About Connected Pet Guide

Connected Pet Guide is an independent guide to connected pet products used in UK homes: GPS trackers, pet cameras, smart feeders, microchip cat flaps, automatic litter boxes and water fountains.

The name is literal. The products are connected, to a microchip, a battery, a mobile network, a Wi-Fi router or a subscription, and the guide is about what that connection does and where it stops.

How the guides are written

By the Connected Pet Guide team. We have not tested the products. Where a page names a figure, it comes from a maker's manual, a maker's help page, a shop page, or an official body, and the page says when we opened it. Where we could not check a figure, we leave it out.

Prices, when we give them, are the band or the listed amounts on the shop page we opened, with the date. They are not a promise of what you will pay tomorrow. On 14 November 2026 the only shop prices in the guides are from the Sure Petcare UK page for one microchip cat flap and the accessories listed beside it. Tractive's help centre, opened the same day, said subscription prices vary by plan, billing interval and country, and it did not publish one sterling price, so we do not invent one.

What this site is not

We are not a veterinary practice, we do not sell the products, and we do not book installers. An app reading is not a diagnosis. If an animal is injured, ill, or may have swallowed a battery, contact a vet. The RSPCA points owners to the RCVS find-a-vet register at findavet.rcvs.org.uk. We do not give wiring instructions.

England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland do not always share the same pet rules. Where a page cites the Microchipping of Cats and Dogs (England) Regulations 2023, that instrument applies in England. GOV.UK is cited for the UK-wide summary it publishes.

Where it is going

The site has 16 guides, plus a knowledge base, a glossary and a subscription calculator that adds the figures you type. If something is wrong, or you want a topic covered, write to webmaster.jarvis@gmail.com.

There are no affiliate product links on the site. See the affiliate disclosure.