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PetPace 3.0: Monitor Your Pet's Health at Home
Your Pet Can't Always Tell You When Something Changes. A Daily Record of Their Health Can Help You See What Memory Alone Might Miss
At a Glance: What PetPace 3.0 Helps You Watch
PetPace 3.0 is built around a simple problem: you can watch your dog or cat closely and still miss what changes slowly—or what happens while you are asleep, at work, or simply looking somewhere else.
Worn through ordinary days and nights, the collar follows patterns in your pet's body and daily life, learns what is usual for your pet, and builds a record over time. It cannot tell you why something changed. You add what only you can know about the day. Your veterinarian decides what the record means.
Signals from the body. PetPace follows pulse, breathing, heart rate variability (HRV), and temperature readings taken at the neck, collecting data every two minutes. The value is not one isolated number. It is about seeing whether a pattern begins to move away from what’s normal for your pet.
Signals from everyday life. Activity, posture, and sleep add another part of the story. A dog taking shorter walks, a senior cat spending less time upstairs, or a stretch of restless nights can become a pattern you can track, rather than something you try to reconstruct from memory weeks later.
Your pet’s own normal. PetPace compares change with your pet’s history rather than asking every dog or cat to look alike. Its learning process, called the Journey, takes about 12 weeks to develop. Days with at least 18 hours of wear count toward that process, so consistent wear matters.
Insights and alerts. After the Journey develops, the app adds personalized insights, scores, and alerts to highlight changes in the record. An alert does not tell you what is wrong. It tells you there may be something worth looking at more closely.
Extra monitoring for particular concerns. PetPace also offers programs aimed at concerns such as chronic joint pain, diagnosed epilepsy, and pregnancy. These tools can add information to the health record, but they do not diagnose a condition or replace veterinary care.
A record you can bring to your veterinarian. Share With Your Vet can give a participating clinic access to your pet’s health timeline. Access to the record does not mean someone at the clinic is continuously watching it, so ask your veterinarian whether—and how—they would use it. PetPace also includes access to AskaVet for general veterinary guidance.
What ownership requires. The value of a long-term record depends on wearing the collar consistently. Expect regular charging, Wi-Fi or cellular connectivity for timely data and alerts, and a required subscription in addition to the collar's cost.
What it costs. The PetPace 3.0 collar costs $299 and requires a prepaid membership. A one-year membership costs $300, bringing your first-year total to $599 before taxes. You can also choose a two-year plan for $699 total or a three-year plan for $799 total, including the collar. After your initial membership term, renewal costs $200 per year. Plans renew automatically, so check current prices and cancellation terms before buying.
Location is secondary. PetPace includes GPS and Safe Zone alerts that can help tell you when your pet leaves an area you set. Those features can be useful backup protection, but they are not the reason to choose this collar. PetPace focuses on noticing health and behavior patterns you might otherwise have to remember.
The simplest way to think about PetPace is this: you still watch your companion. The collar helps you keep the record. Your veterinarian makes the medical judgment.
At a Glance: What PetPace 3.0 Helps You Watch
PetPace 3.0 is built around a simple problem: you can watch your dog or cat closely and still miss what changes slowly—or what happens while you are asleep, at work, or simply looking somewhere else.
Worn through ordinary days and nights, the collar follows patterns in your pet's body and daily life, learns what is usual for your pet, and builds a record over time. It cannot tell you why something changed. You add what only you can know about the day. Your veterinarian decides what the record means.
Signals from the body. PetPace follows pulse, breathing, heart rate variability (HRV), and temperature readings taken at the neck, collecting data every two minutes. The value is not one isolated number. It is about seeing whether a pattern begins to move away from what’s normal for your pet.
Signals from everyday life. Activity, posture, and sleep add another part of the story. A dog taking shorter walks, a senior cat spending less time upstairs, or a stretch of restless nights can become a pattern you can track, rather than something you try to reconstruct from memory weeks later.
Your pet’s own normal. PetPace compares change with your pet’s history rather than asking every dog or cat to look alike. Its learning process, called the Journey, takes about 12 weeks to develop. Days with at least 18 hours of wear count toward that process, so consistent wear matters.
Insights and alerts. After the Journey develops, the app adds personalized insights, scores, and alerts to highlight changes in the record. An alert does not tell you what is wrong. It tells you there may be something worth looking at more closely.
Extra monitoring for particular concerns. PetPace also offers programs aimed at concerns such as chronic joint pain, diagnosed epilepsy, and pregnancy. These tools can add information to the health record, but they do not diagnose a condition or replace veterinary care.
A record you can bring to your veterinarian. Share With Your Vet can give a participating clinic access to your pet’s health timeline. Access to the record does not mean someone at the clinic is continuously watching it, so ask your veterinarian whether—and how—they would use it. PetPace also includes access to AskaVet for general veterinary guidance.
What ownership requires. The value of a long-term record depends on wearing the collar consistently. Expect regular charging, Wi-Fi or cellular connectivity for timely data and alerts, and a required subscription in addition to the collar's cost.
