Features:

  • Who will you rescue? Will your Blue Scruff-a-Luv be a Puppy, Kitten or Bunny?
  • Wash them, dry them and brush them to reveal who they are.
  • Includes brush, hair clip, collar and tag.
  • Each Scruff-a-Luv comes with an adoption certificate.
  • Color: Blue
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Don’t read bad reviews!

If you have most of your brain, your Scruff-a-Luv can turn out adorable and you can have a great time with your kids! Try watching the product video that Amazon has posted. Then try following the directions. Do NOT put this in the washer and then dry it on high heat and expect to have a beautiful stuffed animal magically appear. Do NOT hand this to a 2 year old while you play on your phone and then complain when it doesn’t come out looking like a million bucks. We got the exact same product, and ours is perfect! We gently soaked and swirled it in a tub of warm water with baby shampoo. Don’t wring the crap out of it. Be gentle. Give it a good five minutes in the sudsy water. Add a little conditioner toward the end of this. Then gently re-roll it back in a ball shape while squeezing gently to get some water out. Dump your dirty water and get some clean warm water, and rinse the animal. Gently roll and squeeze again. Place it on a thick towel and gently roll from the feet up in the towel like the ball it came in again, squeezing some more water out. Get your hair dryer on low heat, and brush while you dry. Let your child use the brush that came with it, while you use a hairbrush or a wire dog brush. Give her a little shake once in a while, like a dog would do after a bath. Water will come out. Keep drying, and brushing, going in the direction the hair comes out of the toy, which varies all over the animal. Make sure you find where the ears connect, and the legs and arms, and brush from the feet toward the body too. Brush and dry the white belly extra as it takes longer to dry. When you’re done, you will have a darling lovey your child will adore! I’ve attached some pictures from our experience.

7 year old loved it

My 7 year old little LOVES this. HINT: We shampooed it with Redken all soft shampoo and used a little Redken all soft conditioner, towel dried it, brushed it, hung out to air dry and it finally looks like a real stuffed animal and feels very soft. Initially, we didn’t read the instructions and did everything it says not to do, which left the scruff-a-luv looking super rough.

Daughter Loves It

I'm confused about the negative reviews. My 6 yo loves it! She got the pink bunny. We put it in a bowl of warm water with a bit of body wash to make it smell good. She had a grand ol time bathing her bunny. We rinsed very well, then tumble dried in the dryer. She spent about 15 minutes brushing, then I took over brushing in the opposite direction. The bunny is now very soft and fluffy! My daughter adores it. Yes it's a $20 stuffed animal. My daughter already has a ton of stuffed animals, but I think she's more attached to this one because she had to clean it up/take care of it so to speak first.

Fantastic!

This is absolutely adorable! You get a little scruff ball, collar, brush, bow, and adoption certificate. The key to it coming out great is a long bath with soap and rinsing very well in clean water. I blow dried mine with the hair dryer on medium heat and gave her a good brushing after drying. It’s like bathing drying and brushing a real pet! I highly recommend and am already planning a future purchase of a pink one. Be sure your child takes the time to enjoy the whole process and the results should be great!

Love this toy

Really enjoyed this toy. The ears were showing, so after opening the box it was not a surprise that it was going to be a cat, but this little guy has so much personality in his fluff. Used a conditioning shampoo when washing. Does not quite have the cotton candy look as in the display photos, but the fur is so fun to play with. The body is floppy and easily posed. You can even trim the fur if you prefer it less “Einstein-y”. I can see where this toy would be more suitable for an older child or at least with lots of help from an adult. I’m excited to see what else this company might come out with. Photos from when it was still slightly damp, and after dried and groomed. *Update, after another purchase, I realized you are able to achieve the cotton candy fur look by use of a different brush. I was able to make it look at least similar to the product photos. So, the fur is capable of this look, just not by use of the brush provided. I used my actual cat’s wire brush.

Fun toy, if you ignore some flaws.

I'm giving this five stars because my daughter has had so much fun with it and loves her new little puppy. That being said, I feel like this toy is way overpriced for what it is. It's an awesome concept and we all had fun bathing it, revealing which animal my daughter got, combing the animal's hair, and putting on the accessories. But after it's washed, dried, and groomed, it somewhat resembles a Dollar Tree stuffed animal. Because this toy comes as a matted ball of fur that has been balled up for who knows how long, in the end, it is disfigured and misshapen. Limbs are helplessly twisted, the head is lopsided, the face is squished flat, and stuffing inside is all bunched. And there's not a lot you can do to fix it. In addition to all of this, my daughter's puppy has a head that is way too big for its body. It's supposed to sit up, but that's nearly impossible with how top heavy it is.

Such a fun process + adorable toy!

We absolutely loved this toy! It is such a fun process from “rescuing” it, to giving it a bath and grooming and then discovering whether you got a bunny, kitty or puppy. It was fun and the end result is just adorable.

Messy Hair Don’t Care

First off retail price is $19.99, don’t pay more. I have to say it’s pretty adorable all groomed up but it takes a lot of brushing to get it to that point. Upon opening the box you get this matted up ball that you have to wash to reveal what animal you get, kitten, puppy or bunny plus a hair bow, brush, collar and adoption certificate. My daughter took her to take bath with her to wash her to reveal she has gotten a puppy and then we opted for the spin option on the washer to dry her. Then brushed her for about an hour to get her fur feeling soft and bonus you get covered in hair just like brushing a real dog. I would say the more you brush it the more the hair will cooperate. Now she looks like an adorably cute stray who could honestly use a haircut but my daughter loves it and that is what is important. She added the blue one to her birthday list if that says anything about how fun she has had taking care of her new pet.

Fun for a little bit

Exactly what it looks like. It takes a lot to make this thing look like the picture. My son took his in the bath for a log time time. Even used bubble bath on it. We blow dried it and then the real work starts. Brushing takes a while and it looses a lot of hair. Kind of messy. All in all it’s fun and surprising.

Brush while you dry for best fluff

Not sure why people are complaining about this adorable product! I got this for my 5 year old daughter, we washed it with clarifying shampoo, we used quite a bit of shampoo on this bad boy and rinsed it well then washed it again to make sure none of the crunchy stuff was left, once it was all clean and well rinsed in the tub we blowdryed it on high, while we dried it we also brushed it at the same time using the brush provided. It did not turn out scruffy at all! “Bubblegum the bunny” turned out so cute and soft and fluffy! It took a little extra time but well worth it for it to turn out right. I definitely recommend washing it with shampoo twice, rinsing super well, ringing it out, and then brushing WHILE blow drying, not after.

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