
Our golden retriever worked out where the water came from faster than my husband did. Hose on, and it was filled and arcing in about ninety seconds. He has not left the garden since.
the three seconds before they realise
You screw the hose on, you turn the tap, and for about three seconds nothing happens. The mat swells, the ring fills, and every kid in the garden goes completely still watching it.
Then the water arcs up and the noise starts. That's the whole product. A flat blue circle that turns a boring hot afternoon into the bit of summer they'll actually remember.
your dog's favourite day of the year
Most sprinklers are for children and most cooling mats are for dogs. This is the rare thing they use together โ the kids jumping through the arc while the dog bites the water and then flops flat in the middle to cool off.
The surface is soft, padded and grippy under wet paws, so there's no scrabbling and no claws going through it. Dogs that hate baths tend to love this, because nothing is being done to them.
up in a minute, away in a minute
It connects to any standard garden hose โ no adapter hunting, no electricity, nothing to charge. Lay it flat, screw it on, turn the tap. Water pressure does the inflating and the spraying at the same time.
Turn the tap off and it drains and deflates on its own. Give it ten minutes in the sun, fold it down smaller than a beach towel and it goes in a drawer until the next hot day.
100cm ยท 150cm ยท 200cm
100cm suits one dog or one small child on a patio or balcony. 150cm is the one most people want โ two kids and a dog with room to move, and it still fits a normal lawn.
200cm is the party size. Three kids fit on it at once with space to sit down, which is the difference between playing together and taking turns.

Our golden retriever worked out where the water came from faster than my husband did. Hose on, and it was filled and arcing in about ninety seconds. He has not left the garden since.

At full pressure the ring throws water about waist height on me, so roughly a metre. Turn the tap down halfway and it's a gentle dome the toddler will walk through. That range is the whole thing.

Went for the 200cm because I have three kids and I am glad I did. All three fit on it at once with room to sit down. The 150 would have been a turn-taking argument all afternoon.

Folds down smaller than a beach towel and lives in the bottom kitchen drawer between uses. Only note: give it ten minutes in the sun to dry first or you're folding away a damp thing.

My rescue lurcher would not go within three metres of it for two days. I ran it at very low pressure and let her sniff the edge. Third afternoon she was biting the spray. Patience paid off.

This got us through the July heatwave. Out on the patio every single day for three weeks in thirty-plus degrees, packed away wet more than once, and the seams have not budged at all.

The best bit is the three seconds after you turn the tap and before they realise it's coming. My two now stand on it waiting like it's a fairground ride. Screaming, every time.

Grips our decking properly with no sliding, and the padded rim is soft enough that my four-year-old belly-flopped onto it and just laughed. I would have liked a slightly longer hose thread.

Our French bulldog starts overheating about four minutes into a walk. She lies flat in the middle of the 100cm and just breathes. Cheapest cooling solution we have tried and she chooses it herself.

Screwed straight onto a bog-standard garden hose with no adapter fiddling. Bag to spraying was under a minute, and packing it away took about the same. Ordered a second for my sister.