My dogs

Here you'll learn how to add your hunting dogs to Jaktli, connect the dog's GPS collar so the dog appears on the map during hunts, and keep history for retired or deceased dogs.

What is My dogs?

My dogs is your personal register of the dogs you hunt with and their trackers. You'll find the My Dogs tile on the home screen. The same page also opens from the My Dogs row under Profile, so you can reach your dogs even before you have joined a team.

Personal information

Only you see your dogs and trackers. The content is not shared with the team. If you move between teams, they stay attached to your account.

Add a dog

1. Open My Dogs from the home screen
2. Tap Add dog
3. Fill in the fields:
   • Name (required)
   • Breed (free text with suggestions as you type)
   • Sex (Male or Female)
   • Born (date in YYYY-MM-DD format)
   • Color
   • Roles (one or more, see list below)
   • SKK reg-no if the dog is registered, for example S12345/2021
   • Status (Active, Retired, Deceased, or Other)
   • Notes
4. You can also add a photo at the top of the form
5. Tap Save

The SKK number is optional

Leave SKK reg-no blank if the dog is not registered. If you fill it in, the format must be letter, digits, slash, year, for example S12345/2021.

Roles

You can mark several roles per dog. Pick the ones that match your dog:

• Bay (stallande): bays at game and barks until the hunter arrives
• Driving: drives game toward standers
• Flushing: flushes game close to the hunter
• Tracking: tracks wounded or shot game
• Retrieving: retrieves downed game
• Bird dog
• Earth dog
• Guard dog
• Other

Status

The status is shown as a label on the dog card and controls how the dog appears in the list.

• Active: the dog is currently in service
• Retired: no longer hunted with, but kept in the list
• Deceased: the dog is gone, but the history is preserved
• Other: for example a dog that is on loan or recently taken over

Dogs with a status other than Active appear with a dimmed photo and a label.

Edit and delete

On a dog's detail screen:

• Edit opens the form again so you can change fields or switch the photo
• Delete opens a confirmation. After you confirm, the dog is removed from your register permanently

You can also press and hold a dog in the list to open a menu with View, Edit, and Delete.

Deletion cannot be undone

A deleted dog cannot be restored. Set the status to Retired or Deceased instead if you want to keep the history.

Dog trackers

Further down the same page you'll find your trackers. A tracker is the GPS collar the dog wears during the hunt. Once the tracker is added, the dog automatically appears on the team's map whenever a hunt is running.

Beta

Dog tracking is new and tested with the Garmin Alpha. Other Garmin dog-tracking handhelds should work too, but we have not been able to try every model yet.

A tracker can be a Garmin collar or a spare phone on the dog running the Jaktli OpenTrack app (coming soon). A Garmin collar also requires a Garmin handheld and a Garmin watch running the Jaktli watch app. To see which trackers work with Jaktli, set up a Garmin collar step by step, or find out which other brands we are working to support, read Dog trackers. Once a tracker is added, the dog appears on the map by itself during a hunt and you control sharing per collar. Read more under Live hunt.

The dog map

At the top of the My Dogs page you'll find the button View dogs on map. It opens a map of its own that only shows your dogs, whether a hunt is running or not. As long as a tracker is sending positions, you see the dog here.

• The page shows how many of your dogs are live right now
• You can switch map style, and the choice is kept for next time. The terrain map is the default
• The buttons on the map fit all dogs in view or centre on your own position

Distance and direction

At the bottom of the map there is a small box for each dog. The box stays there all the time, so you do not have to tap the dog on the map to see it.

• The box shows the dog's name and how far away it is
• The arrow points the way to walk when you hold the phone in front of you
• At the bottom it says what the dog is doing, for example On point or Moving, and how long ago the last position arrived
• Top right shows the tracker's battery. The number turns amber below 20 per cent and red below 10 per cent, the same levels at which the tracker itself starts saving power and sends positions less often
• The colour of the box is the same as the dog's dot on the map
• Tap a box to move the map to that dog

Not every tracker reports what the dog is doing, or how much battery it has. If it says Unknown, or the battery figure is missing, that only means the tracker does not send that information, not that something is wrong. A Garmin collar relayed through the watch, for example, sends no battery level, while a phone running OpenTrack does.

The boxes need to know where you are. Until the phone has found your position it says Waiting for your position. If the compass is not reliable, a compass point such as NE is shown instead of the arrow. A dog that has stopped sending fades and reads Stale, but its last known distance and time stay.

The dog map is personal, just like the rest of My Dogs. The team's shared map during a hunt is not affected.

Handling of personal data

Information about your dogs is stored in Jaktli's database and linked to your account. Only you can see it. The data is deleted when you remove the dog yourself or delete your account. See the Privacy policy for your full rights.

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See also: Live hunt, Profile and Settings, Calendar