Petrek - Advanced Pet Trackers

25/01/2024

Good morning All,

Unfortunately our website is down at the moment due to a new security update. It shall be back up hopefully by the weekend! We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Grumpy cat is kind of grumpy at the moment because of this!

08/01/2024

Introducing the all new Petrek GPS-4, now with 4G LTE and Built-in Wifi HomeZone Tech!

The outgoing Petrek 3G model which has served thousands of users across New Zealand for the past 8 years can finally get the upgrade it requires. Now with 4G LTE capability to increase coverage, the new built-in HomeZone Wifi means the device will provide much needed accuracy and battery efficiency for pet's that stay home more often.

The main difference between the 3G and GPS-4 is that when detected in the home network the GPS shuts down to save significant amount of battery usage (up to 50%!) and the device will let the app know that the device is detected in and around home.

Equally exciting is the launch of our new Petrek AiCam in Q2 of 2024. Is your cat or dog being detected at home via our Petrek GPS-4? Switch to our Petrek AiCam and let our AiCam keep an eye while it turns and follows your cat or dog roaming left, right and centre in the living room! Our New Ai GeoWall will even alert you (if within sight) when it detects your cat or dog jumping out of a window or wandering out the front door! More information will be available closer to the release date!

Be one of the first 100 users today and pre-order your Petrek GPS-4 for Early February delivery. Once the first 100 orders are fulfilled the next pre-order will be late February so be in quick!

https://pettracking.co.nz/products/all-new-petrek-gps-4-pre-order-now

08/09/2023

Happy Friday all !
(Or maybe not so happy, but our technical cat is onto it !)

Due to a recent Android update, especially on Android 13 devices. So you may find that your iPet App notifications might be blocked by the phone with no way to enable it at the current moment.

This is due to a new security update and thousands of apps around the world has been effected and a fix/update is on its way.

You will still be able to track where your furry babies go but do keep in mind the notification may not pop up.

We are confident this issue will be fixed within couple of days. All other users with iPhone and/or Android 12 or under will not have this issue.

Have a lovely weekend all !

18/07/2023

Dear Fur Family,

It's been a while since we've launched new products and there has been some exciting work in the background with a couple of new Petrek devices to launch later in the year.

But one thing we've always faced from time to time is when our wee silly cats' go under someone's house only to get their collars hooked onto something and to come off along with their Petrek units. Which as we know can be hard to find when the GPS signal is blocked. In the past few years we've ended up with home owners approaching us with a very dusty Petrek unit that they found stuck under their house during a rebuild wondering who they belonged to.

So to counter that situation where a unit and collar is found we are now launching a personalised bow collar service where you can print your cat's name and your contact number on the collar. Thus if it's ever found someone where it shouldn't be, there would be a higher chance of someone contacting you about it!

For our own Petrek fans, please use petrek10 in the voucher code section and get an additional 10% off. You're never too early for some Christmas shopping this season we say!

https://pettracking.co.nz/products/cat-collar-polka-dot

31/03/2022

Here is a little Thursday read that we as cat lovers will totally nod to, especially the part where we try to get them to agree on wearing a collar for their own safety!

https://thespinoff.co.nz/pet-week/30-03-2022/i-tried-to-track-my-cats-movements-with-gps-it-didnt-go-well

The Petrek 3G lets you keep an eye on your pet's secret movements. In theory, anyway.

23/12/2021

Dear Petrek family,

It's been a tough year for us all especially with such a long lockdown here in Auckland and we are all glad to be able to get out finally for a breather.

Thou on the positive side we've thoroughly enjoyed getting calls and e-mails from those that found their missing furry family members including one that was stuck in a neighbours wardrobe!

Our team will be on a much needed break until 09/01/2022. However, there will be a couple of key staff on call so if your call does not get through please do contact us via e-mail or our contact us page. Please allow 2-3 working days for orders to be dispatched during this period.

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the team here at Petrek.

-The Petrek Team

17/08/2021

Good Morning All!

