Wickedbone

£90 / wickedbone.co.uk

There’s something macabre about dogs’ obsession with bones, isn’t there? Still, this one looks more cheerful than anything they’ll find in the flowerbeds of that neighbour whose wife you never see any more.

From the same people behind the cat-distracting Wickedball on p62, this humerus-shaped toy connects to your phone via Bluetooth and lets you steer it around the floor with an on-screen joystick. Even better, when you’re not there (or just have something better to do), its interactive mode sees it whizzing around the floor autonomously like a sort of robotic Adama Traore.

Battery life is rated at 40 minutes in drive mode (when you’re controlling it), and 4hrs when it’s doing its own thing. It has a repertoire of flips, spins and other moves, and reacts differently according to how it’s touched thanks to what the makers ambitiously call an ‘emotional system’. Heck, you might as well just get one of these and not bother having a dog.

CHEW WIN AGAIN The rubber ‘tyres’ on the ends come in blue or white. Got a dog that chews everything to death? You can get a spare set in blue, pink or green for £29.