"AirTag on a Dog" Results

[Devin Breeding]

Yes but you said you tried it to try and save money on a holder, which doesn’t make sense as it was a bigger potential loss.

Anyway calm down, I’m glad it worked out. Enjoy your airtag

Trial on one to potentially use on multiple if I liked the solution. Which would in turn save significant money (and some size) on holders. Turns out, I don’t like the cheap solution. Not much of a surprise but still worth the mini experiment to me.

No issue here other than people bothering about a tiny hole in a cheap plastic device they don’t own seems rather silly to me. 🤷🏼‍♂️

 

[Ankaa]

If you think you can use an AirTag as a GPS tracker substitute or even to consistently monitor or 'track' your animal - obviously you're gonna be disappointed. (I've seen a in itself really good youtube review on that, too).

If you're merely looking for somewhat of a backup option in a 'what if' case senario - what is the harm in attaching one to your dog (or large cat)?

As others have pointed out, if dog is stollen or dog/cat runs away, chances are that while looking for them someone with an iDevice will come into close range. When looking for a lost (or dumped) pet, an *approximate* location is still better than being able to track them down to the inch. Once you're in the general area, you can use more tradiational means trying to catch them, but it's always helpful to know where to even begin to look for them.

Sample case scenario: your indoor cat* escaped. Would be helpful to know when and where the last pinged location was. 30 mins ago by your house? Good chances your feline friend is still hiding somewhere right there.

(I do agree with the above mentioned review that AirTags are too large for cats for 24/7 wearing. But consider secnarios where you're travelling with the pet .... vet. moving. There's plenty situations where *I* am definietely going to attach an AirTag to mine, just in case. There recently was a situation shared in the circles where a cat got lost during transportation from Texas to Hawaii and absolutely no one knows where the cat is, where she escaped etc. -- given the number of expected iDeves in an airport setting, something like that would've helped tremendously in the efforts trying to find said cat)

Sample case scenario two: your dog esacpes on a trail. It's not actually darting off deep into the forst but stays close to the trail, but because it's somewhat skiddish, stays just about out of sight from people. Wearing an AirTag at least gives the CHANCE that someone's phone is going to pick it up -- and people on trails have iDevices, plenty enough record their own exercises etc.)

 

[ipedro]

I had an opposite experience of the OP.

While my dog isn’t an escape artist and is smart enough to know where home is (she knows the location of every dog water bowl in this city, it blows my mind), this past weekend I had to go away on a business trip and last minute found a dog sitter who lives outside of the city. I didn’t have time to acclimate my dog to the new person and my dog would definitely not find her way home.

What did the AirTag on her collar give me? Peace of mind. Worth every penny.

While I was away, I couldn’t find my keys and pinged them. While there, I noticed that my dog’s location had been updated regularly. It consistently showed her where I expected her to be. I never felt compelled to call the sitter to check in on my dog because the AirTag gave me peace of mind.

The dog sitter hadn’t paired her phone to my AirTag and I hadn’t put it in Lost Mode, yet it was still using the iPhone mesh network to routinely locate the AirTag. This was super reassuring.

When arriving to pick up my dog, I tested other features such as locating my dog with the AR Find feature. I picked her AirTag up a good 100ft away, down the street, which accurately showed me the direction she was in.

As for sound pings, it makes sense that they would be limited to when close up. You really wouldnt hear it when far away so the AR distance and direction feature makes more sense.

 

[lovefurbaby]

He arrived!! He flew all the way to Vancouver from Korea, then got stuck in customs for hours as there was apparently 50+ dogs on the flight so they had a lot to process. All told the poor guy was stuck in a crate for over 20 hours . He’s doing great though. Such a great and well behaved little guy already. Put the air tag on and it didn’t bother him at all.

Congratulations！He looks great though after such a long trip. Must be a super health and energetic boy.

 

[lovefurbaby]

I had an opposite experience of the OP.

