Dog GPS Collar, which is best?

[banzai]

Dog GPS Collar, which is best?

My dog has a strong prey drive and will chase anything that moves fast, delivery trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, joggers, other dogs, small wild game, etc.

I keep her on a retractable 16 ft leash at all times outdoors except when she is in an enclosed area.

I'm going to take her to a remote location in Colorado where she can be off-leash. What would be the best GPS collar to have on her in case she runs off?

Should I just keep her on leash 100% of the time?

[Sackett]

It sounds like she needs training a heck of a lot more than a gps collar. If she won’t “come” when you call her, a gps collar isn’t going to do you any good other than to see where she’s at until she gets out of range. I would focus on using a long leash and doing some treat incentive training to “come” or “here” commands. As far as a gps collar, Garmin is where it’s at and you can spend as little as $450 up to $1,200+.

[justletmein]

I have the Tractive for my old girl just in case she doesn't come back after running off hogs and yotes at camp. It's got an option to stay in battery saver mode if it can see your Wi-Fi, monitors activity and such, and has automated alarms if the dog leaves a yard sized area. You can manually start live tracking and it's fairly accurate but I believe it needs cell service to track live, otherwise you can see where the dog went once the collar comes back into cell range.

[Passthrough]

Garmin

[68rustbucket]

Garmin with tracking and training capabilities.

[caughtandhobble]

Garmin is the only "modern GPS" tracking system that have used, they're great... I would start a crash course training session concentrating on her recall.

[SaltwaterSlick]

Something else to think about...
That GPS will tell you where the dog is, but will not bring it back to you... "Come" or "here" is what does that... A way to do that at greater distance and with more authority is a whistle... a good old standard police or coaches whistle (Acme Thunderer). I have trained all of my own dogs, mostly retreivers, but a couple tracking dogs as well... All are excellently trained for obedience and are well-behaved dogs, even my wife's little yep-yep (miniature Schnauzer) is whistle trained to "Come"... Our dogs sometimes will ignore or not respond to voice commands, but they 100% obey the whistle. IF they hear that whistle, they not only come, they come running in... This was accomplished by a combination of reward for good and stern discipline when we knew they deliberately disobeyed...

They can hear a whistle a LOT further than you yelling "COME" or "HERE" at the top of your voice... I use the Garmin Alpha 200 for my lab and tracker (Lab is a tracker too). It's an excellent GPS/training collar and in reality is probably more than I'd ever need, but I like good equipment... Garmin is great GPS equipment and they bought out Tri-Tronics, the Cadillac of training collars... They combined them both into the Garmin Alpha series...

I'd highly recommend you start to train your dog(s) with a whistle, at least on the "Come" command AND get a GPS tracking collar... Even then, you're not 100% guaranteed to get your dog back if it wanders off, but its about the best odds you'll ever get if it's off leash.