Review: Skinneeez Tons O Squeakers Bear

I'm on Baby Patches' Testing Team. Baby Patches runs things over at Nip and Bones. When you're a member of her tester team, she sends you stuff to review for her. Testers don't get paid to write stuff, so our reviews are totally honest. And we also get to keep the stuff we review, which is totally cool!

So the other day I got a new TOY to test out for Baby Patches. (You know how I love my squeakies!) Mom was busy messing with the toy, trying to take the tags off it, but she was basically tormenting me by not letting me HAVE THAT TOY.

I took matters into my own hands and just jumped up and grabbed it from her!


Baby Patches sent me the Skinneeez Tons O Squeakers Bear! Here's what it looks like when I'm not slobbering on it and plucking it:

After I got the bear away from Mom, I gave him a good inspection.

OH MY GOODNESS. This bear is Toy Heaven for me. When they say "tons o squeakers" they MEAN IT. He's got 19 squeakers! Seriously...19 squeakers!!! I ain't joking. There are squeakers in his legs, feet, arms, hands, head, and body. Just about every part of him SQUEAKS.

And because Mr. Bear (any toy with that many squeakers deserves a little respect) is stuffing free, he's super duper easy for me to get my little teeth on those squeakers. In my opinion, the easier to squeak, the better!

Mr. Bear also rates high for pluckability. I love to pluck the fur off my toys. Mr. Bear has just enough fur to pluck, but it's also short enough that Mom's not constantly pulling big pieces of fur out of my mouth!

And let's face it, with 19 squeakers, Mr. Bear is totally fun to roll on. And roll I did...


And I rolled some more...


And I even "crazy dog" rolled because I was having so much fun!


After all of my jumping, investigating, plucking, and rolling, I had to take a nap. Even though he's stuffing free, Mr. Bear made a pretty nice pillow.


The only downside to Mr. Bear is that Mom won't play tug with him anymore. We played a little bit (while we were playing fetch with him), but we heard a ripping sound when Mom tugged.

Mom thinks that one of the inside seams holding the squeakies in place must have torn open. We couldn't find any ouchies on Mr. Bear's outside, but he ended up with 2 squeakies in his foot, and one is missing from his leg. So, Mom won't let me play tug with him anymore 'cause she's scared we'll tear open something else.

Overall, though, I think Mr. Bear is an excellent toy. You just can't beat a toy with 19 squeakers that are EASY to squeak! I've been carrying him around with me for a while now.

So if you like a lot of squeakers and easy pluckability, go get yourself a Skinneeez Tons O Squeakers Bear!

My Mr. Bear is actually guarding things under our bed right now. I took him under there to watch out for monsters that could be hiding down there. And also, of course, to enjoy some middle-of-the-night squeaking. (Mom hates when I do that! Mwwaaahahaha!)

Cleaning the Apartment

Mom's been in a cleaning mood lately. Here's how I helped last night:

Then I helped Mom by rolling in a clean spot.


And I rolled some more.


I suppose I could show you the videos Mom took, too. I was such a good helper! Mom calls this video "Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle."

Just ignore all that noise coming from the washing machine. The squeaks and grunts are the important parts, you know.

Here's me helping Mom clean some more...

And then, of course, I went back to napping.

After all, that cleaning is hard work.

Stuffing Collection

Last night, Mom started taking up a collection as she walked around the house. "What was she collecting?" you may ask. Here you go:

Yep. That's stuffing from stuffies. She found little pieces all, all, all over the place and decided to put the little pieces into a pile. I have NO idea where all those pieces came from, but I had to check out the collection, of course.


And then I went and found a squeaky toy and played with it while sitting in the stuffy pile.


Mom had the nerve to suggest that I was responsible for the stuffy mess. She said that I was the one who plucked holes in the stuffies...de-stuffed them...and then left the little pieces all over. The nerve of her!


I decided that I was NOT going to sit in that stuffy pile and be blamed for creating the mess. I took my squeaky and walked away.


This is the face of innocence, I tell you.

If you don't believe me, just send me more stuffies and I'll prove it to you. He he he...

Walking

The sun was shining today, and Mom didn't think it was too cold outside, so we went for a walk. And when I say "walk," I mean WALK. We walked around our pond! We haven't walked that far in months.

Mom says we both got too lazy (not me!) and we needed some good exercise. So off we went!

I was excited because we haven't gone towards the pond in forever, so there were all sorts of new smells for me to sniff!


I had a ton of unsniffed pee-mail to check out.


"Oh, we gotta go that way, too, so I can sniff that tree over there..."


More pee-mail.


There was a TON of "news" to check on the garbage can!


Yet another good sniff spot. (Mom ended up with lots of pictures of me sniffing...)


Mom says the blue garbage can is for recyclables and the green can is for poops.


Here's a scenic picture of my pond.


See how my ears are blown back in this pic and I'm giving Mom a look?


Well that's because Mom "thought" it wasn't cold out...but it WAS! I froze my hiney off. The wind was blowing strong, too. Here's what the weather actually was:

So when I saw our house starting to come into view, I RAN that way!


It was so nice to be inside where it was warm! Mom thought I'd be exhausted from our long walk, but I still had enough energy left to roll for a while on a squeaky.


But I've spent all evening snoozing on the couch.


It was great to get to go on a walk around the pond again! Maybe we should wait for it to warm up before we go again, though. The pee-mail was practically frozen!

A Jungle Out There

Somebody decided that the trees where I live needed a haircut. At least I guess that's what happened because out of the blue THIS happened:

Hmm...I smell squirrels...


Yep. Definitely squirrels...


Those poor trees, though. Just look at how many limbs were cut off!


At this point in our walk Mom realized she should turn off the flash on her camera. (Someday she'll learn...)


That's a lot of limbs!

See the little piles of limbs in the picture below? The tree trimmers weren't done...by last night, that whole area was FULL of limbs, too!



I feel sad for the trees, of course, but there's a larger issue here. WHERE am I supposed to go potty?! Those limbs are taking up all my good grassy spots!

It's a jungle out there...and I'm a puppy who can't find a spot to poo. Mom and I hope the trimmers clean up that mess soon! If the rain from today freezes, the limbs could be frozen to the ground. I can't be expected to "hold it" until spring!

The Snoring Blanket

Tonight, Mom noticed that the orange blanket on our couch was snoring!  Then she looked closer and saw a little tuft of white fur sticking out...

Oh, yes.  The source of the snoring was discovered.

But I couldn't be bothered by Mom's rude "photo shoot."  I just went right back to sleep!

She shouldn't have woken me up anyway, right?!

Seeing the Big Man

Did you know that Santa Claus was at Petsmart last weekend?  Yep!  I usually go see him there each year...or at least each year since I've lived with Mom.  This year Mom got me these ridiculous Christmas PJs to wear, too.  She said my white furs blend in too much with the Big Man's white furs.

Anyway, the PJs were a bit absurd, but everybody in Petsmart kept giving me lots of attention because of them.  Guess it worked out well.

And then it was time for me to see Santa himself. He played with me for a bit before he picked me up for the photo.  

You can probably guess what I told him... I've been a very good, if only slightly ornery, pup this year, and for Christmas I'd like him to bring me toys, cookies, toys, bully sticks, and TOYS!

I sure hope he agrees I'm on the "good" and not "naughty" list... He he he...