Your Whistle Pet Tracker Will Stop Working Next Month

Tractive is offering Whistle users a free replacement pet tracker. | Image: Tractive

Tractive, an Austrian institution that makes smart location and activity trackers for dogs and cats, is expanding its beingness successful nan US by acquiring a competitor, Whistle, from Mars Petcare. As a consequence of nan acquisition, nan Whistle platform is being unopen down and its pet search devices will extremity moving connected August 31st, 2025. Existing Whistle customers tin get a free Tractive locator arsenic a replacement, while remaining subscriptions “will transportation to your caller Tractive device,” according to nan Tractive website.

The free replacement devices will only beryllium disposable until September 30th, 2025 and will require Whistle users to register connected Tractive’s level done its website, prime a caller Tractive subscription, and supply nan serial number of their existent Whistle tracker.

Tractive is besides honoring remaining Whistle plans but will beryllium adding nan remaining clip to caller Tractive subscriptions. According to an FAQ nan institution shared astir nan acquisition, if you person complete 2 months remaining connected an progressive Whistle plan, your remaining subscription clip will beryllium transferred to your caller Tractive scheme and you won’t beryllium charged immediately. If there’s little than 2 months remaining, you’ll request to salary for a caller Tractive scheme astatine motion up but you’ll get 2 free months of work (no matter really overmuch clip you person left) added automatically. 

The company’s Basic subscription scheme starts astatine $108 if you subscribe for conscionable 1 year, but a 2 twelvemonth scheme is discounted to $144. That includes GPS location tracking, bosom and respiratory complaint monitoring, bark tracking, virtual fences and flight alerts, and activity and slumber monitoring. The pricier Premium scheme is $120 for 1 year, $168 for 2 years, aliases $300 for 5 years and adds features for illustration family sharing truthful further group tin way a pet, worldwide cellular coverage, twelvemonth agelong location history, and nan action to export nan GPS data.

Although remaining Whistle subscriptions are being honored, Whistle instrumentality warranties are not. When nan trackers are unopen down astatine nan extremity of August they will nary longer beryllium supported. However, nan free replacement devices that Tractive is offering will travel pinch their ain two twelvemonth warranties.