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I’m definitely no toy snob. If you look around our house you’ll find your various and sundry plastic toys: Polly Pocket and her microscopic stilettos, enough My Little Ponies to start a stampede, and your usual dollar store treasures and Happy Meal loot. We do have some nice wooden toys, but our toy collection will never be approved for a Montessori playroom.
Miss C did some pet sitting for our neighbor after Christmas and was paid with a Wal-Mart gift card. Just before school started back, in a post-holiday eggnog overdose induced fog of boredom and bad judgment, I told Miss C we’d head over to Wal-Mart with an exchange I needed to make and she could bring along her gift card and scope out the toys.
I guess I’ve never been brave, or stupid, enough to venture into Wal-Mart’s toy department a few weeks after Christmas, but entire sections of the shelves were nearly bare and not much was on sale. As we say in the South, the pickins were slim.
We circled back to the Barbie aisle and we spotted a Barbie and Tanner play set, otherwise known as Barbie and the dog who poops tiny brown pellets that unfortunately look just like Tic Tacs. Miss C loves her new Barbie and the pooping dog. It was toy karma, really. I mean she had just earned some spending money for pet sitting, and here was this poop scoopin’ Barbie.
Now if I can only teach our dogs to poop in little perfect cylindrical turds, just like Tanner. That would be a cool trick.
Oh, that’s LOVELY. Could you replace the brown pellets with actual tic tacs and make it a dispenser?
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Addison has that freakin toy! I thought it was especially gross that after you scoop up the magnetic poop pellets you put them directly into the dog food bowl for the next meal. Ewwwww!
She also got one this year that you feed the puppies a bottle of water and they pee on a newspaper. Clearly we are not toy snobs either!
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I love the tic tac dispenser idea! Think I may have to get one just so I can offer round tic-tacs at the school gate and see the reaction.
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Pooping dog is cool!:)))
We have real cat and he poop too:) SOfia is always interested in this process. nothing to say about her own poo:))
If I could just get my dog to poop where I want him to I’d take him to Walmart on a toy shopping spree.
No kidding? That toy exists?
When my nephews visited a few years ago, at ages 4 and 2, their favorite activity at my house was using the pooper scooper to clean up the yard.
Here’s the link to the toy on Amazon just so ya’ll know I’m not making this shit up!
http://www.amazon.com/Mattel-N0581-Barbie-Tanner-Playset/dp/B000VRJQRK
enjoyed your post