Strava's new integration with the Fi Smart Dog Collar

@Kirstie Gorgeous!  What breed/mix?  

He's a little podenco x Brittany, he was found on the streets in Spain with his mum and litter mates at 10 days old. I've had him since he was six months and he has been the most amazing trail buddy. He recently moved to Australia with me so he is a very well traveled boy. We have had some amazing adventures together all over the UK and now in Australia. He's one in a million, my Doug! 

I connected the Fi app from my dogs collar to Strava, took the dog on a walk, and nothing.   Does a separate dog account need to be created before connecting the app?  If I am already logged in on the app for myself, how does it post for the dog?   I watched the 30 second video on the fi collar website, but details are lacking from both sites as far as I can find.

For recording, please ensure that the Fi app is open and running in the background. Then once you leave your home base it detects that you are now on a walk and will record until you return home. Then it will automatically end the walk and sync to Strava. If you continue to have issues please feel free to write in to our customer support team and they can troubleshoot what might be going on,

You are killing Strava with this tosh.  Athletes don't want to see MORE dog walks.  Either change your name to Facebook or give the athletes the old Strava back.  I remember a time when people on Strava only posted interesting bike rides and runs.  Now my feed is full of yoga, walks to the shops, stretching, etc...   You are in danger of losing all the people for whom you invented Strava for!

Sad to say .. I kind of agree with @Aerialdan with respect to the dog-walks on Strava.  I don't hink my cycling buddies want to see it in the feed any more than I do.  My daughters however do want to see my dog's feed (and not mine). Perhaps post to my dog's own account? But ... and clearly I'm doing something wrong ... ran both Strava and Fi and here is the comparison.  Is this the best Fi (on the right) can do with the same tracking? Pretty lame.

I’m curious whether Strava support is interested in adding a feed filtering to permit users to selectively hide Fi collar activities. I don’t want to see them and they clutter my feed for the reason ​@BillA says.

​@belle_flower I no longer have the Fi connected to the account … too innacurate. And for the Strava posts themselves (Dog Walk Activity) recorded on Apple Watch what I have been doing is “checking” the box for “Mute Activity” at the bottom of the edit page. There might be a way for them to auto load with that activated … I haven’t researched. I keep thinking about getting an Apple or Garmin watch to take to my dogs collar.  But that is “all talk and no action.”

Hi ​@belle_flower, there's a feature request addressing this that you might want to vote for: