I was wondering....There are products on the market that are called dog trackers, that are a collar and a unit that can track your dog in case he runs away. Some of them are just the collar, and you can track them from the web, or by call a phone number,

I was wondering, Is there something that I can buy, that will work with a normal gps, that will allow me to keep tabs on my dog when we go backcountry camping?

I beleive you would have to call into a GPS Tracking Center in order to track your dogs location, regardless of what type of GPS you use (IE: the garmin streetpilot c340). As for using a normal GPS to track your dog, I don't see why this wouldn't be possible, since you can track other things with a normal GPS receiver. The only question would be, how would you securely mount it to your dog? It would really suck if your GPS fell off and was lost forever!

I have a back pack for my D O G. so that would be perfect.

BTW I am totally new to gps, i dont even have one...yet.

So are you saying that I could get 2 gps and put one on my dog and then be able to track him? I am not quite sure what I would need for a beacon that my gps could track

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