Halo Collar Blog

Every GPS signal your dog’s collar receives has travelled roughly 12,550 miles through space and Earth’s atmosphere, and it arrives slightly late and slightly bent. That small distortion is why ordinary GPS is only approximately right. GPS-enabled smartphones are typically accurate to within about 4.9 meters (16 feet) under open sky, according to GPS.gov, the U.S. government’...

No – a Halo Fence keeps enforcing your dog’s boundary without cellular service, because the fence is stored on the collar and the feedback runs there too. What needs a connection is your view of it – live location and alerts on your phone. That surprises most dog parents, and the assumption behind it is reasonable – a collar with a SIM card and LTE looks like...

When the battery runs out, the collar stops giving feedback and stops reporting your dog’s location, so your dog is outside with no active boundary until it is charged again. The fence itself stays saved on the collar. What happens next depends on three things: how well your dog has been trained to the boundary, whether the low-battery warnings reached you in...

Setting up a GPS dog fence means charging the collar, pairing it with the app, drawing a boundary with room to spare, choosing feedback settings for your dog, and walking the line yourself before training begins. The technical part takes minutes; the training takes weeks. There are no wires to bury and no base station to place: the collar works out its own po...

With Halo Collar 5, the cues start before the line: Warning, then Boundary feedback as your dog keeps going. If they cross, Emergency feedback continues while they move away, you get a notification, and the moment they turn back, prevention stops and encouragement begins. Past the Protection Zone, about 300 feet beyond the fence, the collar switches to a calm...