In today’s installment of Toy Insider and Family Circle magazine’s “25 Days of Toys,” Toy Insider Editor-in-Chief Ali Mierzejewski and Social Media Editor Sugey Palomares show off toy pets that your kids will love caring for. For more on the items featured in this segment, check out the product notes below, and for the complete rundown of the best toys of the holiday season, be sure to check our complete Toy Insider Holiday Gift Guide.
- Rescue Runts need a home to call their own! The super soft plush puppies show up on your doorstep with matted fur, dirty paws, boo boos, and fleas.
- Care for your Rescue Runt using the included grooming kit!
- Use the tweezers to pluck out “fleas.”
- Wipe their tears away and clean their dirty paws with the towel.
- Brush their messy fur with the brush.
- Remove their bandages, perk up their ears and make them smile to complete the transformation from ragged runt into perfect pet!
- Write their name on the collar and adoption certificate to make the adoption official.
- Rescue Runts’ messy fur, downturned ears, dirty paws, and bandages can be restored for repeat animal rescue play.
- Ages: 3+
- MSRP: $19.99
- Available at Walmart
DISNEY JUNIOR DOC MCSTUFFINS PET RESCUE MOBILE (JUST PLAY PRODUCTS)
- The newest theme on the acclaimed Disney Junior series, Doc McStuffins, is Pet Rescue!
- Kids can race to save the pets of McStuffinsville – just like Doc!
- Designed for on-the-go care, the Pet Rescue Mobile is equipped with lights, music, phrases, and play medical tools and accessories, including an electronic EKG reader, talking stethoscope and light & sound control panel!
- Doc’s adorable pet friend Oliver is included, and kids will love helping Oliver feel better by checking his heartbeat and diagnosing boo-boos with the light-up play X-ray display!
- Ages: 3+
- MSRP: $49.99
- Available: Amazon, Target, Walmart, Kmart
- Each Scruff‐a‐Luv comes as a matted ball of colored fur with only its eyes showing, so it’s a mystery what animal kids are rescuing! The adorable animal is revealed by washing the matted ball in water, towel drying the animal, blast drying it with a hair dryer, and brushing and styling its fur.
- Each Scruff‐a‐Luv comes with a collar, name tag, adoption certificate, brush and hair clips.
- Scruff‐a‐luvs can be washed over and over again. This special kind of plush allows kids to play with it in the bath, role play with it, and care for it like a real pet – the possibilities are endless!
- Age: 4+
- MSRP: $19.99
- Available: Amazon, Target
