Remotely detachable animal leash

A leash for an animal collar, comprising:

• an elongated, flexible tether having releasable collar attachable catch means adjacent one end thereof, and a hand grip adjacent the other end thereof;
• the catch means including a pair of relatively reciprocable jaws which are openable to a position in which the jaws enable the catch means to be released from an attachment point on the collar, and closeable about an attachment point on the collar, when the catch means are so engaged, to a position in which the jaws enable the tether to be secured to the collar, and further including a buckle-like structure defining a tether-attaching element to which said tether is connected;
• latch means reciprocably mounted by said catch means and moveable relative to said jaws from a position where said jaws are locked into an engaged condition to a position where said jaws are unlocked into a disengaged condition;
• manual release means for the latch means, including a hand-operated actuator which is disposed on the tether adjacent the hand grip thereof, and a elongated release cord extending longitudinally through said tether and interconnecting the latch means and the hand-operated actuator to reciprocate the latch means between the jaw-locking position and the jaw-unlocking position thereof, said cord extending through the structure of said tether-attaching element to a point of attachment with said latch means,
• and a cord-confining sheath abutting and extending from the catch means tether-attaching element through the tether to said hand-operated actuator, said cord extending through said sheath from its point of departure from said tether-attaching element structure to said hand-operated actuator.