What it costs. The PetPace 3.0 collar costs $299 and requires a prepaid membership. A one-year membership costs $300, bringing your first-year total to $599 before taxes. You can also choose a two-year plan for $699 total or a three-year plan for $799 total, including the collar. After your initial membership term, renewal costs $200 per year. Plans renew automatically, so check current prices and cancellation terms before buying.
Location is secondary. PetPace includes GPS and Safe Zone alerts that can help tell you when your pet leaves an area you set. Those features can be useful backup protection, but they are not the reason to choose this collar. PetPace focuses on noticing health and behavior patterns you might otherwise have to remember.
The simplest way to think about PetPace is this: you still watch your companion. The collar helps you keep the record. Your veterinarian makes the medical judgment.
PetPace 3.0: The Health-Monitoring Collar That Records the Hours You Can’t Watch
Your veterinarian asks you to watch for changes in your pet's health. You notice how they eat, rest, and move through the day, but you cannot remember every small change or observe every hour. PetPace 3.0 helps build a record of vital signs and health patterns over time, giving you information you can follow and share with your veterinarian.
By Michael London, Founder, Companion Safety Lane. Last updated October 15, 2026.
When Your Veterinarian Asks You to Watch Your Pet Closely
Somewhere around eleven, the house gets quiet enough that you can hear her breathe.
You didn’t mean to listen. The lamp is off, and the dishes are done. She is asleep on the rug at the foot of the bed, and one back foot twitches at something in a dream. But earlier this week, the veterinarian asked you to watch her closely for six weeks. Watch her activity, her rest, and her breathing, the vet said, and report anything that lasts. Since then, the sound of her sleeping has become a question. Is that faster than it used to be? Or have you never listened this closely before?
You said yes in the exam room without a pause. Of course you will watch her. You have watched her for years. You know the thump of her tail against the cabinet when you reach for the leash. You know which window she likes in the afternoon, and how quiet she gets when she has done something she shouldn’t have. But that knowledge lives at the edges of her day: the door when you come home, the bowl at dinner, the last walk of the night. At the door, she greets you the same way after a quiet day as after a busy one, so the greeting has never told you which. The middle belongs to her. You are at work, and the house keeps her company. What she does in those hours is something you have never been able to say.
In six weeks, the veterinarian will ask what has changed, and you will want to answer well. You will remember a hard morning, a short walk, a night when she seemed to sleep more. But you won’t be able to say when it began, how often it happened, or whether it was getting better or you had only gotten used to it. Love is an extraordinary instrument for noticing and a poor one for keeping records.
Anne is having this night, too, in her own house, with Rosie on the rug.
Rosie is a brindle dog who came from the shelter five years ago. One ear has never stood up, and her wag seems to apologize for itself. She takes her post at the front window at twenty to six, and when the house goes quiet in the evening, she rests her chin on Anne’s shoe. For most of her life, she took the stairs two at a time and then waited at the top, offended by the delay. On a Tuesday in September, she stopped at the bottom, one paw on the first step, and looked up. “Come on, Ro,” Anne said, and Rosie came, slowly, and neither of them mentioned it.
What Anne remembers now, listening in the dark, is the sentence she told herself afterward. It’s the heat. And then, right behind it, faster than she liked: It’s her age. Underneath both was a question she had not let herself ask. How long had this been going on? She walked Rosie every evening. She would have said she was paying attention.
She knew Rosie better than anyone. What frightened her was discovering how much she still didn't know.
Anne and Rosie are made-up characters, created to show how a family might use PetPace 3.0. They are not real customers. The story does not promise that the collar will spot illness, make a diagnosis, or change an outcome.
The veterinarian examined Rosie from nose to tail and talked through what she thought might be going on. She gave Anne a short list of signs that meant call right away. A follow-up was set for six weeks out. So on Wednesday, Anne started a notebook. Monday: shorter walk. Tuesday: seemed better. Wednesday: slept most of the evening. By Friday, she could see the problem. The notebook held only the moments she happened to be there. The house is empty from half past eight until nearly six, and those hours are white space in the notebook.
Anne’s attention was real. The trouble was only that attention needs a witness, and for most of the day, there isn’t one.
How the PetPace 3.0 Collar Works and Learns Your Pet’s Normal
That is the question PetPace 3.0 was built to help answer. It is a health-monitoring collar for dogs and cats. PetPace says it tracks how much she moves, how deeply she rests, how she breathes, and her pulse and heart rhythm. It also tracks how warm she is and how she lies down. Together, these measurements build a record of an ordinary day, including hours when you are somewhere else.
PetPace also says the collar learns what is normal for the pet wearing it. That matters because the useful question is rarely “Is she like an average dog?” It is “Is she different from how she usually is?” A lively young dog and a quiet senior dog don’t share a routine. Neither do two cats in one house.
Anne asks the clinic whether they ever look at data from a collar like this. The receptionist says the doctor will look at whatever an owner brings. So Anne orders one.
