JML Crazy Critters - PC NOT!

MamaMoo_2

Also, what's your beef with squirrels? Speciesism is very un-PC y'know...

SueMaggie

QuackQuack wrote: »

Got to hand it to the Ronco/K-Tel of the noughties - JML - for poor taste this Christmas!

Their Crazy Critters toys for dogs to try and rip apart with their teeth. Nothing unusual about that, apart from coming some rather un PC varieties like Fox, Badger & Rabit LOL.

I thought we had passed laws to outlaw dogs ripping foxes apart!

http://www.jmldirect.com/invt/c13cr70100000001?gclid=CP2mzpzo-awCFUJItAodZBJrbg

That was sensitively and carefully thought out at the design and marketing stage then! Make mine a squirrel!

These were being sold last Christmas too. I contacted JML to complain and got the usual "thanks for your feedback" brush off. It obviously made no difference if they're still selling them.

I volunteer for a wildlife rescue charity and have seen what damage dogs (and cats for that matter) can do to wildlife, so not amused by a toy encouraging dogs in this behaviour.

scheming_gypsy

it's not encouranging anything, except to play with toys or rags. A dog isn't going to go and kill a wild fox because it plays with a stuffed one any more than mine are going to kill chickens because they eat chicken.


or maybe you've solved the whole issue of dog attacks; keep them away from dolls and they won't attack kids.

QuackQuack_2

The Dog has no concept of taste (unless it's a chewy, juicy bone...) - it's a human thing. But here's the rub, it's humans that buy this stuff and from a human perspective - it's in poor taste imho. Not in a big way, but just distasteful enough to make me think "ewwwe, that's a bit wrong"

Dave_C_2

I note from the website that they do a tiger option.
As far as I know there are no laws in this country preventing hunting tigers with dogs. Or even the other way round.

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Dave

QuackQuack_2

Dave_C wrote: »

I note from the website that they do a tiger option.
As far as I know there are no laws in this country preventing hunting tigers with dogs. Or even the other way round.

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Dave

An African tiger, or an Indian tiger?

texranger

QuackQuack wrote: »

An African tiger, or an Indian tiger?

Bengal Tiger

for years we have had stuffed mice for cats, stuffed cats for dogs and many more stuffed pets toys, so what is the difference.

Gothicfairy

My dog has an old tiny tears that he likes to chew on, does that make him a danger to small babies ? He loves children (it's me that can't stand the little darlings ) but would happily rip a rabbit to bits if he caught it.

A dog or cat toy is just that, a toy. They don't have a clue what it really is meant to look like and more to the point they couldn't care less..Cat's have mice toys and dogs have squeaky plastic chickens, that is just how it goes.

MamaMoo_2

SueMaggie wrote: »

These were being sold last Christmas too. I contacted JML to complain and got the usual "thanks for your feedback" brush off. It obviously made no difference if they're still selling them.

I volunteer for a wildlife rescue charity and have seen what damage dogs (and cats for that matter) can do to wildlife, so not amused by a toy encouraging dogs in this behaviour.

Maybe they stop the dogs from attacking animals. Maybe the dogs use them as an animal replacement product, like doggy Quorn...

Dave_C_2

QuackQuack wrote: »

An African tiger, or an Indian tiger?

Laden or unladen?