The ball always comes back
She drops it in the top herself. It flies across the room. She brings it back and does the whole thing again — long after your arm has given up and the sofa has won.
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“I got it for the dog and it turned out to be for me. I read a whole chapter last night while she ran herself happy three feet away.”Danielle K. · Asheville, NC · mom to Juno, a 7-month Aussie
Three steps, and then it just keeps going
It isn’t a machine you operate. It’s a loop she learns in an afternoon and then runs on her own.
Works with any standard 2 in tennis ball · three come in the box.
Will it work in your place?
One dial, three distances. Tap where she plays and watch how far the ball actually goes.
A hallway or a living roomTen feet is a soft indoor lob — it clears the rug and lands before the far wall. This is the setting people leave it on all winter.
What actually changes at home
Not a gadget that lives in a cupboard. A thing that sits by the sofa and quietly gives you your evenings back.
Your evening back
She gets the running she needs while you stay on the sofa with both hands free. Nobody has to lose.
A tired dog by bedtime
Twenty minutes of real sprinting does what an hour of walking on a lead never quite manages.
Something that’s hers
She decides when to play, and she can play alone. For dogs that get restless while you work, that matters.
Nothing to set up
Out of the box, plug it in, drop a ball in the top. No app, no pairing, no account, no subscription.
Four things we got right
The details that decide whether it becomes part of the house or ends up in the loft by February.
It won’t fill the room with noise
A soft mechanical thump, and then nothing. No whine between throws, no fan, no chirping. You can leave it running while the house is asleep and it stays a background sound.
The pace of a gentle throw
The ball leaves at the speed you would lob it underarm across the room — enough for a proper chase, never hard enough to sting a nose or knock a lamp off a table.
Wide enough for a puppy to aim at
The funnel is deliberately generous, so a ball dropped anywhere near it rolls in on its own. That single detail is the difference between a dog who learns it and a dog who gives up.
They sort out the turns themselves
One loads, one chases, and within a week they have a system you had nothing to do with. It holds three balls at a time, so nobody stands around waiting.
The part we thought hardest about
You are going to leave the room while it is running. So it had to be safe when nobody is watching — not just while you are stood over it.
Fifteen minutes with no ball loaded and it powers down on its own. If she wanders off mid-game, it does not sit there running all afternoon.
The moving parts sit deep inside the shell, well past where a nose or a paw can reach. The launch pauses for a beat after loading, so she is clear before the ball leaves.
It is weighted at the bottom and sits on a rubber ring. An excited spaniel can shoulder into it without tipping it over or sliding it across the floor.
There is no hidden higher setting. Thirty feet is the ceiling by design — long enough for a garden, short enough that a ball indoors never becomes something you regret.
Something you don’t mind seeing
It is going to live in your living room, not the garage. So it was made to sit beside a sofa without shouting about it.
PupFetch™ Automatic Ball Launcher
Give her a whole season with it.
Some dogs take to it in ten minutes. Some need a week of you dropping the ball in for them. And a few never care about a ball at all — that is just how dogs are, and we would rather you found out on our money than yours.
Sixty days, from the day it arrives. If it isn’t part of your evenings by then, one email and we refund you in full. You don’t need the box, you don’t need a reason, and you don’t need to send anything back.
She needed twenty more minutes. I had none left.
Juno is an Aussie. Aussies do not accept that the day is over just because you have decided it is.
Ten at night, house quiet, everyone else in bed — and there she is with the ball, dropping it on my foot, picking it up, dropping it again. I’d throw it down the hall until my shoulder ached and she’d come back looking like we were just getting started. I used to feel genuinely guilty about it. She wasn’t being difficult. She just had more left than I did.
The first evening she worked out the funnel, I nearly cried. That sounds ridiculous. I know.
It took her three tries. Drop, wait, chase, bring it back, drop again. And then she just… kept going, on her own, while I sat on the sofa with a cup of tea and watched. Fourteen minutes, I counted. Then she came and lay down on my feet and went to sleep, properly, the way she does after a long walk.
It has been out in the living room since. She uses it when she wants, which is usually the exact hour I have nothing left to give. It didn’t make me a better owner — it just made it possible to be one at ten at night.
60 days to change your mind · nothing to send back
The things people ask us first
Most dogs get it inside one evening, and almost all of them within a week. The teaching part is simple: you drop the ball in the funnel yourself while she watches, four or five times, so she connects the funnel with the throw. After that she will start nosing it in herself. Puppies tend to pick it up faster than older dogs, and a dog who already brings a ball back to your hand is usually loading it within minutes.
Use the 10 ft setting indoors — that is what it is there for. Thirty feet is a garden distance. The ball never leaves fast enough to be dangerous at any setting, but at 30 ft indoors it will simply reach the far wall, which gets dull for her and eventually knocks something over. One dial on the back, three positions, takes a second to change.
Size barely matters here, because she never has to lift or carry the machine — only a ball. It suits anything from a beagle up to a labrador comfortably. The one real limit is the ball: it takes standard 2 in tennis balls, so a very small mouth — a chihuahua, a toy poodle — may struggle to carry one back. If your dog already plays with a normal tennis ball, she will be fine with this.
Then this is not the thing for her, and we would rather say so plainly. Some dogs simply have no interest in chasing, and no machine changes that. It is exactly why the guarantee runs a full sixty days rather than the usual fortnight — long enough to know for certain, and if the answer is no, one email gets you refunded and you keep the launcher.
There is a soft mechanical thump when it throws, and silence in between — no motor whine while it waits, no fan, no beeping. People run it in flats and in the evening without complaints. The loudest thing in the room will be her paws on the floor.
Yes — use the 20 or 30 ft setting and the six AA batteries so you are not running a cable across the grass. Keep it on a flat, reasonably dry patch. It handles dew and damp fur, but it is not a sealed outdoor unit, so bring it in overnight and out of the rain.
Here is the timeline for an order placed today. Shipping is free with no minimum, and a tracking link reaches you by email as soon as the label is scanned.
Send us a short video of what it is doing and we sort it out — a replacement or a refund, whichever you would rather have. No return shipping to arrange in either case. Balls wear out with use, which is normal; any standard 2 in tennis ball fits, so you are never tied to buying ours.
What people tell us afterwards
Collected from customers who have had one for at least a month.
Bought it for my border collie, who is smarter than me and gets bored by three in the afternoon. She had it figured out before I finished reading the leaflet. The house is noticeably calmer.
Honest note for anyone with an older dog: my ten-year-old took about five days, not five minutes. Worth the patience. He now brings the ball to the machine instead of to me, which I have mixed feelings about.
We got two, one for each floor, which sounded excessive until we had them. Our beagle puppy is finally sleeping through the night. That alone was worth it.
I work from home and the four o’clock restlessness was killing my afternoons. Now she takes herself off and plays for twenty minutes. I get my calls back.
The Stone one genuinely looks fine next to the sofa, which I did not expect from a dog gadget. My husband did not ask me to put it away, which is the highest praise available in this house.
Bought it as a Christmas present for my sister’s lab puppy and ended up ordering a second one for us on Boxing Day. Make of that what you will.