The collar doesn't recognize Rosie on the first day, and PetPace says so. Basic insights, such as daily activity and sleep quality, show up right away. The more personal features open up slowly as the collar learns her, until all of them are available at twelve weeks. A day counts toward that clock only if the collar is worn at least 18 hours. On the second morning, Anne takes it off for Rosie’s bath and forgets it on the counter until night. That day does not count. She understands that the six-week visit will come before the collar knows Rosie well. It will not come before the collar knows anything. So she keeps the notebook, and she keeps counting breaths at bedtime.
About a month in, Anne opens the app on a Sunday morning with her coffee. Rosie is asleep with her chin on Anne’s foot.
She scrolls back through the daily activity summaries. The first two weeks look much alike, one day nearly the same as the next. Then the line begins to bend. Over the last ten days, Rosie’s activity has been lower.
Anne reads that twice.
Then she gets the notebook and lays it next to her phone. Tuesday: seemed better. That Tuesday's record is one of the quietest days of the month.
She had been so sure. Every evening, Rosie meets her at the door, tail low and wagging, her good ear at its usual angle. Nothing about that greeting changes. A dog can meet you with all her old joy at the end of a quiet day, and it looks the same as the end of a busy one. Anne had been judging Rosie’s days by their last two minutes.
She counts back to where the line starts to bend. It is the week of the warm spell, the same week she decided it was the heat. Maybe it was. She doesn’t know, and she knows it isn’t her question to answer. But she sits there with the cold coffee and understands that something has changed. She has not found out what is wrong. She has found out when. For the first time, what she can only call a feeling has a date.
On Monday, she calls the clinic. She doesn’t read out numbers. She says what has changed, when it began, how long it has lasted, and what she has seen with her own eyes. Then she asks, “Would you like to see the collar’s record?”
The clinic says yes, as if it were the most ordinary request in the world. It also offers to move her follow-up up to Thursday, so she won’t have to wait six weeks.
Anne hadn’t known she was holding her breath until she let it go.
That afternoon, she enters the clinic’s code in the app and gives her permission.
On the refrigerator, under a magnet shaped like a bone, is the list the veterinarian gave her: struggling to breathe, collapse, not responding. Underneath it, in Anne’s handwriting, is a new line: Don’t check the app. Call.
What PetPace 3.0 Monitors: The Changes You Might Otherwise Miss
PetPace follows several parts of your pet’s health through the day and night. Each measurement adds a piece to the picture. The value is in seeing several pieces change together, and your veterinarian is the one who can tell you what that means.
Activity and Sleep: When Ordinary Days Begin to Change
Activity. PetPace records how much your pet moves throughout the day, including the hours when no one is home. This may help you notice that an older dog is moving less, or that a cat who once wandered through the house now spends longer periods resting. One quiet day may mean little. A gradual change over several weeks can be more useful to discuss with your veterinarian.
Sleep. The collar follows sleep patterns and provides a personalized Sleep Score as its advanced features become available. A pet who begins sleeping differently may be responding to changes in routine, age, discomfort, or other factors. The score cannot tell you which explanation is correct, but a longer record may help you recognize when the change began.
Breathing, Pulse, and Heart Rate Variability
Breathing rate. PetPace monitors respiratory patterns over time. This can be useful when your veterinarian has asked you to watch how your pet breathes while resting or sleeping. Changes in breathing deserve attention, but the collar cannot determine the cause. If your pet struggles to breathe, seek veterinary care immediately.
Pulse. The collar records pulse measurements throughout ordinary activity and rest. A longer pattern may show information that a single measurement during a stressful veterinary visit cannot. A change is something to investigate, not a diagnosis.
Heart rate variability (HRV). Even when the heart beats steadily, the time between beats changes slightly. PetPace follows those differences as another part of your companion's health record. You don't need to interpret the numbers yourself. What matters is whether they contribute to a broader change in breathing, pulse, activity, or the patterns you notice at home. Your veterinarian can help determine what those changes mean.
Temperature and Posture
Temperature-related monitoring. PetPace uses information from the collar, along with factors such as surrounding temperature and activity, to assess your pet's temperature status. Instead of providing a conventional thermometer reading, it uses categories to indicate whether the temperature may be outside the expected range. A concerning result is a reason to check on your pet and contact your veterinarian. It is not a substitute for taking your pet's temperature or having a veterinarian determine whether a fever is present.
Posture, for dogs. PetPace can identify whether a stationary dog is standing, sitting, or lying in different positions. It also describes a Posture Score based on how often the dog changes position. A dog that begins favoring one side or changes positions less often may deserve a closer look, especially during recovery or when mobility is a concern. Posture changes can have many possible explanations, and PetPace documents this feature for dogs, not cats.
The value of these measurements is not any one number. It is the chance to recognize several changes happening together and provide a more complete history to the veterinarian who knows your pet.
The PetPace App: Turning Measurements Into Useful Information
Collecting health information is only the beginning. The PetPace app helps you understand what those measurements mean across the ordinary days you share with your companion. Instead of trying to remember whether your pet was quieter last Tuesday or slept poorly over the weekend, you can look back at what the collar recorded.
