Detecting Issues Early
With Tractive Health Alerts

Detecting Issues Early With Tractive Health Alerts

How Tractive Health Alerts work

How Tractive Health Alerts work

Health Alerts are email notifications that let you know that your dog’s activity or sleep have shown unusual changes over a longer period. This is often a potential sign of a health problem. These alerts are especially useful in detecting issues early when your buddy is trying to hide their pain, or when their symptoms are almost invisible. That way, you can get them the care they need, and bring them back to happy and healthy as soon as possible.

Activating Health Alerts

Unlocking Health Alerts is easy. Just use your tracker day and night, for at least 12 hours – ideally even more. This helps us make sure we have enough reliable information to get a complete picture of your buddy’s usual activity levels, sleep patterns and daily routines.

The longer you keep the tracker on, the more accurate and helpful the alerts will be.

What the alerts are based on

Your Pet’s Behavior

We look into any significant changes in two key wellness factors – your dog’s active minutes and sleep interruptions.

Breed Comparisons

We also apply our insights based on data from millions of dogs, including those with a similar breed, age and size as yours.

Sleep + Activity Analysis

We use our AI-supported methodology to determine which changes are longer-lasting or significant enough to merit a health alert.

Activating Health Alerts

Unlocking Health Alerts is easy. Just use your tracker day and night, for at least 12 hours – ideally even more. This helps us make sure we have enough reliable information to get a complete picture of your buddy’s usual activity levels, sleep patterns and daily routines.

The longer you keep the tracker on, the more accurate and helpful the alerts will be.

What the alerts are based on

Your Pet’s Behavior

We look into any significant changes in two key wellness factors – your dog’s active minutes and sleep interruptions.

Breed Comparisons

We also apply our insights based on data from millions of dogs, including those with a similar breed, age and size as yours.

Sleep + Activity Analysis

We use our AI-supported methodology to determine which changes are longer-lasting or significant enough to merit a health alert.

Types of Health Alerts

Types of Health Alerts

Activity Alerts

You will get these if your dog has been a lot less active in the last 6 weeks. This tends to be a solid indicator that something is bothering your dog.

It might help alert you to an issue early, especially if you also start noticing symptoms like peeing more, drinking less, having no appetite, or walking oddly. In any case, it’s a good idea to talk to your vet.

Activity Alerts

You will get these if your dog has been a lot less active in the last 6 weeks.

This tends to be a solid indicator that something is bothering your dog. It might help alert you to an issue early, especially if you also start noticing symptoms like peeing more, drinking less, having no appetite, or walking oddly.

In any case, it’s a good idea to talk to your vet.

Common reasons for less activity

Arthritis & Joint Issues

Inflamed joints cause pain and limit movement. A leading cause is osteoarthritis, common in older and bigger dogs.

Lifestyle Changes

Your own routine can have a big impact on your dog’s activity. For example, if you’ve been too busy to go on walks recently.

Nagging Injuries

Some injuries, like a light sprain or a hurt paw pad, can be hard to spot – especially if your dog tries to hide their pain.

Common reasons for less activity

Arthritis & Joint Issues

Inflamed joints cause pain and limit movement. A leading cause is osteoarthritis, common in older and bigger dogs.

Lifestyle Changes

Your own routine can have a big impact on your dog’s activity. For example, if you’ve been too busy to go on walks recently.

Nagging Injuries

Some injuries, like a light sprain or a hurt paw pad, can be hard to spot – especially if your dog tries to hide their pain.

Sleep Alerts

You will get these if your dog has been waking up a lot more than usual at night in the last 6 weeks.

Sleep interruptions are a sign of lower sleep quality, and can alert you to health problems in advance – especially in case you don’t notice anything during the day.

Causes vary, from joint pains to bladder issues to bad dreams, but it’s always good to talk to your vet.

Sleep Alerts

You will get these if your dog has been waking up a lot more at night than usual in the last 6 weeks.

Sleep interruptions are a sign of lower sleep quality, and can alert you to health problems in advance – especially in case you don’t notice anything during the day.

Causes vary, from joint pains to bladder issues to bad dreams, but it’s always good to talk to your vet.

Common reasons for more disturbed sleep

Joint Issues & Sickness

Dogs are good at hiding pain, but waking up at night can be a giveaway. Or, they might be getting up to pee more, which can be tied to bladder or kidney issues.

Changes Where They Sleep

Home moves, season changes, loud noises at night can all disrupt your buddy’s night sleep. You can try to see if there’s a pattern that helps you find the cause.

Sleep Disorders

Difficulty breathing at night, also known as sleep apnea, can keep dogs up. And younger dogs might get active during their sleep due to REM Sleep Disorder.

Common reasons for more disturbed sleep

Joint Issues & Sickness

Dogs are good at hiding pain, but waking up at night can be a giveaway. Or, they might be getting up to pee more, which can be tied to bladder or kidney issues.

Changes Where They Sleep

Home moves, season changes, loud noises at night can all disrupt your buddy’s night sleep. You can try to see if there’s a pattern that helps you find the cause.

Sleep Disorders

Difficulty breathing at night, also known as sleep apnea, can keep dogs up. And younger dogs might get active during their sleep due to REM Sleep Disorder.

Got questions about Health Alerts?

Without enough data, we won’t be able to create a clear picture of what counts as normal activity and sleep for your buddy. To make sure you get accurate, useful alerts, we recommend using the tracker regularly, also during the night.

We rely on the following: Active minutes to see if your dog has been moving less than usual, and sleep interruptions to see if there’s an issue disrupting their rest at night.

We check your buddy’s usual activity and sleep, as well as using insights based on data from millions of dogs. If there have been significant changes that last longer, you will likely get an alert.

If you don’t know what could be causing the changes, it doesn’t hurt to talk to your vet, especially if you start noticing other symptoms. You know your dog best, so just see Health Alerts as an early warning system to help you detect hard-to-see signs.