Always done what I need flawlessly
I’ve got three dogs, all very obedient. One of them though, is completely deaf. And she’s not the kind of dog to run off, but she’s extremely nosey and loves just rummaging through things. Couple times she just wandered off the property, never more than a handful of houses away. But I’m 5-6 houses away from the main loop of a large neighborhood just outside Orlando, moderate levels of traffic.
I was walking two of my dogs one time and I came back to the front door wide open and the deaf girl (Yue), was gone. She can get just about anything open, including round door knobs by turning it with her whole mouth, so who knows if she got it open or if didn’t latch entirely.
One of the most common causes of deaths in deaf dogs is wandering into roads and getting hit, so I’m panicking and trying to pull out my phone. As soon as I saw on app that she went left down the other residential street instead of main road, I immediately knew she was okay, and was likely just in someone’s bushes a couple houses down. Get maybe 5-6 properties down, and see her just casually sitting in someone’s front yard watching a son and dad throw a football.
But tonight, was the first time I really needed all the major GPS features. We had a long day of traveling, get home at 3 am, I just open the door and let them out of the truck, and the deaf dog runs straight into next door neighbors bushes immediately after re-entry and completing landing. But then she sees lights moving down wall from headlights way down the road, and runs between w couple houses and my pit follows. By the time I got around I can’t see Yue at all and my pit, Lily, is kinda waiting for me and kinda wanting to figure out what Yue is doing. Half listening half trying to stick with Yue.
Next thing I know, I can’t see either of them. Main road two houses down, pond to my left, abandoned golf course with coyotes in the abandoned golf course that’s to my back.
I’ve never seen Yue even try to go into the main road or across it, and she hasnt run off in 3 years at this point outside the one instance watching football.
Open up the app, it says that they not only crossed the main road in front of me, but then went down a block and took the next left, and they’re almost a whole 2 blocks down that direction at this point.
Didn’t even think it was right, there’s no way they’ve done that far, it’s been less than 3 mins probably, that can’t be right. Realize I need truck, run back to house, where Xena, my oldest, is sitting on the front porch waiting for me, and I knew she would be. So glad I was able to trust that she’d stay there.
Let her in, jumped in truck and just went down two blocks from main road, passed them and then came down road they’re on, trying to catch them head on.
Had the lost function and lost light enabled, and I can see it’s pinpointing it more, clearly the pin was more detailed than normal mode, but I still couldn’t believe they made it that far that quickly. Pull up to stop sign, Lily is right there to my right, and I see Yue is going through driveway next door…..rummaging through their bushes. As soon as Yue turned and saw me, she just ran straight back to me immediately like it never happened 😅
She’s very nosey and curious, but after a long and stressful day for all of us, she went 10x’s further than before, or than I would have imagined her going. It’s a very abnormal thing for both of them, and I couldn’t believe they got that far. And Lily would have never done that on her own. So I never really expected to need the lost function like that. I only had it because I can’t call Yue vocally and felt like it was just a good idea to have, not because of their typical behavior.
Having Fi made something extremely stressful and momentarily terrifying, easy to resolve, with impressive accuracy, and very quickly. I appreciate the quality of the features of these collars so much. Without them, this evening could have gone many other ways. Most probably would have ended very differently. Especially after tonight, I can only recommend you try it. Even if you think you don’t need it.
*sorry, I can’t comment on anything without giving the entire context for some reason. If you read all that, I’m impressed*
I was walking two of my dogs one time and I came back to the front door wide open and the deaf girl (Yue), was gone. She can get just about anything open, including round door knobs by turning it with her whole mouth, so who knows if she got it open or if didn’t latch entirely.
One of the most common causes of deaths in deaf dogs is wandering into roads and getting hit, so I’m panicking and trying to pull out my phone. As soon as I saw on app that she went left down the other residential street instead of main road, I immediately knew she was okay, and was likely just in someone’s bushes a couple houses down. Get maybe 5-6 properties down, and see her just casually sitting in someone’s front yard watching a son and dad throw a football.
