Are Zhu Zhu Pets Really Dangerous?

I can honestly say sometime 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 accessories
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 however 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 bequeathed nothing but joy to my girls. (Even the youngest grandson likes them.)

Now along comes this "newly conventional Toy Protection Company" this says, I made a terrible mistake in buying these hamsters that they are hazardous to my children.

Good Golly miss molly, I am an idiot. One of my daughters whose #2 mission in life is to dispute 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 detrimental .

If I really try she would buy the London Bridge from me I think.

I received a call the other day 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 villains to relinquish them when my daughter got on the phone telling me what she had heard and done with the toys.

Yes I must of bungled as a father because I should of educated her as a youngster not to listen to everything in the negative!

Ok, Ok I got curious and went online to search for the truth.

I read the opening 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 serious stuff.

This is why we want to listen to these safety companies.

Now the owner of the Zhu Zhu pets company came out immediately and said whoa partner! I fabricated these, I had them tested to all values the government made me do and guess what? My Zhu Zhu pets are ok and your not!.

Not the exact phraseology of course just summarizing.

Now here's the best part. Uncle Sam at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission comes out and states that the toy does not disobey 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 but manufactures 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 they were bad in the first place. Oh they took back their evaluation
(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 education right?

There is really no excuse for anyone to cry wolf in this day and age. I for one depend on these consumer advocate groups to ensure that something is indeed safe. When a company like this does not do it's due diligence and try to complete the required tests completely then I will never trust them again. I will have to rely on the standard UAL and Consumer Reports information.

Main thing the Zhu Zhu Pets Hamsters and accessories are not dangerous.
Unless of course cuteness in a toy is detrimental to our kids.

Article Source: http://www.109b.com/artdash

Regarding common sence as a lost art Daniel McDowell shares a passion to express disbelief at really stupid things. Follow the adventures of the Zhu Zhu saga at: www.cutezhuzhu.com

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