Philippine Toy Maker Creates Life-Like Pet Plushies For Grieving Owners

They use pictures despatched by clients to create life-like replicas of their deceased pets.

MANILA:

Philippines toy maker David Tan is flooded with orders from grieving pet homeowners who need to memorialise their canines, cats, hamsters and rabbits with stuffed toys or ‘plushies’.

Tan and a workforce of 20 staff use pictures despatched by clients to create life-like replicas of their deceased pets utilizing artificial fur that’s airbrushed to recreate colors and markings of the animals.

The method is totally different from taxidermy, which preserves the physique of the animal, mentioned Tan, proprietor of Pampanga Teddy Bear Manufacturing unit.

“It removes that ‘ick’ issue. That is really a hundred percent, genuinely a stuffed toy,” he mentioned.

Every plushie prices about 3,500 pesos (US$ 65), which 38-year-old canine lover Jaja Lazarte mentioned is a worth price paying for the reminiscence of her Shih Tzu.

“Though his ashes are right here, and his reminiscences are right here, it is so a lot better to see one thing that actually resembles him,” Lazarte mentioned.

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