E collar
This is a great e collar and app. Very user friendly. My dog has been responding well it.
They suck
Forever having connectivity / pairing issues - EVERY time
Speaker on the collar went out within a month
Speaker on the collar went out within a month
Not overly impressed
I bought this setup with the compass handheld last winter. I spent quite a while with support dealing with the handheld unit that was constantly recalibrating and even with a replacement I’ve found the handheld screen is nearly useless as it’s never accurate as to the direction of north or where the dog is.
As for this app, it’s just ok. It works better than the handheld at accurately telling me where the dog is but I don’t want to have to take my phone out to look every time. That was the point of the more expensive compass handheld.
Features like the truck marker are more annoying than helpful and the system overall is not intuitive. I should be able to just long press on a marker and delete it. Trucks get moved a lot and that pin shouldn’t be as persistent as it is or obtuse to delete at the very least.
I bought this over the garmin due to the integration in the Apple ecosystem and hoping it would work well with my Apple Watch. At the end of the day I’m probably going to sell it all at a loss and just buy the garmin system.
As for this app, it’s just ok. It works better than the handheld at accurately telling me where the dog is but I don’t want to have to take my phone out to look every time. That was the point of the more expensive compass handheld.
Features like the truck marker are more annoying than helpful and the system overall is not intuitive. I should be able to just long press on a marker and delete it. Trucks get moved a lot and that pin shouldn’t be as persistent as it is or obtuse to delete at the very least.
I bought this over the garmin due to the integration in the Apple ecosystem and hoping it would work well with my Apple Watch. At the end of the day I’m probably going to sell it all at a loss and just buy the garmin system.
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Response from developer
We’re sorry to hear about your experience and appreciate your detailed feedback. Please contact our support team at info@dogtrasupport.com or 1-888-811-9111 to connect with a Product Specialist who can review your situation, and discuss options to assist.
Buffer too big
The 5m minimum buffer renders this tool almost useless. 5m from the road is inside my house so my dog cannot go in the front yard.
Collars
Keep losing connection with two colors
Compass
I wish I didn’t have to re set all the buttons to what I want every time I set it up and that the settings would stay set.
Updates and connection issues
Does not consistently update or connect
Buy Garmin
Wish I bought Garmin. I hunt bear and Mt lion with 8 hounds. I’m constantly losing track of my dogs and have had to rely on my buddies Garmin collared dogs to find mine ( hunting together) on many occasions. It’s ridiculous how you have to use some 1990’s software and a pc just to download maps in remote places ( where everyone hunts). I wishhhh I bought Garmin. My biggest annoyance is the fact that the tone noise for your dogs and signal lost noise on your collar is the exact same sound. I can count a few hundred times that it starts beeping In my hand, calling any dogs in close vicinity close to me. Good way to tone dull a good dog. Out of every sound that can be made on earth, you chose the same sound for both remote and collars. Absolutely 0 forethought
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Response from developer
Thank you for your feedback. We’re sorry to hear about your experience with Pathfinder 2 and understand your concern regarding the tone sound being similar to the signal loss alert, which can understandably cause confusion during use. We will pass this on to the development team for review. If you’d like to share any additional details, please feel free to contact us at info@dogtrasupport.com or 1-888-811-9111 so we can assist further.
Never work right
Very expensive for a super glitchy system
connect
not connecting
Greatest collar system ever
I have two gsp’s. Both have learned the system. Makes managing and owning high energy hunting dogs a dream!
Sucks
Never works
Inconsistent tracking
We got the new dogtra pathfinder 2 mini and loved it at first. As we used it more we found more issues. It would regularly drop signal, show the dog was in the completely wrong direction, then one day the collar just stopped sending a signal. We have had I hope for this system but it needs some serious software updates to improve efficiency and consistency.
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Perfect!
I work on a golf course my Aussie runs for days this give me the peace of mind! Thank you
Buy Garmin
Decent product ruined by the fact that the tone noise your hounds hear is the same exact noise the yellow remote emits when it loses signal. Which happened all the time. Even if your dogs are next to you, no big deal, but why why why would you make that sound the same sound you train dogs with?
I wish I could strangle whoever thought that was a good idea. Wish I could afford Garmin
I wish I could strangle whoever thought that was a good idea. Wish I could afford Garmin
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Great Function, Not So Great App Design
The app is confusing to navigate for me, and it’s very disappointing you can’t at least make multiple e-fence boundaries and switch your active one. As far as I can tell, I have to re-create the boundary every time I want it in a different location.
Great for my Beagle
Purchased the Pathfinder 2 in the fall we use it to keep track of our beagle while Rabbit hunting.
Fantastic and the battery last a long time. easy to run a full day with plenty more to spare.
I use an iPhone
Fantastic and the battery last a long time. easy to run a full day with plenty more to spare.
I use an iPhone
GPS inconsistent
I walked the boundary and the GPS indicates a different path. Frustrating
Great for tracking and e-fence.
I love the system. It’s been roughly 3 months of use daily and the collar is doing everything I wanted it to do.
My boy is very adventurous and excitable with animals and other dogs. He is extremely friendly and wants to say hello to everyone and everything.
When I initially did research I saw the other brand gps collars but didn’t like the idea of paying monthly fees. Then I found the pathfinder 2 and it was more than I could ask for.
As a training only collar, I would not choose it, though now with the compass remote that is coming out, I suspect it would be incredible. The app works well and as intended, the gps collar does take a few minutes to connect in cloudy skies but so does anything with gps so I kind of expected that. The efence works well though as others have mentioned it’s kind of difficult to redraw your maps or change boundaries easily, as you have to basically erase the existing map to make a new one. I have trained My dog to recall to the beep. He does not like the vibrate which is what happens at the first boundary, if he goes beyond that it will give him a correction.
My only complaint: I should’ve waited a couple months for the compass but unfortunately I had no clue it was coming.
Wish I had known ! I’ll have to save up to get the connector at some point.
My boy is very adventurous and excitable with animals and other dogs. He is extremely friendly and wants to say hello to everyone and everything.
When I initially did research I saw the other brand gps collars but didn’t like the idea of paying monthly fees. Then I found the pathfinder 2 and it was more than I could ask for.
As a training only collar, I would not choose it, though now with the compass remote that is coming out, I suspect it would be incredible. The app works well and as intended, the gps collar does take a few minutes to connect in cloudy skies but so does anything with gps so I kind of expected that. The efence works well though as others have mentioned it’s kind of difficult to redraw your maps or change boundaries easily, as you have to basically erase the existing map to make a new one. I have trained My dog to recall to the beep. He does not like the vibrate which is what happens at the first boundary, if he goes beyond that it will give him a correction.
My only complaint: I should’ve waited a couple months for the compass but unfortunately I had no clue it was coming.
Wish I had known ! I’ll have to save up to get the connector at some point.
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Response from developer
Thank you for your feedback. Both the receiver and the app you are using are fully compatible with the Compass. Please note that the E-Fence feature is continuously being improved to enhance performance. We appreciate your input and are always working to make our products better.
Pathfinder 2
The app is great but the collars are slow to connect and wish the maps were more clear other than that love the pathfinder 2.
