Cat Tracking Collars
Cat tracking collars are -- interestingly enough -- hard to find. Unlike dogs that are large enough to carry a GPS dog tracking collar or even a long range radio tracking collar, domestic house cats are normally not large or strong enough to carry the electronics and battery power supply to support those devices.
There are sites advertising GPS tracking collars for cats. However, they only seem to be available in Europe so if you are in the United States then there does not seem to be a GPS tracking collar solution for you -- at least not yet.
Also, the other problem is that even the European GPS tracking collars are on the large side, weighing between 89g and 110g. 80g is probably the largest device that you would want to put on your cat, unless it is unusually large or strong.
There is another problem GPS tracking collars in general, and that is the monthly costs associated with it. GPS systems typically use the same technology as the cellular phone system and there are associated monthly costs to use the network, just like any cellular phone.
So with today's technology it would seem that the best option for cats is to use a short range radio tracking collar. The advantage of using radio frequencies is that you avoid monthly fees.  And the advantage of using a short range device is that you can make the electronics small and light enough for a cat.
The slight disadvantage to using radio tracking is that you would not be able to pinpoint the device exactly since the radio signal is not transmitting coordinates like a GPS device.Â
However, given the right tracking system you could have a directional tracking device that would tell you the general direction and relative distance.
Today I know of only one such device in the US and that is called the CatLocator.Â
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