Tabcat Bundle with 2 extra tags and 2 extra cases

We have a number of cats that are free ranging on our property and we are able to keep tabs and locate them with this system. We have used it for years (earlier system). Cats can wear the collars with out problems and safely on break away collars when they get tangled in deep brush. Recommend the product highly. Just order batteries to go with the unit or get locally. Patience in first setting up the system per cat and listen for the beeps

Love the Tabcat. Wish It had more options since I have more than 4 cats. Works great to find hiding cats when I need to find them fast. Recommended to anyone for their pets.

Very limited use. Found out the hard way that it's not good for finding lost pet. I bought these before I moved hoping if one of my kitties got out and lost I'd have a way to find them. It's too limited in distance. If my cat was that close he'd come running to me. It's good to use to make sure my kitties are all in for the night. When they are close to the house I can see it and call them. But I have a lost kitty out there somewhere and no way to find him. I wish I could've afforded a locating system with GPS and longer tracking distance ability. I'm heartbroken. :_(

This is the best product for indoor/outdoor cats. When you activate the remote, the tab on the cat's collar makes a sound so the cat knows to come home. If the cat is being stubborn or is up a tree, the remote will guide you right to them!

The Range is more like 50’ in normal situations - it is farther line of site but not much.So far the batteries have held up and we have had a few panic situations finding our cats and the Tabcat system came thru - just be patient, turn and move slowly until you see one of the led’s light up and then it’s game on.My cat was not happy with the collar beeping but I was happy with how well it worked.

Update October 2012 (18 months)I've now had this product for over 18 months and changed my review from one to five stars, here's why.On complaining to Tabcat about the problems stated below, they sent me a new (updated) unit. I've now been using and testing the new unit for over a year and a half.I have to say I cannot fault the new unit.The batteries lasted well over a year and the units have worked consistently. Many times I have used them to call my cats, they usually come running immediate and it's always easy to locate them. As we are traveling all the time, there are many occasions when I want to locate the cats, so I use them more frequently than the average user I would think.All in all I am very please with these units.-------------------------------------------------------------------------I purchased these in July so I have now used them for 3 months.Unfortunately I am very disappointing with them. They are simply unreliable. I've gone through two controllers and six remotes. I even went as far as purchasing an additional controller to act as a back-up (that's the one I am using now). The first unit was replaced by the manufacturer. The biggest problem is that they work fine until they don't. They just suddenly stop and you can bet they will stop when you need them most. You can't tell they are not working you just do not seem to be able to locate your cat. You assume they must not be in range. Only when the cat finally turns up, you then realize the unit has stopped working.The idea is good, when they work they are quite good. The trouble with something like this is that you need them to work in a pinch, that's when they seem to fail. I travel about in a motor-home so when we are about to leave I need to be able to locate my cats.In the three months I have owned them, three out of four times I have needed them they have simply stopped working and needed to be replaced.Final verdict - good idea, very bad reliability.If you want something like this to use as a toy for a month or two they may be okay. Don't buy this product if you want something you can rely on.ProsThey work really wellThe range is excellent, from inside my house I get a signal when the cats are about 4 houses away and not in direct line of sightIt's easy to train cats to come just by pressing a buttonThey are reasonably small on the cat's collarConsThey are not particularly solidly built; you must use the rubber covers simply to stop them falling apartThe batteries seem to last about a month if you use them every day and fail without warningYou cannot stop them beeping on the cat's collar, warning the cats you are looking for themI bought two of these to keep track of my cats. They work really well; the range is very good. Numinous times I have summoned the cats simply by pressing the button. It's fun to see the LEDs gradually increase as they approach from several houses away.The trick is to press the button every day, at feeding time for a few seconds for a week or two and they totally associate the beeping on their collar with food waiting for them.If you feed your cats by leaving food out for them all the time rather than sticking to meal times this probably would not work.They also work simply to figure where they are by finding their general direction and range with the hand set. So you can go find them.The one caveat to that is that because the unit beeps on their collar they tend to react to that. When I first started using it, it would spook them and they would run and hide. Now they mostly come running when they hear the beep so either way, I rarely get to simply find them and figure where they go.It would be a nice feature if it was possible to turn the beep on their collars on or off at will. A kind of stealth mode option.You cannot exactly creep up on them because as soon as they hear the beeping they know you are looking for them.The cats are pretty smart and will react based on what usually happens then their collars beep. If it's not what they want, there'll simply go in the opposite direction.The units are not sturdy. They tend to fall apart if you do not use the rubber cases.They also get through the batteries very quickly. They seem to last about a month if you use them every day like we do. The batteries are the flat coin shaped 2032s, you can buy a pack of 10 for about $10. One in the hand unit and one in the tag on the collar. So it's not really the cost so much as the inconvenience of having to keep changing them out.The battery will go flat and the unit will not work, exactly the time you really need find the cats the most… There is no indication of battery charge. The units just stop working.While the tags you put on the collar are small enough, they never seem to bother the cats, they could be smaller. When you take them apart (you have to, to replace the battery) it's obvious there is wasted space in the unit. With a little better engineering (on just the plastic housing) they could easily smaller.