But tonight, was the first time I really needed all the major GPS features. We had a long day of traveling, get home at 3 am, I just open the door and let them out of the truck, and the deaf dog runs straight into next door neighbors bushes immediately after re-entry and completing landing. But then she sees lights moving down wall from headlights way down the road, and runs between w couple houses and my pit follows. By the time I got around I can’t see Yue at all and my pit, Lily, is kinda waiting for me and kinda wanting to figure out what Yue is doing. Half listening half trying to stick with Yue.
Next thing I know, I can’t see either of them. Main road two houses down, pond to my left, abandoned golf course with coyotes in the abandoned golf course that’s to my back.
I’ve never seen Yue even try to go into the main road or across it, and she hasnt run off in 3 years at this point outside the one instance watching football.
Open up the app, it says that they not only crossed the main road in front of me, but then went down a block and took the next left, and they’re almost a whole 2 blocks down that direction at this point.
Didn’t even think it was right, there’s no way they’ve done that far, it’s been less than 3 mins probably, that can’t be right. Realize I need truck, run back to house, where Xena, my oldest, is sitting on the front porch waiting for me, and I knew she would be. So glad I was able to trust that she’d stay there.
Let her in, jumped in truck and just went down two blocks from main road, passed them and then came down road they’re on, trying to catch them head on.
Had the lost function and lost light enabled, and I can see it’s pinpointing it more, clearly the pin was more detailed than normal mode, but I still couldn’t believe they made it that far that quickly. Pull up to stop sign, Lily is right there to my right, and I see Yue is going through driveway next door…..rummaging through their bushes. As soon as Yue turned and saw me, she just ran straight back to me immediately like it never happened 😅
She’s very nosey and curious, but after a long and stressful day for all of us, she went 10x’s further than before, or than I would have imagined her going. It’s a very abnormal thing for both of them, and I couldn’t believe they got that far. And Lily would have never done that on her own. So I never really expected to need the lost function like that. I only had it because I can’t call Yue vocally and felt like it was just a good idea to have, not because of their typical behavior.
Having Fi made something extremely stressful and momentarily terrifying, easy to resolve, with impressive accuracy, and very quickly. I appreciate the quality of the features of these collars so much. Without them, this evening could have gone many other ways. Most probably would have ended very differently. Especially after tonight, I can only recommend you try it. Even if you think you don’t need it.
*sorry, I can’t comment on anything without giving the entire context for some reason. If you read all that, I’m impressed*
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FI
Great tracker long lasting charge
Horrible app. Don’t buy
App forces you to allow permanent gps access or it will refuse to open. Not the collar gps. Your phone’s gps. You can’t select “while using”.
I would be totally fine if the app puts a warning that says “hey, if you don’t share your phone’s location permanently the battery or your device will last significantly less!”.
But no. They force that choice upon you.
Also, the app forces you to give them a credit card to subscribe, even if you have a year of free membership through your purchase.
Finally, the app forces you to participate in the social / tracking / etc. They’re not optional. They force you to give them a picture of your dog!!!, tell you breed, age, weight…
I wanted a simple gps collar. Got this load of data grabbing crapware instead.
It’s being returned.
I would be totally fine if the app puts a warning that says “hey, if you don’t share your phone’s location permanently the battery or your device will last significantly less!”.
But no. They force that choice upon you.
Also, the app forces you to give them a credit card to subscribe, even if you have a year of free membership through your purchase.
Finally, the app forces you to participate in the social / tracking / etc. They’re not optional. They force you to give them a picture of your dog!!!, tell you breed, age, weight…
I wanted a simple gps collar. Got this load of data grabbing crapware instead.
It’s being returned.
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I must have for a Dutch Shepherd
Peace of mind
Mediocre at best
The collar works most of the time as advertised. However the company makes it nearly impossible to cancel or change the service. It doesn’t really work if you have a dog sitter even with a safe zone setup. Also always requires location service on the phone drains the battery unnecessarily.