Health insights and notifications. PetPace says its system examines several health measurements together and can bring unusual patterns to your attention. A notification is a reason to check on your pet, not a diagnosis or a guarantee that something serious will be detected.
Your pet's changing patterns. As the collar learns what is normal for your companion, you can compare recent days with earlier ones. The app also provides comparisons with animals of similar characteristics and lets you review information across different periods. This can help you recognize when a change began, whether it continued, and what may be worth discussing with your veterinarian. Personalized features become available as your pet progresses through the Journey described earlier.
Wellness Score. After the required learning period, PetPace provides a daily Wellness Score based on several health measurements. Think of it as a starting point for looking more closely, not a verdict on your pet's health. If the score changes, examine the individual measurements and consider what you have noticed at home. Your veterinarian can help interpret the information alongside your companion's health history.
Apple Watch integration. With a compatible Apple Watch, you can view supported health information, including pulse, breathing, HRV, temperature-related data, activity, sleep, and health scores. PetPace also describes notifications through the watch. It is another convenient way to stay informed, but it does not replace the collar, phone app, or membership. Confirm compatibility before purchasing.
Specialized Health Programs: Pain, Epilepsy, and Pregnancy
Beyond everyday monitoring, PetPace offers programs for particular health concerns. These may be especially meaningful to families caring for a dog with ongoing medical needs. Availability, eligibility, and pricing should be confirmed with PetPace before purchasing any one program.
Pain Score. Designed to help identify patterns associated with possible joint pain in dogs. PetPace combines several measurements into a daily score, with lower scores suggesting a greater likelihood of discomfort. This may give owners another way to follow changes in a dog who has arthritis or mobility problems. It cannot identify the cause of pain, and PetPace says its use for measuring response to pain treatment has not yet been validated.
Epilepsy Insights. A beta program intended to identify possible seizure events and preserve a time-stamped record. For a family whose dog has diagnosed epilepsy, information about when an event may have occurred could be useful during veterinary follow-up, especially if no one witnessed it. The app also allows owners to enter events manually. A collar-generated indication is not confirmation of a seizure, and the program is not a substitute for emergency care. PetPace describes limited eligibility and promotional access, so confirm participation requirements.
Pregnancy Monitoring. A program for pregnant dogs that first learns the mother’s individual patterns over approximately 20 days. PetPace says it uses changes in those patterns to provide information about approaching labor. This may help owners and veterinary teams prepare, but it doesn't guarantee timing, and the program doesn't replace veterinary supervision. Confirm the current program price and availability.
These programs illustrate why PetPace is more than an activity tracker. They also show why choosing a health-monitoring collar should begin with a conversation about your own pet’s needs, rather than a promise that technology can identify every medical problem.
Is PetPace 3.0 an Emergency Alert? When to Call Your Veterinarian Instead
PetPace follows patterns over time. It is not an emergency alarm. PetPace’s terms say you may not rely on its services to receive emergency alerts. The collar sends its data in batches, and a quiet app is not proof that your pet is well.
If your pet collapses, struggles to breathe, becomes unresponsive, or has a seizure, call your veterinarian or an emergency hospital right away. Trust what you see.
How to Share PetPace 3.0 Health Data With Your Veterinarian
Your veterinarian sees your pet at appointments. You see your pet at home. Each of you has information the other doesn’t, and until now, your only bridge was your memory.
Here is how Share With Your Vet works:
A clinic signs up for PetPace’s free veterinary platform and gets a code.
You enter the code in the app and give permission.
The clinic can then see vital signs, pulse, HRV, breathing, temperature, posture, activity, alerts, and insights. PetPace says this includes the history from the day the collar was first worn.
The real benefit is that your veterinarian may be able to see what happened between appointments, not just what your pet looks like during an examination. That longer history can be especially helpful when managing a chronic condition, monitoring recovery, or understanding a change that's hard to describe. It gives your veterinarian more context, while leaving the medical judgment where it belongs.
Giving your veterinarian access does not mean someone at the clinic is watching your companion around the clock. Ask when the team would review the information and which changes they would want you to report directly.
Now go back to Anne, on Thursday, in the exam room, at the visit the clinic moved up.
The veterinarian turns her screen so they can both see it. She scrolls through Rosie’s last month the way she’d page through a chart, quickly at first and then slowly. “Is she like this on weekends too?” she asks.
Anne thinks for a moment. “No. She seems more active on weekends, when I'm home.”
They look. Weekends are fuller. The quiet is on weekdays, in the afternoons, in the long empty hours Anne could never see.
The veterinarian doesn’t tell Anne what that means. She says it is a useful thing to know. She tells Anne what she wants to look at next and what she wants Anne to keep watching, and she writes it down. Anne carries a plan out to the car. It is a plan she can follow, because she can finally begin to understand what has been changing in Rosie's days, including the hours she couldn't see for herself. She brings what she knows about Rosie. The collar adds the recorded patterns. The veterinarian reads them against everything else she knows about dogs.
