I need a GPS collar or some sort of cat locator...?

They don't make them small enough, or light enough for pets yet. The ones I've seen on the commercial market (and no, you can't get spy stuff, and movies make things up all the time) are bulky and too big for a cat to wear. The fee to keep the account open and able to locate the animal is high too.

The ones on the market are coverd by a consumer protection article here --

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2012/0...

You need a cell phone app, and you pay a service fee. The average cost of the collar alone is $200 on most. The cheaper one does not locate an animal in an area smaller than 4 acres which is a 3 block area. These devices are meant for putting on hunting hounds, to locate them in the field, not for cats really. Battery live is very short and has to be recharged regularly so if the pet has the collar on too long, the batteries give out and it's useless. That's the problem with trying to make things very small.

Cats with collars get them caught on chain link fencing - I have seen two cats hung on a fence trying to get over it who got their collars caught and could not squirm out, and found one empty collar twisted around the wires on the bottom of our chain link fence in back one fall.

As for keeping a cat indoors 'where it belongs', I do TNR. The ferals (who are more street wise than indoor cats) live an average of 1 1/2 years before being killed on the road or by dogs. Loose dogs on the street, or dogs in the dog's back yard, they both kill cats and they're usually very good at doing that. It's the known danger for them in the cities. There's also city coyotes now (cats are easy meals for them), FIV, FeLV, poisoning by drinking antifreeze under cars, and being trapped in garages to die of starvation. Along with humans who 'catch' friendly ones and torture or kill them, or sell them to people with pit bulls as fight fodder. You're very naive if you think it's a safe world for a cat.

Outdoor cats over the years living in the wild did not live 20 years, they lived maybe 5 away from humans outside the cities. It's never been a safe world for an animal the size of a cat to live it's full lifespan in the wild. Far too many other predators who eat rabbit sized prey look at cats as prey.

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I need a GPS collar or some sort of cat locator...?

I need a GPS collar, or something similar to be able to locate and track down my cat for at least a 1 mile radius (1-2 Km)

Ideal will be something like you see in movies, with a transmitter and a receiver with a map screen.

If it had a live camera, it would be even nicer, just to be able to see...

I know this is super late, but they do have cat tracker collars.

They don't show you where your cat is on a map with a screen or anything like that, but they are a small and just a little bit bigger than a medallion and fit on their collar. You hold a receiver and it beeps as you get closer and closer to your cat.

http://www.thecatlocator.com/about_locator.htm

Why not just keep your cat inside.

And don't say that is cruel, because it is cruel making them live or stay outside.

Cats live longer and have less disease when kept inside.