SCHWIMMER-PAKET

One Sealskin Collar in the size and colour you pick, and one Sealskin Leash in the colour you pick. The kit is one price in every size and colour, less than the two apart. The price struck through on this page is the two parts at today's prices; I checked both pages before writing this. The Smart ID Tag for the collar's D-ring is sold separately.

Yes to both, on both pieces, for the reason that matters: there is no fabric in either. Coated webbing does not absorb water, so there is nothing for sea water, dam water or mud to soak into and nothing for bacteria to live in, which is where the smell of an old nylon collar and lead comes from. Rinse them or wipe them and they are dry and clean in a minute. What the set cannot do is dry the dog: towel the neck after a long swim, because the skin under any collar is where a hot spot starts.

Measure the neck with a soft tape where the collar sits, snug but not tight. Small is 27 to 37 cm (about 4 to 10 kg: cavaliers, dachshunds, cavoodles), Medium 32 to 47 cm (about 10 to 25 kg: kelpies, collies, staffies), Large 41 to 64 cm (25 kg and up: goldens, Labradors, shepherds). Between sizes, go up: coated webbing has no give, so a collar at the end of its adjustment has no room for a winter coat or a growing puppy, and a puppy gets re-measured every two weeks. Under about 5 kg, the lead's aluminium clip is heavy hanging off a small collar: clip it to a harness, or buy the Small collar alone and pair it with a lighter lead.

Yes. The collar colour and the leash colour are two separate rows, so a Blue collar with a Yellow lead is as easy as a matching pair; the photos follow the collar colour and show the lead to match, so read the leash row, not the picture, for what ships. Glow is available on both pieces: cream by day, it charges under daylight or a lamp and glows green in the dark for a while afterwards, brightest in the first hour, so you can see the dog and the line between you on the walk home. It is a glow, not a reflector: it does not throw headlights back, and the other eight colours have no reflective element, so for road walks after dark add a clip-on light.

No. Nothing you clip to a dog stops it pulling; a front-clip harness redirects the pull and training removes it. A flat collar can only take the force on the throat, and this lead has no stretch, so a dog that hits the end of it at a run takes the jolt through whatever it is clipped to. A dog that pulls toward the water walks on the Sealskin Harness with this lead clipped to it, and the collar still earns its place as the thing that carries the tag into the water. On a calm walker the lead clips to the collar's D-ring.

That is what it is for. The webbing, the D-ring and the aluminium clip shrug off salt and fresh water. Two beach habits: rinse the buckle and the clip sleeve under the tap so sand does not sit in them, and let the clip dry open. The quick-release buckle is there because a collar can catch on a submerged branch, and a dog that swims with a tag on should have a tag that copes with water, which the Smart ID Tag does. And offer fresh water on the sand: a dog that gulps sea water while fetching can vomit, get diarrhoea and, in quantity, become dangerously salt-loaded.

Same three collar sizes, same idea, different weather. If your dog swims, wades, rolls or gets rained on most weeks, or your current collar and lead smell, this one: nothing soaks in and both pieces wipe clean. If your dog stays mostly dry and walks a lot on footpaths and in the dark, the City Bundle: the Explorer Collar has 3M reflective stitching and a separate tag ring, and the Explorer Adjustable Leash has three lengths and a waist buckle. Plenty of homes own the Sealskin set for the beach and the Explorer set for the week.

Email hello@woopf.com as soon as you notice, with a photo, your order number and which piece it is, and it is covered. Wrong collar size and it is unworn in its packaging: email within 14 days and we will look at a swap.