While my dog isn’t an escape artist and is smart enough to know where home is (she knows the location of every dog water bowl in this city, it blows my mind), this past weekend I had to go away on a business trip and last minute found a dog sitter who lives outside of the city. I didn’t have time to acclimate my dog to the new person and my dog would definitely not find her way home.

What did the AirTag on her collar give me? Peace of mind. Worth every penny.

While I was away, I couldn’t find my keys and pinged them. While there, I noticed that my dog’s location had been updated regularly. It consistently showed her where I expected her to be. I never felt compelled to call the sitter to check in on my dog because the AirTag gave me peace of mind.

The dog sitter hadn’t paired her phone to my AirTag and I hadn’t put it in Lost Mode, yet it was still using the iPhone mesh network to routinely locate the AirTag. This was super reassuring.

When arriving to pick up my dog, I tested other features such as locating my dog with the AR Find feature. I picked her AirTag up a good 100ft away, down the street, which accurately showed me the direction she was in.

As for sound pings, it makes sense that they would be limited to when close up. You really wouldnt hear it when far away so the AR distance and direction feature makes more sense.

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She is adorable with pink, like a princess.

 

[Ankaa]

What did the AirTag on her collar give me? Peace of mind. Worth every penny.

Thank you for bringing up another super great use case that I'll be adding to my own list. I've had people cat/house sit before that I've known do trust, but especially with indoor-only cats there are certain things/routines you just gotta be mindful about, and when you don't have cats or not indoor cats, might easily oversee (such as making sure to close doors/windows or being aware that some cats might wait behind the door to dart outside). It's sooooo easy to have pets escape when someone else is watching them even with their best care and attention. Definitely will put tags on my cats when I have someone else watching them, again.

As you mentioned, that peace of mind is worth every single penny.

 

[madrigal77]

Congratulations！He looks great though after such a long trip. Must be a super health and energetic boy.

Yes he made it through very well. We were a bit worried as Shiba’s can be traumatized pretty easily, but he’s shown no signs of stress so far. You can tell he was well socialized by the breeder.

 

[hugodrax]

Works great for our chi that likes to play hide and seek in our 1/2 acre yard. It just set to locate and walk around and use it like a compass to find her. Its amazing regarding accuracy.

how does this thing know the bearing?

 

[hugodrax]

Thanks for the review. I was thinking of getting one of these for my dog but I wasn’t sure how useful it would be. Pay no mind to the keyboard warriors.

its good enough. At least if your pet has one, there is a probability of locating vs zero probability of locating without.

as long as one beacon is recieved by an iphone somewhere in the US at least it gives you a general area to look for your lost pet.

and you might actually find him because someone did get the popup and called,you.

anything that increases probabilities is a plus.

too many people let perfect be the enemy of good.

 

[fischersd]

Works great for our chi that likes to play hide and seek in our 1/2 acre yard. It just set to locate and walk around and use it like a compass to find her. Its amazing regarding accuracy.

how does this thing know the bearing?

FindMy uses both bluetooth (further away) and ultrawideband when you get closer. They must have multiple antennae inside the iPhone to be able to do directional triangulation. (either that or an antennae that has multiple sensors on it) Signal strength gives them distance.

 

[Kardinal1911]

Well it wasn’t designed for pets. It was designed for “THINGS” so I don’t see why people keep tryna shoe horn it into other categories

 

[contacos]

I bought a set of 4, didn't really have any use for the other 2 so I put one on my dog for an peace of mind. He is also chipped and wears a name tag with my address and phone number as well as being registered online in case someone finds him so this just adds yet another layer of security. It is not allowed to take a dog off leash here so this is just for the "what if" scenario that he gets loose chasing after another dog and gets lost.

 

[Devin Breeding]

Well it wasn’t designed for pets. It was designed for “THINGS” so I don’t see why people keep tryna shoe horn it into other categories

The fact that it is subscription free and has a year long battery life. Look for any gps tracker that has either. It is a liability for them to list it as designed for pets but it has proven to be a reliable tracker so far. The object it is attached to is irrelevant really.