Automatic Ball Launcher for Dogs Who Bring It Back

An automatic ball launcher for dogs that fetch. A ball goes into the opening in the top, the machine throws it out of the port in the side, and your dog runs it down and brings it back. The throwing is the machine's job rather than yours.

What it does

• Throws the ball. The ball leaves the side port under power for your dog to chase, rather than rolling out.
• Reloads through the top. Balls go back in by hand through the opening in the top. There is no ball return, so this is a toy to play alongside your dog rather than one to leave running while you are out.
• Plugs in. A power adapter is on the supplier's packing list, so allow for a power point within reach of wherever you stand it.

Using it

Stand the launcher on a flat surface with clear space in front of the side port, and keep people and other pets out of the line of the throw. Connect the supplied adapter, load a ball into the top, and stay with your dog while the machine is running. Turn it off and put it away out of reach when the game is over.

Power, and why there is only one option

The supplier lists this machine in several plug types. We stock only the one it names Au plug, which is the fitting used in Australia and New Zealand, and we have removed the others from this listing rather than leave you to pick a plug that does not fit your wall.

Being straight about the limit of that: the supplier's record gives us the option name and nothing else, with no voltage, socket standard or adapter rating anywhere in it. So we can tell you which option we chose and why, and we cannot give you an electrical specification. If your setup needs one, ask us before you order and we will put the question to the supplier.

Ball size, worth checking first

Read this before you order if you were planning to use balls you already own. The supplier's record calls this a tennis ball launcher, and the balls photographed with the machine are small ones. Nothing in the record states what size ball the opening actually takes, so we will not tell you a full-size tennis ball fits. Ask us first if that is what you had in mind.

In the box

The supplier's packing list is one launcher, three mini tennis balls, one power adapter and one printed manual, bagged inside the carton. The furniture and props in the photographs are not part of the listing.

Delivery

Free to Australia and New Zealand, with no minimum order. Orders are dispatched in 3-5 business days and arrive within 10-21 days of ordering. Nothing is payable at the door on an ordinary order: Australia and New Zealand collect duty or GST at the border only on consignments valued over A$1,000 and NZ$1,000, and this machine is priced well below that on its own. A large multi-unit order could reach the threshold.