ALINUOYQ Automatic Dog Ball Launchers, 3–9 m

The ALINUOYQ automatic ball launcher is the number 10 entry in this guide, and it makes the smallest distance claim on the list: 9 m. The listing gives three settings of 3 m, 6 m and 9 m, and it is explicit that the top one depends on the adapter - "the new adapter allows for a maximum range of 9 meters". At £36.99 it sits above the two £34.99 launchers that promise up to 14 m and below the £59.99 one that promises 12 m, so on this listing the claimed range falls as the price rises.

It also carries the highest average rating in the guide, 4.7, on the fewest ratings, 15 - far fewer than the 465 ratings behind the 4.1 model elsewhere in the list. The breakdown shown is 82% five-star, 9% four-star and 9% three-star, with no one- or two-star ratings at all, though those percentages do not divide into whole numbers across the 15 ratings reported. The listing also contradicts itself in two further places: the bullet text says the three included balls are "designed specifically for large dogs" while the title and the breed field describe small and medium dogs, and the size field gives 27 x 25 x 21 cm while the item dimensions give 29.3 x 27.5 x 23.3 cm. Every figure on this page is taken from the Amazon listing for this product, not from any test we have run.