Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Learning Puppy

Comment: Fisher Price has always been very cryptic about revealing compounds in their toys...perhaps it's because they contain toxic compounds. Go to [...] to see independent testing of this item. It is rated as dangerous due to levels of bromine, mercury, antimony. I have called FP on several occasions to find out if their toys contain BPA, phthalates or fire retardants and they have never given me a straight forward answer....just that all their toys comply with US regulation. Unfortunately, US does not regulate toxic compounds like Europe and Japan. Plus, all their toys seem to be made in China where quality control and chemical testing is terrible...hence all the recalls related to lead.

Comment: NB: I don't have the version where the collar lights up but mine has red shirt with letters A-B-C repeated as a pattern.
My daughter got this for Christmas 2007, she was 10th months. She loves the songs/music and it helped her learn her alphabet and few nursery rhymes (she learnt the tune way before the letters but she still sings with her "doggy"). There is a button to switch off, low volume and high volume so little cause for irritation. The knobs in the nose and ear went after a year - understand the ear because sometimes she held it by the ear, but don't know why the nose quit. She has a lot of hugs and cuddles for him still. Actually now putting in 2nd set of batteries - and I've left it on numerous times.
I know some parents complained that the songs are interrupted by the slightest touch and that's true but I believe it has taught her cause and effect as well as patience: if one of her favourites are playing and she bounces it and it stops or changes she figured out how to get it back and she doesn't touch it until she's enjoyed her song; she knows how to get it to play again too.

Comment: my 16 months' old boy loves it. great boy. I gave four stars, just because the ear botton doesnot work after one month. Overall, I recommend this boy.

Comment: my 1 yr old son loves to play with it. The only annoying thing ... it makes noises even if you don't touch it, just pass next to it...

Comment: Got this puppy for my 24 mo. old, and have been nothing but frustrated with it. It has only one real button to push - an obvious big red plastic heart on the chest. The other "buttons" are ultra-sensitive pads on the hands, feet, ear, and in the tummy that say things like "hand", "foot", etc. Most of them also trigger silly songs, which wouldn't be too bad if it could ever get all the way through a song. But the ultra-sensitive nature of the other buttons means that any bump or movement (keep in mind 2 year old here) triggers a button, often without you realizing what got pushed. When a button gets triggerd it makes the song stop and the puppy exclaim something random like "You're my friend!" "That tickles" "Green Hand". Or you could be giving the puppy a hug, and it will be saying "Foot", "Yellow Foot", or you're carrying it down the hall and it's saying "Let's sing and play games". It's chaotic, random, noisy, confusing. And the best part is, the whole thing won't work at all if it is turned off. The on/off function is one part of the 3-part pad on the left foot. Especially with that big red "push me" plastic heart in the middle of the chest, you think my little guy can figure out that he's supposed to push the bottom portion of the left foot to make this thing turn back on, especially when he usually can't figure out that something accidentaly got pushed that turned it off? He gets bored of it quickly every time he picks it up. Very dissapointing for a supposedly "learning" toy.