We've been here before and we all know how to get through this again.

Remember to charge your Petrek units as often as you can and make sure your furry family members don't wonder too far!

If you require support with your Petrek units remember we are all here to help even when we are home with our families. Our technician will be available throughout with contactless repairs and deliveries.

Orders can still be made and will be contactless deliveries via Courier Post, but expect 1-2 working day delays during the lockdown period.

Thank you all for playing your part in keeping our commuities and furry families safe.

Stay safe, noho haumaru!
-The Petrek Team

21/06/2021

Good Morning all!

The iPet App is currently down due to a security update we did overnight. We expect the app to be up and running later today after midday.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused during this downtime.

Thanks for your understanding and have a great week ahead!

-The Petrek team

14/02/2021

Dear Petrek family,

Since the first Covid19 lockdown in 2020 we have adapted in getting all staff to work from home to reduce contact and keep our staff's families safe. This has not changed and thus we have kept this working model going so that if another lockdown occurs the effect on us would be minimal.

This means, durling the current level 3 restrictions we will still operate as normal and be here for support, warranty, servicing and sales services to keep your furry friends safe.

All our stock will be kept at a warehouse and dispatched via contactless delivery while all repairs and inspections can still be sent directly to our technician, just gives us a call or e-mail us at [email protected]

Thank you all for doing your part and keeping safe!

-The Petrek Team

12/08/2020

Dear Petrek family

As you all are aware of now we're back spending more time at home with our beloved flurries.

Since March this year we have prepared all our key staff to work from home and have not changed since in order to keep our team as safe as possible. This means that all our support services including new orders will still go on while queries will still be answered.

We hope you are all well and again to stay safe and don't panic! We have all done this before and we can surely do it again.

Thank you all for doing your part as responsible pet owners and citizens in overcoming these tough times together.

-The Petrek Team

08/06/2020

Thank you all for taking part in this nationwide recovery to get to where we are today!

As we are down to Level 1 now, business will somewhat get back to normal but staying aware of keeping everything we do clean and sanitised is still a good practice. So the Petrek team will be continuing to trial our work from home scheme with our technicians, support, dispatch and sales working from their own safe locations.

So as a Petrek user you need not worry as the local support team will always be here for you during business hours as we have been for the past 10 years! And boy, what a interesting 10th year it's been!

Thank you all for once again for taking part in this nationwide recovery from COVID-19 and your support for the Petrek team over the years.

As a token of our appreciation, if you require any new Petrek items here is a code for you to receive 10% off on any of our available stock on our website. Simply use the code, petrek10 at the checkout voucher box.

23/03/2020

Hi All,

Due to the current situation with COVID19, Petrek staff will be limited but key staff will be working from home strictly for dispatching orders via courier services. A technician will be on-call and work from home while items will need to be sent by courier services only.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused but we can only do our part to help minimise the spread of COVID19 where possible. This means our responses might be a bit slower than usual but we will still carry on making sure our services are ongoing for our customers.

Thank you and keep safe!
-The Petrek Team

06/01/2020

Happy New Year Animal lovers!

Calling all iPhone users once again. If you are a new or existing user and am trying to download our app and find that is has disappeared, do not worry! This will be back up later today as Apple is doing security maintenence update with apps that include Google maps integrated in them. Please check back in the next few hours or feel free to contact us if you have any issues. Android users are not effected in this update. :)

Thank you all and apologies for the inconvenience.
-The Petrek Team

05/09/2019

Calling All iPhone Petrek users!

Recently depending on the iOS version you are on you may have received a new iPet update that looks completely different to the original iPet app.

There are some bugs on here we are rushing to solve, one is the timezone might be 5 hours behind and the other is the battery bar might be less than what it actually is.

For some that are happy with the new design, feel free to continue using it and for those that prefer the old layout, you can download our iCare app below which is used for our personal trackers but has the exact same layout and logic as the older iPet app version.

