A five-year guarantee on a pet product is unusual enough to be the reason to look at this one at all. Red Dingo put that behind everything in the Durables range, which tells you more about the way it is put together than any amount of description would: a brand expecting to replace things does not offer five years, and a brand that offers five years has to build hardware that will not give out first.

That guarantee is a construction promise as much as a piece of paperwork. The Durables line is built around solid hardware and hard-wearing materials rather than the printed webbing and light fittings that make up most of this market, and it is finished to stay comfortable against a dog through daily use rather than only looking right on the first outing. The kangaroo is the character version of that same build; the design changes and the standard behind it does not.

• Kangaroo character from Red Dingo's Durables range
• Covered by Red Dingo's five-year guarantee
• Hard-wearing materials with solid hardware
• Weighs 150g
• One option, with nothing to choose beyond the character
• Shipped tracked within the UK, with our 14-day returns promise

Two things worth knowing. And their own description reads as walking-gear copy while the product is listed as a toy, so we have asked them to clarify which it is instead of papering over it.

Who it's for: Owners buying into the Red Dingo range for the guarantee behind it, and anyone happy to choose by character rather than by specification.