Apart from that being displayed in the app, what you enter doesn't seem to matter - but it has to be a valid address. The app will insist on you entering a recognizable address for the safe place, which will naturally never match your campsite.
#WHISTLE PHONE REVIEW UPDATE#
If you fail to update the location of the safe place, Whistle will see your wifi, assume it's stationary, and show your dog on the map at the previous campsite. The app will move the old safe place to your current location, and you can adjust the size & shape if needed, and finally tap Save. The easiest way to work around this is to have just one "safe place" for all your camping, and when you arrive at a new campsite, go in the mobile app, edit the safe place, and tap the "locate me" icon. That's great for when your dog is staying at your friend's house for the day, but Whistle thinks all wifi access points are stationary, and that's just not true for RVers. Each "safe place" is associated with one wifi access point and vice versa. The Whistle service and app come with typical assumptions about stationary life. What we don't love: Not built for active travel These are examples of phone notifications. Currently, Mushy is on a 24-day activity streak and has traveled 96 miles in the past 27 days. Since I do 75% of Mushy's walking, I've ended up using the Whistle as MY personal activity tracker too! I used to have a FitBit but it broke, and I find this to be more fun. Longer term, it'll tell you how much rest your dog gets, calorie burn, etc. Here's an example of me being at the RV, while the dogs are on a walk with Tommi. It has great notification capabilities which alert you to when your dog is "on the move," who they are with, what type of activity they're doing. He's put his Whistle through the water wading and rolling in dirt test, and Lily has put hers through an actual swim test. We love this feature because Mushy is essentially part fish. The Whistle 3 is rugged and waterproof (rated IPX7) which means it can be immersed in up to 1 meter (3 feet) of water. Mushy and Lily have had their Whistle's for about a month now. Because it uses the AT&T network, you can track your pet's location "down the street or 3,000 miles away!" (Assuming the battery doesn't run out.) The Whistle 3 is a rectangular device that attaches to your dog's collar and tracks their activity and location. Those are very expensive though, and you need to carry the receiver, so we decided to try out a GPS device first - the Whistle 3. Originally we were looking at the hunting dog style devices that don't rely on a cell signal. "Let me tell you what YOUR dog just did."īoth dogs are microchipped and always have identification on their collars, but I think those two "naughty dog" events pushed us to finally up our game and buy the dogs some kind of tracking device. Needless to say, when they returned to the RV Tommi was not a happy camper. Tommi didn't have his phone and was wearing his thin-soled running sneakers when he had to go on a 15-minute off-trail expedition hiking through cactus-riddled woods in search of Mushy. He had been behaving better lately, so on a recent jog around a lake with Tommi, he was enjoying some off-leash stick fetching when he spotted a deer. We usually only let him off leash for longer times in desert environments where we have visibility for miles, just in case he takes off running and we have to go catch him. Most of the time she's in "lazy potato" mode.Īnd Mushy - well, he loves us, but he's not as much of a "velcro dog" as Lily is, and his recall is worse.
She's a very slow potato and basically anything can outrun her.) We usually don't have to worry about Lily running off. Eventually, she returned - from the opposite direction we thought she went in - tongue sideways, happily panting and still on a "chippy high." (Important note: No chippies have ever been harmed by Lily.
Calling her name, Tommi went traipsing through the woods while I stayed behind at the last spot where we saw her. The longest we've lost Lily was for about 10 minutes in the woods while in Mammoth Lakes, CA as she darted off on a frenzied "chippy" chase. Lily is a good girl, but when she sees critters that we've labeled "chippies" (chipmunks, ground squirrels, prairie dogs, etc.) she draws the line and crosses into.
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