Franklin Pet Supply Ready Set Fetch Automatic Tennis Ball Launcher Dog Toy - Authentic Tennis Ball Thrower - Launchesup to 40' - Interactive Pet Toy

Our pup is obsessed with this!! We play it twice a day for about 20 minutes at time or we go outside to play. Chasing and retrieving is life for our doodle. I found that when using tennis balls they get wet and don’t go as far so we have about 40 tennis balls and use each ball twice before moving on to the next one. The other thing is that many have stated it quit working after a bit. That happened to us. After two a day play time for two weeks ours started to get loud and slow down, to the point that the balls shooting out would bounce out about 2-3 feet away. Then it just stopped working. So I was going to throw it away and buy a new one. Like I said our dogs obsessed. Once I saw again how much I paid for it, I was not about to do that. So my son in law took it apart and found the two motors had collected all this dark hard melted plastic (tennis ball fuzz) and some un-melted tennis ball fluff that had been collected from all the tennis balls. Which explained the EXTRA long fuzz on the actual tennis balls as well. Had to use pliers and tweezers to get it out, wiped it clean, put it back together and it works like new. We are now using smooth plastic, rubber or foam like tennis balls and let me tell you no issues but they fly even further and we just need to wipe them down with a towel after each use or they don’t go far.

They are straight up lying in the product description. I now see other people saying the same thing. 40’ distance!? It MAYBE pathetically lobs the ball 10-15’. I don’t mind the sound so much but it is loud. For how loud it is you’d think it was going to shoot the ball 80’. I’ve made a lot of purchases on Amazon and this one is my #1 most disappointing purchase. I would give it 0 stars if I could.

I’ve purchased pretty much every single ball launcher available and they all have the same exact problem, it’s like not a single one of these manufacturers has ever tested this with a dog. The tennis ball after just a an hour becomes fuzzy and wet and makes it harder to launch. You lose range, the inside of the machine gets all the fuzziness stuck in all parts, and the ball gets ruined in a day. Replace the tennis ball with a rubber 2.5 inch rubber ball. Now this has a small problem too, because it also gets slippery and wet, so I took a rag, cut a hole in it, and attached it to the tray. This way when your dogs throws the ball in there, it dries it down just a tad. This ball launcher is a bit better than the other ones in the way it uses plastic “gears” to launch the ball as opposed to weaker systems. Hopefully the company fixes this, as these are small tweaks. Rubber ball, and some felt pad/or air system to dry the ball off. As we know, our pups don’t exactly dry their own balls :)

It's very noisy, which scares the dog away.

The machine itself works just as it should! It is easy to use - you or the pup are simply supposed to put the ball in the top "hopper" & it shoots it out. It has "legs" underneath so you can adjust the pitch of the throw. It is louder but not obnoxious, totally tolerable! My 1 year old dog is OBSESSSED with playing ball so we bought this hoping he would learn to play ball with himself after we are done for the day (because he is NEVER done!). Sadly, he doesn't feel he should be the one to put the ball back into the hopper for a new pitch & feels he is above that & that his humans should serve him. Good product for normal dogs, not ones like my entitled boy lol.

This is a great product. I love how if the dog is trained. It can drop the balls itself unfortunately, my pup had an issue with the Sound of the motor(it is not loud at all) but my girl is reactive in some noises she can’t handle so I did return it. I wish we could’ve kept it. Some might say a little pricey. In my opinion it’s not unreasonable. It’s a great product. Very easy to set up.

Initially she wasn't a fan the noise and the release were new. It took about 4 weeks of working with her and the launcher to build her comfort level with it and now she does it all by herself every time. It does launch farthest with the orange knobby balls. I think mechanism inside catches the knows better and the orange knobby ball is lighter so it goes farther. Occasionally the knobby ball will get stuck in the machine but I just tap the ball and it releases. I do try to wipe it down after she uses it because the drool and debris can build up. Overall if you are thinking about purchasing a ball launcher I would highly recommend this one. We have had it for 6 months now and use it 3-4 times a week. ****UPDATE 4 star to 2**** In August 2023 the adapter plug (female end) pushed through the plastic of the machine. We repaired it and then it stopped working all together. It is an expensive toy to last just over a year.

Still trying to train my pup to put the ball in the bucket. He is having fun with the ones we put in. Seems durable so far. Good for both Indoor and outdoor use. Noise doesn’t seem to bother my pup, so it’s not too loud for indoor use.

East we found was the humming puts our dog off from actually approaching the launcher, but if your dog isn't wound up by hoovers, you should be ok. Bear in mind, the condition of the ball will determine the distance and angle of the ball, as you can see on the video. Whereas the weight of the ball will determine the distance, outside of the launch speed and angle of the unit. Although not the distance launcher I was hoping for, it does get to the bottom of my small yard which is around 14meters from launcher to wall. Another point was that my unit came with an American plug, not a problem for me, but it is something buyer's should be mindful of. Lastly, the hopper is quite big, but not convinced it is for stacking more than one ball, as more than one has the potential to get stuck, this could be solved had the tray design incorporated a sorting aspect. That said, we have had a total of 14 balls in the hopper comfortably. When multiple balls are in the hopper, there is a potential for the launcher to launch more than one ball. We found this was down to weight and size of the ball. Lastly, the 'beep' that sounds before the ball is launched is not loud enough when the launcher is on its highest setting, as the sound of the motor drowns it out. It stops working altogether if you are feeding snobbery balls back into the launcher. A good indication of snobbery balls, is when the launch angle/distance drops.

I've seen a lot of ball throwing machines that were quite a bit cheaper and the reviews weren't good. Most reviews were it stopped working when the balls got wet and they were more hassle than they were worth. I have two 100+ pound dogs who can get more spit on a ball than you could believe so I had to go with the expensive one. It is made in America which to me means quality. I live in Canada and there was an import fee of almost $28 on top of what I paid. My fingers were crossed it was going to be worth it. Well, my dogs just love it. Spitty balls keep flying out the end and if we didn't turn it off they would chase the balls forever. It's easily adjustable up and down for the launch angle and easy to set for distance. I thought the sound was kind of low, but the dogs can obviously hear it because they know when it's about to launch. Well worth the cost for a solid product. I would definitely recommend it.

Well made

Very good standard tennis ball machine. Unfortunately the plug was a two pin so it wasn’t suitable for use here. It looked very good from the video on the description page and will be great fun for dogs. However we couldn’t use it and it was returned.

On the positive side, although this comes with a US power supply, a US-to-UK adapter was included - the power supply is rated 110-240V input, so that's fine. The two balls that are supplied are quite light, but even so the launcher struggles to throw them more than 20 feet, certainly not the 40 feet advertised, even on full speed and the with the foot double-extended. If you push the balls in with some force they do go further, but the whole point is that the dogs can use it themselves (supervised, of course). With the foot extended the back of the hopper is almost horizontal making it harder for balls dropped in to fall into the launcher itself. Whether or not this turns out to be a worthwhile purchase depends on the dogs (a young Border Collie and scaredy-cat Rottie) get used to the noise. It's not overly loud, just a heavily greared-down motor running all the time, not just when the ball is dropped in.