This is a made-up appointment, and it doesn’t promise yours will go the same way. What it shows is who does what. The collar supplies information. The veterinarian supplies the medical judgment.
For your own visit, bring three things:
What you noticed
When it began
The collar’s record for the same stretch
The visit is not the whole idea. PetPace’s pages for veterinarians describe a record that continues between appointments. They describe staying connected with a patient after discharge, monitoring conditions like arthritis over time, and comparing a pet’s patterns before an illness, during stress, and after treatment. Ask your clinic how it would like to use the record, whether between visits or only at appointments. PetPace’s membership also advertises access to licensed veterinary professionals through chat and video when needed. Its terms explain that this service offers general educational guidance, not diagnosis or treatment. Responses are subject to availability, and additional fees may apply. It is meant to support—not replace—the veterinarian who knows your companion.
What Research Says About PetPace: The 2022 Study
When you are caring for a companion whose health may be changing, it helps to know that the technology you are considering has been studied. PetPace has been included in published veterinary research examining how recorded activity and other health measurements may help us better understand changes in a dog's everyday life.
A 2022 study published in Frontiers in Pain Research examined 45 dogs, including 23 living with osteoarthritis pain. Researchers found that dogs experiencing joint pain were generally less active and spent less time standing than healthy dogs. These findings suggest that PetPace can help reveal differences in activity that may be useful when following a dog's mobility and comfort over time.
The research is encouraging, although it was an early study comparing groups of dogs rather than a test of whether the collar could diagnose a condition in an individual pet. Its value for families lies in the possibility of recognizing meaningful changes in everyday patterns and sharing that history with the veterinarian who knows their companion.
For Anne, that distinction matters. PetPace may help her recognize when Rosie's activity begins changing, even during the hours she cannot watch. Instead of trying to remember whether Rosie was quieter last Tuesday, she can bring her veterinarian a record of those days.
That is where technology earns its place in a caring home. It cannot explain every change, but it can help turn scattered observations into a clearer story—one that Anne and Rosie's veterinarian can understand together.
PetPace 3.0 Price, Membership Plans, and Renewal Costs
PetPace has two parts: the collar and a prepaid membership that renews automatically. PetPace’s U.S. pages showed these prices on October 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm them on the collar page before you order.
Collar: $299, shown beside $399 with a “$100 off” offer and no end date. All sizes cost the same.
Membership: $300 for one year, $400 for two, or $500 for three, billed up front.
Every year after that: $200.
With the one-year plan, your first year comes to about $599 before taxes. The two-year plan brings the first two years to about $699. The three-year plan brings the first three years to about $799. These totals are our math. The lower monthly figures PetPace shows are averages of prepaid terms, not monthly prices.
PetPace has also announced that its collar is available through retailers such as Macy’s and Chewy. Before buying from either retailer, check the collar price, membership cost, and renewal terms. They may not be presented the same way as on PetPace’s own website.
Before you pay, check these three things:
What the membership includes. PetPace's required membership supports connected health monitoring, cellular data and GPS services, personalized health insights, alerts, and access to veterinary guidance through the app. You can review the full benefits and available terms on the official PetPace membership page before choosing the plan that best suits your household.
Renewal. PetPace’s terms say you must cancel at least seven business days before renewal.
Separate programs. Confirm the price of the pregnancy and epilepsy programs. PetPace’s pages describe limited-time promotional access or eligibility requirements, so ask what applies to your pet before purchasing.
Living With PetPace 3.0: Fit, Battery Life, Wi-Fi, and GPS
A record is only as good as the household that keeps it going. Four small promises matter most.
A fit your pet won’t notice. PetPace sells three sizes, based on weight and neck size. Check the sizing chart on the collar page. Then check for rubbing, because a pet can’t tell you it hurts. PetPace says the collar is not intended for a leash, so use a separate collar for walks.
A charge you can count on. Battery life depends on how often PetPace sends information and how the collar connects. The company estimates four to six weeks between charges when data uploads every 30 minutes, two to three weeks at 15-minute intervals, and approximately 48 to 72 hours at two-minute intervals. PetPace describes around three weeks as typical use, although your results may differ. A full charge takes about two hours.
The practical trade-off is simple: more frequent updates can mean more frequent charging. Cellular connections also use more power than Wi-Fi. During your first few weeks, watch how the battery performs in your own home and establish a charging routine that fits your companion's day.
A connection you test before you need it. Setup needs a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi network. The collar switches to cellular when no known Wi-Fi is available. PetPace says it can store up to seven days of data and upload it later if it has neither. Test it where your pet really spends her time.
GPS and Safe Zone. PetPace offers a beta feature that can notify you when your pet leaves an area you set and automatically activate Find My Pet, temporarily pausing health monitoring until your pet returns. Below 20% battery, Find My Pet will not start automatically, although you can activate it yourself. Alerts and tracking depend on location and connectivity, so they cannot guarantee an immediate warning or recovery; GPS remains a secondary feature of this health-monitoring collar.
