Removable Squeaker Dog Toy Recall
We are issuing our own Dog Toy Recall. We had mistakenly believed SimplyFido in their labeling of certain plush dog toys that we backed up here at DogToyStuffz.com. We were told, via the SimplyFido website, that they had products that were not only organic dog toys but that they offered these dog toys with removable squeakers. We even wrote about these great safe, soft, plush organic dog and puppy toys in our Cutest Organic Dog Toys article. We even invited Oscar The Monkey into our house!
We are going to leave our original article up, but will be updating it with more appropriate information so you can keep up with us and our suggestions on safe organic dog toys. Note the strike-thru on the word “removable” in removable squeaker of our pictures – seen here:
For us, we still hesitate in referring to a dog or puppy toy as organic in nature if it has plastic parts. Squeakers, see our article on What Makes the Squeak in a Squeaky Dog Toy, are generally made of non-organic plastic materials. We especially don’t like squeakers because of certain safety issues. For one squeakers in dog toys don’t digest properly and can seriously hurt your dog if swallowed (like our poor Sydney!). And, the obvious reason for a dog toy being considered organic is if all parts are bio-degradable, carbon based or made from similar natural products.
We have written SimplyFido about the sudden change in products and availability. It seems that the company is under some sort of reorganization because their Simply Fido website is a mess right now. Seen below is a partial view of their site upon our initial research and their site as it is seen today – note there is no mention of “removable squeaker” any more:
Anyway, we will keep you up-to-date if Simply Fido responds to us and continue to search and review safe dog and puppy toys – especially those that have no-squeakers in the dog toy if possible.
Again, our apologies!
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Tags: dog toys, puppy toys
March 5th, 2009 at 12:22 am
Hello. Great job. This is a great story. Thanks!
May 13th, 2009 at 7:39 am
I am slightly confused as to what you mean. Do you intend to say that the squeakers are not, in fact, removable? Or simply that they are not organic?
May 13th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Thank you for writing, Danielle!
To answer your question, the SimplyFido dog toys themselves are still organic (stuffing and fabric). The squeaker part, however, is not organic nor is it any longer removable. We have yet to know of any squeaker part in a dog toy that is actually organic!
We issued our own personal recall as SimplyFido had stated that their stuffed dog toys had removable (or replaceable) squeaker parts. This is no longer the case and/or was a mis-representation on their part. We have written to them but have not heard word. Since our report, they have also changed their website. We suspect new ownership or something!
May 28th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Great post! Just wanted to let you know you have a new subscriber- me!
June 5th, 2009 at 12:46 am
I really liked this post. Can I copy it to my site? Thank you in advance.
June 5th, 2009 at 9:20 am
Send us your email and we will write up a special entry for you for your site that can link to this one too. How about that?