We blew some money on our livestock guardian dogs because one keeps getting out and taking everyone else with him, abandoning them and coming back on his own without the others.
After it happened for the second time we have doubled down and will be purchasing tracking collars- we plan on rehoming the ring leader. but he’s very difficult to keep entertained enough to keep at home. So atleast while he is here he needs to have a tracker. He’s not interested in guarding my goats and it’s why I think he don’t wanna stay his favorite things are coming in the house uninvited and wandering around to every farm in the vicinity. He just wants to hang out and be a family farm pet and I don’t hate him for it or anything. But I’d rather not keep him around if it means my other ones will stay where they belong and not out playing on the highways.
We bought the pet link GPS tracking collars but it’s been a nightmare and I’ve barely had them for a week. For Some reason the app toggled on active tracking mode on its own, and killed the collar on one of the dogs, now I can’t get it to come back online, not to mention it is highly inaccurate on their position at almost all times. It put one of them over 25mins away in on one update, and 10 minutes later said they were back home, they would’ve had to have been traveling over 60mph to achieve that. And I refuse to believe that and believe it’s much more feasible to say that the collar is just junk.
Any recommendations for rural areas. I’ve got atleast 2 to track but I’d like all 4 of mine to have collars. I can’t stop them from escaping, they either dig under or climb right over it even though the fence is electrified for my goats, and it’s not readable right now to fence in all 10 and a half acres with 6ft tall fencing right now.
I’ve had experience with FI- but they are terrible and also not as accurate as I’d like.