(Photo: RSPCA)
Tired of your pet wandering off? Fed up with driving around the neighbourhood looking for your elusive pooch?
If so, the RSPCA says you need … Trakapet!
The Trakapet collar is a purpose-built GPS locating device that has been specifically designed for the pet market.
The RSPCA says it’s robust, water resistant, aesthetically pleasing and compact and has been designed to be worn by active pets with an abundance of energy.
“Our call centre takes thousands of lost and found calls every year in Queensland,” RSPCA Qld spokesperson Michael Beatty said.
“This device is ideal for someone who has a pet that is prone to escape and go wandering. Hopefully it can help reduce the problem.”
The “Find Mode”, which operates via a smartphone application, allows the pet owner to program the TrakaPet to report their pet’s location every 180 seconds. It will also turn on a high intensity LED light built into the unit to make the pet easier to spot at night.
The pet’s location quickly can be tracked using maps on the MyLocate portal, or the smartphone applications.
The collar contains an integrated SIM card with a 24-month connection to an Australian telecommunications provider so there is no searching, buying, inserting and topping up SIM cards.
Owners can program Trakapet to receive alerts via SMS or push messages that alert them should the wandering pet decide to leave a defined SafeZone.
They then put the unit into Chase Mode to get constant location updates as well as activating the LED to make it easier to see them.
“It will certainly give pet owners piece of mind and save a lot of legwork!” Mr Beatty said.
Campbell Newman will have us all wearing one soon
We already are being tracked. Our smartphones allow the police to pinpoint our position, unless you’ve changed the default settings. Which makes it even more incredible that the authorities were able to lose a whole jet with 239 people on board.