Use the first month on purpose:
Watch the battery through your real routine.
Check the connection in the places where your pet spends the most time.
Learn where the app shows activity and rest.
Ask PetPace a question or two, so you know what it’s like to get help.
If the collar isn't working as expected, contact PetPace promptly.
Is PetPace 3.0 Right for Your Dog or Cat?
PetPace is likely a good match if most of these are true:
Your veterinarian has asked you to follow changes in your pet’s health over time.
You want a better record than memory, and you will bring it to a veterinarian who knows your pet.
Your pet will wear the collar most of the day, and your household will keep it charged and connected.
You are comfortable with the $599 first-year cost and the $200 annual renewal.
If your main need is finding a dog who slips out, keeping a dog from getting out, counting steps, or watching changes in behavior, one of our other lanes is a better place to start.
If you are buying for a cat, fit deserves special attention. PetPace offers a Small collar for cats, and its general collar sizing information lists the Small size for pets weighing 8 to 22 pounds, with a neck measurement of 8 to 12 inches. Those measurements come from the general collar product information, not the dedicated cat page. Measure your cat carefully and confirm the appropriate size with PetPace before purchasing.
If this sounds like your house, take three questions to your veterinarian before you spend anything:
Which changes matter most for my pet?
When should I call?
Does your clinic review information shared through PetPace?
If the answers are encouraging, you can explore PetPace's current collar and membership options. If your veterinarian hasn't asked you to monitor anything specific, begin with that conversation instead. It costs nothing, and it may help you decide whether this level of monitoring would be useful for your companion.
The Hours You Can Finally Understand
Love has always meant paying attention. We learn the sound of a particular set of footsteps, the angle of an ear, the way a dog asks for what she needs. We can't pay attention in two places at once, or during the hours we are required to be somewhere else.
That is the narrow, real thing PetPace offers: a way to keep part of the attention going when you can’t. It will not know Rosie the way Anne does. It can hold a few of the hours Anne misses, so that when the question comes, she has more than a feeling to answer it with.
Twenty to six comes, as always. Anne hears Rosie’s paws before she sees her. By the time the door opens, Rosie is there, one ear up and one ear never, ready to make the day feel ordinary again.
Anne bends to scratch behind the ear that has never stood up. Tonight she knows a little more about the afternoon than a wag can tell her. She decides she can enjoy the greeting without asking it to explain the hours before it.
Rosie doesn’t understand any of that. She only knows that Anne is home, and that the evening has begun.
Sources and References
Rowlison de Ortiz et al., “Initial exploration of the discriminatory ability of the PetPace collar…” (Frontiers in Pain Research, 2022)
How We Researched This PetPace 3.0 Guide
Companion Safety Lane independently researches pet-tracking technology to help families make informed decisions. For this guide, we examined PetPace’s product specifications, membership terms, app features, veterinary data-sharing tools, specialized health programs, and published support documentation. We also examined a 2022 peer-reviewed study to understand what the available research supports—and what remains unproven.
We have not tested the PetPace 3.0 collar, and we have not independently validated its performance. When we write “PetPace says,” that is the maker’s claim. The 2022 study was paid for by a PetPace partner and used PetPace’s collars and data. Features, prices, plans, and policies can change, so confirm current details with PetPace before you buy. Anne and Rosie are fictional, and their story does not show the collar diagnosing illness or leading to any outcome.
We also examined PetPace’s product announcements through October 7, 2026, including its Safe Zone feature and expanded retail availability.
If we earn a commission from a link, it does not change what we write.
PetPace 3.0: Technical Specifications and Ownership Guide
Companion Safety Lane · Health Monitoring
Reviewed October 15, 2026, against PetPace first-party sources and cited clinical research. Prices, plans, beta programs, software requirements, and package contents can change over time. Always confirm current details directly with PetPace before purchase.
This guide accompanies our detailed PetPace 3.0 editorial article. While our article examines what longitudinal health trends mean when tracking subtle changes in your pet, this guide provides direct, practical answers to everyday ownership questions: Will it fit? What does it measure? What are the subscription terms? What are the hardware limitations? And where does the published evidence stop?
By Michael London, Founder, Companion Safety Lane. Last reviewed October 15, 2026.
Our research approach: Companion Safety Lane examined PetPace's published product specifications, support documentation, subscription terms, and available clinical research. We have not personally tested the PetPace 3.0 collar or independently validated its performance. Manufacturer claims are identified as such, and features, prices, and policies should be confirmed before purchase.
The Quick Facts
Who it’s for: Dogs and cats. PetPace offers a Small collar for cats, but proper fit must be confirmed before purchasing.
What it is: A health-monitoring collar for dogs and cats that tracks pulse, breathing, activity, and temperature-related patterns. It also includes GPS location features. Its temperature monitoring does not replace a veterinary thermometer.
Sizes: Small, Medium, and Large, chosen by weight and neck size.
Water rating: IP66 and IP68.
