{"id":475,"date":"2016-03-08T18:53:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T01:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asnaggydime.com\/blog\/?p=475"},"modified":"2016-03-08T18:53:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T01:53:41","slug":"stuffed-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/asnaggydime.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/08\/stuffed-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuffed Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing that never seems to go out of style are stuffed animals. Rag dolls representing people and animals date back to Roman times, but the modern version of a stuffed animal did not come around until 1880, when Steiff, a German toy company, reinvented this category of toys. The realistic looking animals with plush fur-like fabric were an instant hit.<\/p>\n

The Ideal Novelty and Toy Company copied this success in the United States and, in 1902, their success exploded with the creation of the Teddy Bear, inspired by a story of President Theodore Roosevelt sparing the life of a defenseless black bear while on a hunting trip.<\/p>\n

Stuffed toys have been good to us and we are always on the lookout for realistic looking, cute and cuddly animals<\/a>. And some of our best sellers tend to be the more unusual animals \u2013 armadillos<\/a>, bats<\/a>, marmots<\/a>, possums<\/a>, skunks<\/a>, squirrels<\/a>, etc. It seems that everyone already has a bear<\/a>, a moose<\/a> and a wolf<\/a> and while they are not poor sellers, they are easily trounced by the more esoteric members of the animal kingdom.<\/p>\n

At the Rocky Mountain Gift Show we met with our suppliers from Stuffed Animal House<\/a>, Northern Gifts<\/a>, Fiesta Toy<\/a> and Wild Republic<\/a> to talk about product lines and upcoming releases. There is always churn in manufacturer\u00a0offerings and we pick up the more interesting animals to help them find new homes.<\/p>\n

Looking to find an animal companion<\/a> with low maintenance needs? Come look at our collection!<\/p>\n

\"Stuffed<\/a>

Stuffed Animal House offers a wide variety of North American wildlife.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Northern<\/a>

Northern Gifts is the king of novelty Canned Critters.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Coming<\/a>

Northern Gifts will be adding new faces to their Canned Critters line in the next few months.<\/p><\/div>\n

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One thing that never seems to go out of style are stuffed animals. Rag dolls representing people and animals date back to Roman times, but the modern version of a stuffed animal did not come around until 1880, when Steiff, a German toy company, reinvented this category of toys. The realistic looking animals with plush […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plush"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4dcLB-7F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/asnaggydime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/asnaggydime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/asnaggydime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/asnaggydime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/asnaggydime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/asnaggydime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"http:\/\/asnaggydime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/asnaggydime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/asnaggydime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/asnaggydime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}