Click the link below and add in the tracker on the left menu and you're good to go! Don't forget to go to settings (top right button) and change map to "hybrid" and deactivate "LBS Assist"

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/icare-advanced-gps-tracker/id1149714823

Thank you and apologies for any inconvenience caused!

13/08/2019

𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐤 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟗 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞t𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭.

Thank you to all that commented with awesome pictures of your furbabies during winter! As part of the rules we could only select pictures showing your furbabies and furbuddies enjoying the snow. With that in mind we have received a good number of them that really made us enjoy this whole process so thank you all once again for participating!

Sadly we can only choose one winner at random using a random selection generator.

𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒔
𝗝𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗻

Please send us a private message us so we can be in touch with you on sending your all new Petrek 3G unit!

For the rest of you who so kindly attended the competition we have decided to give you a limited 20% voucher for your efforts! Simply use "petrek20" at the check out voucher box and get a instant 20% off! Offer valid till 14/09/2019

25/07/2019

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞!

𝐖𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐤 𝟑𝐆 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 $𝟐𝟗𝟗!

It's snow season and we've just launched our second generation Petrek 3G as used by thousands of pet owners in Australasia. The newly updated model further improves water resistance and battery life capabilities.

To enter this simply comment with a photo of your snow dog, cat, bunny or even a snow pony!

The winner will be announced on the 8th of August 2019.

If you can't wait this long to win one we are also running a site wide 10% off on the new Petrek 3G and Petrek GPS units. Simply go to www.pettracking.co.nz and get your 10% off using the voucher code "petrek10" today!

15/07/2019

https://www.facebook.com/165752027447751/posts/357532281603057/

Here is a story from our Petrek distributors from across the ditch.

Luckily we don't have kangaroos here, but we have had plenty of customer's doggos run off with rabbits !

Who doesn't love a good ! Here is a story about how Andrew found his beloved with the help of our 3G ! http://tinyurl.com/yyjg7v9u

Standard schnauzer had Petrek tracker on all day from 7 am on normal reporting mode.

Bundled into the car at 2:30 pm for a 3 hour journey home.

Once home, he jumped out of car and disobediently took off immediately after kangaroos in the adjoining paddocks.

I followed on foot and despite my frantic calls couldn’t hear or see him in the quickly fading light.

I didn’t take my phone with me as it was unpacked and in the house already and I was, what I thought was, quickly on his heels.

After trekking across about a km of paddock, roaring, I returned home to get phone and iPet app.

Now he’s missing for almost an hour, in the pitch black and fit enough to chase roos for hours on end.

You can’t imagine the relief when the app showed his location. About 2km away, over hills, fences and dale.

Off I go forcing my blue dot location towards his red dot, hoping the battery, that was 100% at 7am, would last after I swapped reporting over to urgent mode.

It did. In the pitch black now I find he had a kangaroo bailed up on a dam bank. No bark left as he was exhausted, so I only located him due to PETREK and the iPet app.

No harm done to either animal, just me. A hammy and a lost voice but a found dog.

02/07/2019

Here is a interesting Hump day story! Last time we had a similar story to this one it was a lost collar found on the tallest tree branch over 20 metres up.

Lucie recently messaged us asking if we are able to help track her cat's lost collar as Immy had returned home without it.

Interesting enough she had thought someone had taken it as it was moving from one point to another instead of staying in one place like they normally do when they fall off.

We then helped Lucie set the tracker to urgent mode which prompts the tracker to use more power but hunt down more signals to try get as much accuracy as it can provided there is good reception.

This was what Lucie messaged us an hour later.

"𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭! 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭. 𝐀𝐬 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐆𝐏𝐒 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞. 𝐈 𝐦𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐦𝐦𝐲, 𝐬𝐨 𝐈 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐟 𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫. 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐰. 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭! 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐬𝐨 𝐈'𝐝 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲. 𝐒𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐈 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 🙂 "

So now we've heard everything from a lost collar up on the highest branch of a tree and down to the claws of another cat.

We are just glad Immy is home safe! :)