Battery: PetPace estimates 4–6 weeks in Standard mode, 2–3 weeks in Rapid mode, and 48–72 hours in Intensive mode. Its general product guidance states up to 3 weeks. Actual battery life depends on settings, connectivity, and use.
Network: Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz only) and 4G LTE Cat-M1 cellular. The cellular service is built in.
Collar price: $299, marked down from $399. A “$100 off” banner shows with no end date.
Subscription: Required. $300 for one year, $400 for two years, or $500 for three years, paid up front. Then $200 a year.
In the box: The collar, a charging cable, a quick start guide, and a power adapter (U.S. orders only).
Warranty: One year from purchase.
Where it’s sold: The U.S., Canada, and Europe.
What It Does
Health readings. PetPace tracks pulse, heart rate variability (HRV), breathing, and temperature-related patterns. The collar collects measurements every two minutes, but that does not mean the app receives new information every two minutes. Temperature monitoring does not replace a veterinary thermometer.
Activity and sleep. PetPace tracks movement, activity, sleep patterns, posture, and estimated calories burned. It also provides activity and sleep scores to help you follow changes over time. These scores are not medical diagnoses, and a change in either score does not establish that your pet is ill.
GPS. PetPace includes GPS location tracking and cellular service with its required membership. Location features are available from the first day, but tracking depends on the collar's connection and ability to determine its location. GPS can help you locate your companion, but it cannot guarantee an immediate update or a successful recovery.
Safe Zone alerts. PetPace offers Safe Zone as a beta feature. You define an area in the app, and the system can notify you if your pet leaves it. An exit can automatically activate Find My Pet mode, temporarily pausing health-data collection while location tracking takes priority. Below 20% battery, Find My Pet does not activate automatically. Alerts and tracking depend on location accuracy and connectivity.
Veterinary guidance. PetPace advertises access to licensed veterinary professionals through chat or video as part of its membership. This service provides general educational guidance, not a medical diagnosis, prescription, or treatment plan. Availability and any additional fees should be confirmed with PetPace. It does not replace the veterinarian who knows your companion.
Share with your veterinarian. PetPace lets you share your companion's health records with a participating veterinary clinic. Your veterinarian can review patterns over time, helping you discuss changes that might otherwise be difficult to describe. The clinic must be enrolled in PetPace's veterinary platform, and sharing requires your permission.
Health programs. PetPace offers specialized monitoring programs for concerns including joint pain, diagnosed epilepsy, and pregnancy in dogs. Some programs are in beta testing or have eligibility requirements, and their availability and pricing may vary. These features provide additional information for veterinary discussions; they do not diagnose medical conditions.
Apple Watch. PetPace offers an Apple Watch app that lets owners view supported health information and notifications from their pet's collar. The watch is an additional way to check the record; it does not replace the PetPace collar, phone app, or required membership. Confirm compatibility with your Apple Watch before purchasing.
What It Doesn’t Do
It does not keep your pet inside a boundary. Safe Zone is a notification and location-tracking feature, not a physical or electronic containment system. If your pet leaves the area you defined, PetPace can send an alert and automatically activate Find My Pet mode, subject to battery level and connectivity. It cannot prevent an escape or guarantee that you will receive an alert in time.
It does not diagnose. PetPace’s terms say the vets “will not diagnose medical conditions, prescribe medications, or provide specific treatment recommendations.” No vet-patient relationship is created.
It is not for emergencies. PetPace ’s terms say the service “may not be relied upon for receiving alerts in case of emergencies.” Data is sent at set times, and PetPace says it cannot guarantee a transfer will work every time.
It does not replace a vet visit, an ID tag, or a registered microchip.
Size and Fit
PetPace’s product page lists:
Small / Cats: 8 to 22 pounds. Neck: 8 to 12 inches.
Medium: 22 to 62 pounds. Neck: 10.5 to 18 inches.
Large: over 62 pounds. Neck 16 to 24.5 inches.
The sensor unit weighs 60 grams (Small), 90 grams (Medium), and 100 grams (Large). That is about 2.1, 3.2, and 3.5 ounces. The unit measures 1.9 × 1.1 × 0.9 inches for Small, and 2.3 × 1.2 × 0.9 inches for Medium and Large. PetPace’s cat page does not list a neck size for cats.
Battery and Charging
PetPace’s support FAQ gives these estimates, by the mode you pick in the app:
Standard (sends data every 30 minutes): about 4 to 6 weeks.
Rapid (every 15 minutes): about 2 to 3 weeks.
Intensive (every 2 minutes): about 48 to 72 hours.
PetPace says normal use lasts around 3 weeks. Wi-Fi uses less power than cellular. Charging takes about 1.5 hours to reach 80% and about 2 hours for a full charge, using a magnetic connector. You get an alert beginning at 20%. You can’t replace the battery.
Where It Works
Wi-Fi: 2.4 GHz only. The collar can save up to 5 networks. Wi-Fi is easier on the battery.
Cellular: The collar has a built-in eSIM. PetPace says you do not need to subscribe to a carrier.
