On her birthday (February 23rd), Ayla got a kangaroo stuffie. We actually started buying toys for her from IKEA because they are baby safe and therefore don’t have parts that can fall off (plastic eyes, nose, etc) and they are usually a lot cheaper than dog toys. She quickly fell in love with “kangaroo” and knew his name within a few days. Unfortunately, I noticed last week that one of his legs was starting to come off because she always whips him around while she’s playing and holds on to one of his limbs.

But today, the poor little guy really got into trouble when I noticed Ayla was eating something…and I’d given her nothing to eat. It was in fact the insides of the poor little kangaroo. He probably never even saw it coming.

Here you can see both the leg injury and the flank that has been torn open. Looks more like T-Rex got hold of him or a lion instead of a Newf. 🙂 I have actually read, though, that they tend to be very aggressive with stuffies and many of them actually shred them…so maybe the others were just lucky and we are now entering into the destruction phase since she’s a “big girl” now.

I will be trying to repair him but it seems that she actually tore part of his “skin” off and ate it. This means he will be permanently disfigured but at least he should still be able to enjoy the rest of his life and have a puppy that loves him dearly. I did consider throwing him away already but Ayla seemed so upset that I first took it away and then put it out of her reach that I figure that is a sign to try to prolong this guy’s very short life. I’ll be sure to update his status after he’s out of surgery – which could be a while since I’m not sure where a needle and thread might be at this point lol. Not exactly something I use very often around here…