Mark: We use our
P4P+ for filming herds of wild animals.
First, I would question why you need a drone to look for a horse or dog? Won’t the dog, for example, come when called?
Anyway, locating animals from above is easier said than done. The
P4P+ is obviously too expensive from what you say. Yet the camera quality is excellent and the integrated screen is much brighter and sharper than a cell/mobile phone normally used as a drone screen. Despite this added high quality, it’s not easy locating a bunch of large animals - and we’re professionals. Movement is the biggest help in finding the beasts, but animals can easily just stand still - and this would especially happen with domesticated animals which are used to human activities. The very wide camera angle doesn’t help because you’re looking at a wide area. “Needle in a haystack” might well be used in summary.
If you want to move forward, I would suggest first doing a trial. Has a friend or near neighbour got a drone? If not, place an advert locally for someone to come and fly over your property.
Again, please don’t underestimate how difficult it is to locate animals from above on a small screen - even when you do have a high quality image and bright/sharp screen. I’m assuming they’re not just on low grass and flat terrain, as might be the case with cows or sheep on a farm/ranch, because simple eyesight would be sufficient. In our case, we rarely have to worry about trees (other than along river banks) - but wild knee-high vegetation on undulating ground nevertheless makes spotting a dozen or so large animals (horse-size) far from easy.