Bluetooth: PetPace lists Bluetooth 4.2 in its hardware specs. Its FAQ says the collar currently uses Wi-Fi or cellular and that Bluetooth is “coming soon.”
No signal: PetPace says the collar can hold up to 7 days of data and uploads it when it reconnects.
Service area: PetPace’s terms say the service is limited to the country where you live.
Phone and app compatibility. PetPace lists iOS 11 or later and Android 5.0 or later in its published technical specifications. These are the manufacturer's stated minimum requirements, not a guarantee that the current app will work on every older device. Before purchasing, check the latest compatibility requirements in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store for the phone you intend to use.
The Journey, and the First 12 Weeks
The Journey is PetPace’s personalized learning process, which takes approximately 12 weeks of qualifying wear. Basic monitoring begins immediately, while more advanced insights and scores become available as the collar builds a record of your pet’s usual patterns. Only days with at least 18 hours of wear count toward the Journey. Twelve calendar weeks do not necessarily mean the learning process is complete if your pet has missed qualifying days.
From day one: GPS and 24/7 vet chat are available right away.
Safe Zone and Find My Pet
PetPace’s Safe Zone page, updated August 11, 2026, says:
You turn it on in the app under Settings, then Beta programs, then Safe zone.
Exit notifications. PetPace says Safe Zone sends a notification when your pet leaves the defined area. However, notification delivery depends on the collar determining its location, maintaining connectivity, and communicating with the app. An alert may be delayed or fail to arrive. Safe Zone is an additional safety feature, not a guarantee that you will know immediately when your pet leaves.
The collar then switches to “Find My Pet” mode to track location. It pauses health data collection while this is on. It goes back to normal when your pet returns.
Below 20% battery, you still get the alert, but Find My Pet does not start by itself. You can start it in the app.
PetPace’s support-site FAQ gives a minimum radius of 90 feet (30 meters).
Health Programs
Pain Score (dogs). PetPace’s glossary describes it as a daily estimate of a dog's chance of joint pain, learned over an initial period. A higher score means the dog is more likely to be well, and a steadily low score may signal pain. PetPace says the score’s ability to monitor response to pain treatment “is not yet validated.”
Epilepsy (dogs, beta). PetPace’s epilepsy page describes early access to seizure detection with limited spots, a short questionnaire, and in-app seizure logging. The page carries a “Clinically Validated” badge. It says the data supports the vet team “without replacing clinical tests.”
Pregnancy (dogs). PetPace’s pregnancy page says the program needs about 20 days to learn a dog’s normal readings. It says alerts often come “from 10 days up to 12 hours before labor begins.” It is free for a limited time and uses your existing collar.
Cats. PetPace’s cat page does not list these three programs.
What It Costs
Collar: $299 on PetPace’s store page, shown on October 12, 2026. The list price shown is $399.
Subscription, paid up front: $300 for one year, $400 for two years, or $500 for three years. After that, $200 a year.
First purchase (before tax and shipping): $599 for the one-year plan, $699 for two years, or $799 for three years. Our arithmetic from PetPace’s prices.
Renewal: Plans renew automatically. PetPace’s terms say it is your job to cancel at least 7 business days before renewal.
Returns and Warranty
Returns. PetPace's FAQ describes a 30-day return period for collars purchased directly from PetPace, subject to its return conditions, and says an approved return cancels the membership. However, its Terms of Use state that subscription fees are non-refundable. Before purchasing, ask PetPace in writing whether returning the collar would also qualify you for a refund of your prepaid membership.
Warranty: One year from purchase, for defects in materials and workmanship. PetPace’s terms exclude batteries and other consumables, accidents, theft, abuse, negligence, misuse, vandalism, corrosion, and cosmetic damage. PetPace decides whether to repair or replace. You pay to ship the collar to PetPace.
What PetPace Does Not Publish
On the pages we could reach, PetPace does not say whether the temperature it reports is skin or core temperature. It does not give detection accuracy for Pain Score, Epilepsy, or Pregnancy. It does not give a GPS accuracy figure. The cat page gives no neck size range.
A Few Details Worth Confirming Before You Order
Choosing the right size. PetPace offers Small, Medium, and Large collars. Use the official PetPace sizing chart to compare your companion's weight and neck measurement. If your pet falls between sizes, contact PetPace to find the most comfortable and secure fit.
For cats. PetPace also offers a health-monitoring collar for cats. Measure your cat's neck carefully and confirm the appropriate fit before ordering. A comfortable collar makes consistent daily monitoring easier.
Specialized health programs. PetPace offers additional programs for dogs, including Epilepsy Monitoring and Pregnancy Monitoring. If one of these programs interests you, review its current availability, eligibility requirements, and pricing with PetPace before purchasing.
Before You Buy
Weigh your pet and measure the neck.
Check that your home has 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and cellular signal.
Plan for 18 hours of wear a day, and a charging habit.
Set up your family’s phones.
Ask your vet whether they use the PetPace vet platform.
Keep an ID tag and a registered microchip.
Read the renewal and cancellation terms before you pick a plan.
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