Hasbro FurReal Friends Cookie My Playful Pup

The whole Furreal collection is a favourite of mine, we have a few now and they are perfect for little ones with big imaginations as they actually move and make sounds that they can easily make believe that they have a pet. This particular toy is very cheeky (and playful!). Pat it on the head or back and she barks, wags her tail and moves her head! If you rub her cheek ever so slightly she turns towards you for you to do it some more. Cookie comes with a squeaky toy and if you make it squeak for her she will turn towards you. Give her her toy bone and she will make a right racket chewing it! The best is if you tell her how sweet she is she makes puppy yapping noises that are so cute. With voice recognition technology, I’ve found on a few occasions that if I talk while in my daughter’s bedroom, if it is turned on it will react (this has caused me to jump out of my skin on one particular occasions when I was alone in the house and singing away to myself!!). Cookie also comes with sensory recognition and so she will move her head to follow the bone if you put it in front of her. This is one thing to bear in mind if giving as a gift, make sure it is definitely turned off before you wrap it up or it will give away tell tale noises from inside the packaging as it reacts to your voice and movements (if you are close enough to it).

All in all a great toy that is perfect if you (or your husband!!) doesn’t want a real pet. It moves well and can be turned off (which is something you can’t do with a real dog!) but it doesn’t walk. There is a furreal dog called GoGo which walks that has an RRP of £59.99 and you can pick up on Amazon for slightly less than the RRP but we didn’t see this one until we had bought Cookie. I would say that Cookie is an excellent toy but for the same price if I had the choice again I would probably go for the GoGo as it has the same movements but also walks.