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 different GPS locator services available. One allows you to outline a boundary online of where your pet is allowed to be. If the pet crosses that boundary, you will receive an alert call on your cell phone. The service will send maps to your phone or computer as to the location of your pet.

The second unit works differently in that a boundary is not set, Instead you send an alert if the pet is gone and the location of the GPS unit is returned 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 of the areas in the country and most animals using their own collars, the GPS units work great.

Some pet locators even have a button that a good Samaritan can push to let the company know that a pet has been found away from its home. This additional security measure is a great option for your pet.

People often pay thousands of dollars in rewards for pets that have gone missing. A GPS pet locator only costs 99 dollars plus the small monthly service charge. This is a great deal for those pets that we love so much.

Today we not only have to worry about a pet getting out, we are also plagued with pet thieves. Believe it or not, there are people that will steal your pet in order to sell it to someone else. The GPS pet locator makes it much easier to recover that stolen pet.

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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