Quote Originally Posted by Lobodeb
In my experience, the cheaper retractables are the ones that can amputate. They are the ones that use a string like material. The more expensive ones actually have a nylon, leash like line. I guess anything being reeled in a high speed can cause injury, however.
Well, yes, but most uneducated people are the same people that want the cheapest one.

I personally don't like them. I like keeping my dogs close so I really have no use for them. I just have leather 6ft leads. And, if I want to let them roam, I just let them off leash.