Pippa & the Bumblebee (Help)

[Lori, Daphne, Lucy & Pippa]

Ok, I know this is a long shot but a Mom has to try. While looking for pictures of my girls with their favorite toy, I came across quite a few of Pippa with her very favorite...Bumblebee. She absolutely loves the bees! She has one in her mouth at all times. She takes it outside for her potty breaks and comes right back in with it.

Once in a while she drops it and comes back inside the house without it. Before long I hear a high pitched bark at the back door and know she has remembered her forgotten bee. I open the door and off she goes to rescue it.

Those poor bees are looking pretty awful! They came out of a Hide-a-bee toy. I hate how bad they look but she chooses that bee before all her other (many other) toys. I have contacted the company in an effort to buy replacements. They have since changed the look and style of the bees and don't have any old stock left. The old bees were a plastic cylinder that squeaked (ours quit squeaking long ago). The new bees are fatter and have more of a stuffed body like the one in the middle below.

Pippa could hardly wait for me to get done taking their picture so she could get her favorite bee again.

On the off chance that someone has this toy and their dog does not love it like Pippa does, I am making this plea. Please help me! I am seriously willing to pay for any bees in better shape than the sad ones I already have. Name your price.

[Three Doodle Life]

They sell replacement bees on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Outward-Hound-31014-Replacement-Multicolor/dp...

I've bought replacement squirrels for Beowoof. :-)

[Lori, Daphne, Lucy & Pippa]

Thanks V but those are the new version and have a stuffed body. I guess they just don't fit her mouth.

[Three Doodle Life]

Pippa is so cute, by the way! :-)

[Lori, Daphne, Lucy & Pippa]

Thank you!

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Lori, Can you de-stuff them a bit?

[Lori, Daphne, Lucy & Pippa]

If I did that they would just be flat. The ones ones she likes have a plastic cylinder under the cloth that Im guessing just fits perfectly in her mouth. The new ones don't have that.

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

:-[  so sad!

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

Our Murphy was like that with the squirrel version of these stuffed toys, up until he tore them up at around 10 months of age. I replaced once, but when he tore those up I just stopped getting stuffed toys. He went on to use more durable chew toys and but no longer has a favorite like he did with the squirrels. If I have some bees I'd be happy to send them to you though.

[Lori, Daphne, Lucy & Pippa]

Sue, they sell those squirrels by themselves at a pet supply store near here. The owner said a lot of dogs love them so she sells them individually. I bought a couple but they just don't hold the same attraction as that damn bee! Lol!

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

Once a Bee lover, always a Bee lover, huh? lol. I'm sure I couldve gotten more squirrels, but by then he was eating anything stuffed in 5 mins. We went on to Kongs from there.