As a fitness editor and a marathon runner, it was only a matter of time before I started tracking my dog’s steps, as well as my own. My partner has joked for years that I’m one step away from buying our cocker spaniel, Toby, one of the best fitness trackers, or setting him up a Strava account, so when the PitPat GPS tracker landed on our doorstep, the best he could muster was a quiet ‘of course you have’.
Undeterred, I strapped the little tracker to Toby's collar and set out for a run around our local woods. After a week of testing, Toby had clocked a total of 62 miles with the device — which is a hell of a lot further than I'd run. Here are the pros and cons of the dog tracker and what surprised me most.
