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Looks really good, and I'm happy there's an open source version of this. With that said, who's going to put such a big gadget around their cats' neck? I'm envis

by witx 3y ago

Looks really good, and I'm happy there's an open source version of this. With that said, who's going to put such a big gadget around their cats' neck? I'm envisioning a cat getting stuck by that collar somewhere and suffocating. I think in its current version its better for big dogs Still I hope to see new and improved iteration of it!

michelb 3y ago
Looking at some existing tags this one looks small actually.
sillysaurusx 3y ago
They’re pretty tiny. “Mr Lee CatTrack" did this in 2014 with little more than a SIM card and a gps, which was small. This one doesn’t seem much bigger. Back in 2012 I was using a Zoombak for my cats, which was designed for dogs. Eventually one of them started getting less and less fur under his collar because the Zoombak was wiggling back and forth as he was running, causing the collar to chafe. He didn’t seem to mind it though, and eventually he’d recognize my car as I drove to pick him up. He’d jump into the back seat like a dog right when the door opened. I miss that fella.
- michaelt 3y ago
  There's small and there's small. For a traditional cat collar, you might have an engraved nametag the size of a quarter. Even an apple airtag is clunky in comparison - and this thing looks several times the size of an airtag. It's impressively small for something with LTE, and a multi-month battery life, it's just a lot bigger than a quarter.
dhritzkiv 3y ago
Cat collars getting stuck can be a problem regardless of a bulky item being attached (though, it will probably be exacerbated by a tracker), so a breakaway/quick-release collar is a good idea in any case.
- thr0w__4w4y 3y ago
  This is (unfortunately) very, very true. I don't have firsthand experience, thankfully, but 2x secondhand experience, and I cannot think about those two cases without getting tears in my eyes. It's not common, but uncommon things happen all the time in large populations.

by witx 3y ago

michelb 3y ago

Looking at some existing tags this one looks small actually.

sillysaurusx 3y ago

They’re pretty tiny. “Mr Lee CatTrack" did this in 2014 with little more than a SIM card and a gps, which was small. This one doesn’t seem much bigger. Back in 2012 I was using a Zoombak for my cats, which was designed for dogs. Eventually one of them started getting less and less fur under his collar because the Zoombak was wiggling back and forth as he was running, causing the collar to chafe. He didn’t seem to mind it though, and eventually he’d recognize my car as I drove to pick him up. He’d jump into the back seat like a dog right when the door opened. I miss that fella.

michaelt 3y ago
There's small and there's small. For a traditional cat collar, you might have an engraved nametag the size of a quarter. Even an apple airtag is clunky in comparison - and this thing looks several times the size of an airtag. It's impressively small for something with LTE, and a multi-month battery life, it's just a lot bigger than a quarter.

dhritzkiv 3y ago

Cat collars getting stuck can be a problem regardless of a bulky item being attached (though, it will probably be exacerbated by a tracker), so a breakaway/quick-release collar is a good idea in any case.

thr0w__4w4y 3y ago
This is (unfortunately) very, very true. I don't have firsthand experience, thankfully, but 2x secondhand experience, and I cannot think about those two cases without getting tears in my eyes. It's not common, but uncommon things happen all the time in large populations.