This post is different from my normal content, but I’m desperate here.
When my little sister was five and I was nine, we each bought a stuffed animal, a puppy dog. Mine is brown, and hers was cream-colored, and they were great comforts through moving, and growing up in an abusive household, and everything else that comes with that.
My sister lost hers at camp several years ago, and she’s been sad about it ever since. I’ve looked everywhere: ebay, amazon, thrift stores, rummage sales, talked to people on facebook, contacted the camp and the people that went there, tried to find the toy manufacturer (out of business), I attempted to contact the local store where we bought it…nothing.
I really want to help my sister here, and find her stuffed animal, or at least, one just like it. Again, this was a huge comfort to her through so much stuff that happened. It was always by her side, and it made her feel so happy, and since it’s been gone, I know she feels like something’s missing. She loved it so much.
I know that my only tool left to find it at this point is word-of-mouth. So if you would, could you spread this to as many people as you can? Put it on facebook if you want, screenshot it and send it to your friends, I don’t mind. I just want to help my little sister get her comfort animal back.
It’s a 12″-ish stuffed puppy dog, and the brand is Caltoy. Here are some pictures of mine, so you can see what hers is supposed to look like:
The only differences are that hers was a light yellow-cream color, and I think the ribbon on hers was blue (though I could be wrong about that).
More specifics:
It was sitting up, and had no tail. It was all the same color like this one, no dark ears/paws/etc, just the dark nose. It was made by Caltoy in or around 2003.
I would really like to find this for my sister, so that she can have that comfort again, and she definitely needs it right now.
Please share it as much as you can, to friends or followers, whoever you can. I will be so grateful to all of you who help. ❤
My contact info: starshipme (at) gmail.com, Askbox, and feel free to use tumblr messenger as well!
Updates, 7/6/17:
Still no luck finding her dog. A few people have offered to make her a new one, or linked me to services that make custom plushies. And that’s so sweet of them, but I’m still really hoping that I can find it somewhere, instead of having to make one custom, and my sister feels the same way..
Someone also found a listing on ebay for a very similar dog – exactly the same as mine, actually. same color and everything! But my sister decided that although it’s close, she really wants one like hers.
A good thing though, is that I found pictures she’d taken of her puppy, from ages ago! So, now you can all see a better example of what hers looked like:
The lighting is very bright in these photos, which is good because you can see the ribbon and that the eyes have a little brown around them (that wouldn’t be visible in darker lighting), but also makes the puppy look whiter than it actually was. It was a bit more creamy in person, if that makes sense.
I want to thank everyone so much for helping me in this search so far! You’ve all been so encouraging and supportive, and I appreciate your kind and helpful messages, so much! ❤
Update 2/16/18:
A lot of folks have been reblogging the original version of this recently, but this version has the correct pictures, so use this one instead. 😛
We still haven’t found the puppy 😦 there are actually two of mine for sale on ebay right now (I’m tempted to buy one just in case), but no cream ones yet.
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