Whistle Activity Tracker and the Tagg jammed into one device. It excels at providing a heads-up that your pet is no longer in a preset safe zone, finding your pet on a map, and giving you an at-a-glance reading of how much activity your pet is getting. That makes it our Editors’ Choice for tracking all the things your canine is up to.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][title title=”Conclusions”][vc_column_text]Activity tracking is a luxury most pet owners can probably skip, but location tracking via GPS is important if you have a pet that roams. The Whistle GPS Pet Tracker offers the best of both worlds. It’s got the longest battery life of any pet tracker we’ve tested, along with excellent software and notifications. If you only want activity tracking, you can stick with the Whistle Activity Tracker and save on GPS fees. But if you need to know where the dog is at all times, Whistle GPS is your best option, and our Editors’ Choice.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
An honest review from a former TAGG user, like some of the other reviews, I am a former TAGG user. I was very happy with the tag unit and phone app for about 6 months. The device and phone unit allowed me to track my dog when he was outside of the house with pretty good accuracy and that was worth $100 + $10 /month. Now, however, it is garbage. Mostly the new WHISTLE app is crowded with stuff surrounding my pets activity, which is worthless to me. I have lab puppy. There is no danger of him not being active. The app is also bloated with a bunch of stupid social media s***. I’m sure that nobody wants to know what my dog’s level of activity is. I don’t even care. You cant turn this stuff off, as far as I can tell.
The WORST part, however, is that the main utility for which I bought and continue to pay for no longer works at all. It no longer gives ma a location of my dog that is anywhere close to where he is. I test it when I am walking him and its off by as much as a half mile. To me, this is even worse than having no tracker at all, because in a lost dog situation, it would send me away from where he actually might be. I have contacted customer support (35 minute wait) and they send me instructions to reboot the device and base station, which didn’t work. I am done with this product now. I assume that another company will soon come in and fill the void left by TAGG. Thanks for wasting my money and time WHISTLE.
When it was the Tagg app I got email and text alerts when my pet left the home area. I was a happy customer until whistle and this tracker came out. It promised faster response times to the pet leaving home area, it still takes at least 10 minutes before it will register my pet as being gone, and there is no way to tell the app that my pet is gone. It won’t allow you to track your pet until it registers as gone.