I like the product, and absolutely love the idea of it, but really disdain the marketing of it's boastful claim of operating for "up to a 400 foot range"... I've watched several video reviews of the product (on Youtube, etc), and it seems that some people sometimes get quite a good range. But I've been outside in the open-- in the back yard-- with no obstructions whatsoever, and I get a range up to 40 feet, tops. Let me be paint the picture for you a bit clearer: I'm at the edge of my patio, facing into the yard, and the cat (with a Tabcat tag) is in the driveway, straight in front of me by about 50 feet, and with open space being the only thing between us, the cat's tag does not even register on my Tabcat handheld receiver. The mowed lawn is the only thing between the cat and me, that's it. There are no trees, vehicles, tables, or obstructions within an arc that's at least 45-degrees to my left & to my right (in other words, even on the left & right "between" the cat & I are no obstructing items of any kind). So it's quite an open space, and I'm pretty sure that the extraneous Wi-Fi signals or radio signals of neighbors & other town residents should NOT affect the Tabcat's performance, nor should houses or trees elsewhere in the neighborhood. I just don't understand it, given some of the positive reviews and demos seen on Youtube (though admittedly, in retrospect, a couple video reviews there do reveal a range of 50 feet or less). About 10' after I began walking towards my cat & Tabcat tag, the signal was picked-up, and appeared on the handheld receiver as a "distant" red LED accompanied by a low beep, and the unit worked as expected from there... It works great for what it does, and it's almost kinda fun using it. It WOULD be fun using it if the range was better, but you first have to find your cat before you can use this device to-- well-- to find your cat. So instead of fun it was almost frustrating (to discover it's true functionality is literally only ONE TENTH as good as was advertised). Imagine this: If any of the cats are out and not exactly right here, closely in the yard, and are beyond 40 feet from me in ANY direction, I still have no clue where they are and still have no means of locating them. I'm holding this wonderful piece of tech for just about $100 and am still just as lost as I was before buying it, only now I walk around in circles trying to get a signal, to find a cat that was hiding LITERALLY 25 to 30 feet away (as you may know: solid objects-- like a wall, table, or panel of fence-- reduce & impede the signal). It's a shame. It pains me to write this review. I've waited for several days, regularly using & testing the product on my 3 cats in a myriad of situations & locations, but alas nothing has changed. It didn't magically correct itself, and there wasn't just a fluke day or 2 of sunspot interference. In fact, the product itself simply has a lousy range for what it's marketed to do. I love this product, at least conceptually. I neurotically researched dozens and dozens of trackers, looking for one that was small, stylish, affordable, and as safe as can be (because prolonged exposure to GPS & Wi-Fi tech is known to be unsafe to our health. Along with cellphones, I very much enjoy using them all, just like you, because I think they're awesome, just like you, But I cannot just pretend that the evidence & the explicitly stated warnings don't exist. Again, I marvel at the technology we have & use regularly, and love my devices just as much as the next guy... I just question the safety of electro-magnetic waves constantly emitted from a GPS that's been strapped to the base of my kitty's skull. The same might be said for radio-waves, but this Tabcat just SEEMS like it might be "safer" to the cat's health than the GPS/Bluetooth/Wi-Fi products available, if only in my imagination.) Anyhow, I fell in love with what this product was marketed as, and if it had anywhere even CLOSE to a 400' range then it'd probably be my all-time favorite piece of tech ever. I still very much love it, and think that as a locator device-- for, say, keys or indoor cats or whatever-- it's probably quite awesome. But to locate your cat outdoors, I found it to be kind of a joke. It's been a long time that I've felt THIS sad returning an purchase. This thing seems so sweet for so many reasons, & I still want it to be something that it just isn't. I simply want it to be what it says it is.If you-- the consumer-- physically see just how close (or how distant) 40' is from your door (or wherever), and are then OK with a cat-tracker that works only about that far, then I suggest you *do* buy this product. Try it! I love what they've tried to do here. How I see it is that they just haven't quite gotten it *yet*. Maybe an upgraded future model could have an antenna on the receiver! I'm sure this could be hacked at home by a creative thinker who knows electronics, to maybe increase the range. Maybe a future upgrade will have a stronger signal. Anyhow, if you'd be happy with a range of about 40ish feet, then try this. It's awesome. It's just that mine was nonfunctional for ranges beyond this. Sweet little toy though! Just next to useless for finding wandering kitties beyond the immediate property of Suburbia outside.

Has limited range, works for your garden and maybe neighbors garden. Beyond that you are blind to your cats whereabouts as usual.