Affiliate Disclosure

The short version

Hound & Field is reader-funded through Amazon affiliate commissions. If you buy something through a link on this site, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.

That commission does not buy a place in a ranking, a score, or a kinder verdict. It never has and it never will. If that ever changes, this page will say so before a single review reflects it.

The Amazon Associates statement

Hound & Field is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

Exactly who we earn from

We think you are entitled to know this precisely, so here it is.

We earn a commission from:

• Amazon — links to Amazon carry our affiliate tag and are marked rel="sponsored nofollow"

That is the entire list. Amazon is our only earning partner. We are not in any other affiliate network, and we have no paid relationship with any dog gear brand.

We earn nothing from:

• Ruffwear
• Kurgo
• K9 Ballistics
• Kuranda
• Big Barker
• Gunner
• Impact Dog Crates
• Diggs
• Sleepypod
• Blue-9
• 2 Hounds Design

When we link to one of those manufacturers — usually to their spec sheet or their warranty document, because the manufacturer’s own page is almost always more useful than a retailer listing — we make no money at all. We link there because it is the right place to send you, and the page says so plainly.

Several products we recommend are not sold on Amazon at all— the Lucky Duck kennel, the Saker harness, Big Barker’s beds. We recommend them anyway, and we earn nothing when you buy them. A recommendation we cannot monetise is still the right recommendation.

Buyer first, commission second

There is a version of this business where you rank whatever pays best. We are not running that version, and here is the concrete test: on this site, the top pick in a roundup is sometimes the product we earn least from, and in a couple of cases it is one we earn nothing from.

Where a manufacturer’s own store is a better deal, better stocked, or offers a better warranty than Amazon, we say so and link there — even though it costs us the commission. If you cannot trust us to do that, nothing else on this site is worth anything.

Prices

Every price on this site is pulled live from Amazon’s own API and stamped with the date it was fetched. Prices change constantly, and the price you see when you click may not be the price we last saw.

We never write a price by hand.If our data is more than 48 hours old, the number disappears automatically and the page falls back to “Check price on Amazon.” We would rather show you no number than a wrong one, and there is deliberately no way for a stale or invented figure to reach the page.

The same rule applies to product data. Every ASIN, image and title comes from Amazon’s API. Where we could not verify a product, it is not on the site.

What we will never do

• Invent a review, a rating, or a review count. We publish no star ratings and no testimonials, because we have no user-review data. Our durability score is our own editorial judgement and it is labelled as such.
• Claim we tested something we did not. Every product carries a line telling you the basis on which it was assessed. Our methodology is published in full.
• Take payment for inclusion or for a score. No brand has paid to appear here, and none can.
• Accept free samples. We buy what we assess.
• Hide a link. Every earning link is marked, and every commercial page carries a disclosure at the top — not buried at the bottom.

Why this page exists

The US Federal Trade Commission requires that material connections between a publisher and the products it recommends be disclosed clearly and conspicuously. We agree with that rule, and we would do this anyway.

Every page on this site that carries an earning link says so at the top, before you read a single recommendation. Not in the footer, not in a collapsed accordion — at the top, where it changes how you read what follows. That is what “clear and conspicuous” is supposed to mean.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, or you think we have fallen short of it, email Info@houndandfield.com. We would genuinely rather hear it from you than not.