The Alarms of the Zhu Zhu Pet Skeptics

I can honestly say sometimes I wonder why. Why does everyone have to try and ruin a good thing? Being a grandfather of five (three girls) and the father of two girls whenever I can shed some sort of fun into their lives it truly does please me.

I was able to purchase the Zhu Zhu pet hamsters Num Nums, Mr. Squiggles and Chunk along with a few of many trimmings that all the children “just have to have!”
Since all three granddaughters are at the magic age of 7 to 11. All I heard was Zhu Zhu this and Zhu Zhu I want that, for a long time. Ok let me get to the point here. They truly Love Them. I have bought just about every new apparatus , toy and Hanna whoever stuff ever marketed for these kids nevertheless nothing, and I mean nothing has endured out of the toy box like these cute things have. The Zhu Zhu funhouse, adventure ball, hamster mobile and garage, all of it has brought nothing but joy to my girls. (Even the littlest grandson likes them.)

Now along comes this “newly established Toy Protection Company” this says, I made a dreadful mistake in buying these hamsters that they are dangerous to my children. Good Golly miss molly, I am an idiot. One of my daughters whose #2 mission in life is to blindly follow any iota of not good for the environment that she possible can decided to pack away the Zhu Zhu pets that grandpa got them because they might be harmful . If I really put my mind to it she would buy the London Bridge from me I think. I received a call today from the 10 year old who was in tears after returning home from school and said somebody stole them out of her room. I was ready to rush over there with my shotgun to force the scoundrel to hand over them when my daughter got on the phone telling me what she had heard and done with the toys.

Yes I must of botched as a father because I should of trained her as a youngster not to listen to everything in the negative! Ok, Ok I got interested and went online to search for the truth.

I read the initial report from this firm say that these cute things had “unsafe levels of antimony” in them Do what ? Ok I looked up the word antimony and found out it was a heavy metal which can lead to cancer, lung and heart problems, and impacts on fertility. Wow humorless stuff. This is why we want to listen to these safeguard companies. Now the owner of the Zhu Zhu pets company came out immediately and said whoa partner! I invented these, I had them tested to all principles the government required me do and guess what? My Zhu Zhu pets are ok and your not!. Not the exact wording of course just summarizing.

Now here’s the best part. Uncle Sam at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission comes out and announces that the toy does not contravene a new federal toy safety standard that covers antimony and other heavy metals. Basically supporting the toy guy.

You have seen it in movies and read it in books, manufacturers guard their testing results like a father does for a his girl on her first date. They did not have to distribute these results but they did, with not only the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission but with this other company who said the toys were bad in the first place. Oh they took back their assessment (after learning they only did a partial testing) and now want us to believe they mad an honest mistake. Hello the guy who runs this company has a PHD he had to learn something with all that instruction right?

End result the Zhu Zhu Pets Hamsters and accessories are not dangerous. Don’t people have better things to worry about?