Recall at distance is the hardest thing most owners ever teach, and the gap that opens up is really a timing problem. By the time your voice has carried to a dog two fields away, the moment you were responding to has already passed. A handset that works over long distances closes that gap and lets you mark behaviour the instant it happens rather than shouting into the wind and hoping.

The set is a backlit handheld remote and a receiver collar with reflective webbing, both USB rechargeable, working over a stated range of up to 1,500 metres. Three modes are available, a tone, a vibration and a static correction, with adjustable levels within them. Used well, the tone becomes a marker a dog learns to associate with something good arriving, and a great deal of the work never needs to go any further than that.

• Stated working range of up to 1,500 metres
• Tone, vibration and static modes with adjustable levels
• Backlit handset for early mornings and winter evenings
• Reflective receiver collar
• USB rechargeable
• Packs at 8 x 8 x 16cm, weighing 280g

Please read this before you buy. Static correction collars are banned in Wales and their use is contested elsewhere in the UK, so check the current rules where you live, because they have been changing. Beyond the law, a static setting used badly teaches a dog to fear the field rather than to come back, and behaviour built on fear is not something we would sell you as training. Use the tone and vibration, pair them with rewards, and involve a qualified behaviourist for serious recall problems.

Who it's for: Owners working on distance recall in open country who will stay with the tone and vibration, and who have checked what is legal where they live.