PACK VILLE

One Explorer Collar in the size and colour you pick, and one Explorer Adjustable Leash in the colour you pick. The kit costs less than the two apart, except with the Pink collar, which is listed at the two parts' full price today. 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 tag ring is sold separately.

No, and no collar-and-lead set is. A flat collar cannot redirect a pull; it can only take the force on the throat, and years of that is a sore throat, a cough and, in small breeds, a windpipe that starts to collapse. A dog that pulls walks on the Explorer Harness with the lead on the front D-ring, and the Training Bundle is that harness with this same lead. This kit is for the dog that already walks calmly on a collar; on a puller the collar still earns its place as the thing that carries the tag and the reflective stitching, with the lead on the harness.

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). The ranges overlap on purpose; between sizes, go up. A puppy gets re-measured every two weeks and usually moves up a size in the first year. 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, so read the leash row, not the picture, for what ships.

The slider sets the lead to one of three lengths, and the change takes a few seconds on the walk. Short is for crossings, lifts and stairwells, the cafe strip, narrow footpaths and passing another dog, with the padded handle as your traffic handle. Middle is the footpath length. Long is for the park and the verge, where a walk with the nose down does more for a dog's head than the same distance at heel. It is not a long line: recall practice at 5 or 10 m needs one, on a harness.

Hands-free, yes: open the buckle in the padded handle, pass the loop round your waist, close it at the hips, and the small ring beside the handle takes the Explorer Dual Pocket Pouch so the bags come too. It is for a dog that already walks well and that you could stop by hand if it did not, never beside traffic, and never with a dog strong enough to pull you over. Tethering at a cafe: only while you are sitting right beside them, and clipped to a harness rather than the collar. Never walk away from a tethered dog, even for a minute; a tethered dog on a collar that panics or gets rushed by another dog is an emergency I have treated.

It is built for them. The 3M reflective stitching runs the length of the collar and reflective stitching runs down both edges of the lead, so headlights come back off both pieces at a crossing. Reflective is not a light, though: on an unlit path add a clip-on light, and keep the lead at the short setting where you cannot see what is ahead. And put a Smart ID Tag on the tag ring before the first night walk, because the dog that bolts at a firework or a backfiring bus is the dog that needs to be scanned by whoever finds it.

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. A lead that a dog has chewed through is not a fault; the lead comes off the hook when the walk ends.