Your Whistle pet tracker will stop working next month

Tractive is offering Whistle users a escaped replacement favored tracker. | Image: Tractive

Tractive, an Austrian institution that makes smart determination and enactment trackers for dogs and cats, is expanding its beingness successful the US by acquiring a competitor, Whistle, from Mars Petcare. As a effect of the acquisition, the Whistle platform is being unopen down and its favored tracking devices volition halt moving connected August 31st, 2025. Existing Whistle customers tin get a escaped Tractive tracker arsenic a replacement, portion remaining subscriptions “will transportation to your caller Tractive device,” according to the Tractive website.

The escaped replacement devices volition lone beryllium disposable until September 30th, 2025 and volition necessitate Whistle users to register connected Tractive’s level done its website, prime a caller Tractive subscription, and supply the serial fig of their existent Whistle tracker.

Tractive is besides honoring remaining Whistle plans but volition beryllium adding the remaining clip to caller Tractive subscriptions. According to an FAQ the institution shared astir the acquisition, if you person implicit 2 months remaining connected an progressive Whistle plan, your remaining subscription clip volition beryllium transferred to your caller Tractive program and you won’t beryllium charged immediately. If there’s little than 2 months remaining, you’ll request to wage for a caller Tractive program astatine motion up but you’ll get 2 escaped months of work (no substance however overmuch clip you person left) added automatically. 

The company’s Basic subscription program starts astatine $108 if you subscribe for conscionable 1 year, but a 2 twelvemonth program is discounted to $144. That includes GPS determination tracking, bosom and respiratory complaint monitoring, bark tracking, virtual fences and flight alerts, and enactment and slumber monitoring. The pricier Premium program is $120 for 1 year, $168 for 2 years, oregon $300 for 5 years and adds features similar household sharing truthful further radical tin way a pet, worldwide cellular coverage, twelvemonth agelong determination history, and the enactment to export the GPS data.

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