Philippine toy maker David Tan flooded with orders from grief pet owners people who want to commemorate their dogs, cats, hamsters and rabbits with stuffed toys or ‘stuffed toys’.
Tan and a team of 20 employees use customer-submitted photos to create lifelike replicas of their deceased pet using aerosolized synthetic fur to reproduce color and markings. Traces of a deceased pet. animal.
Tan, owner of the Pampanga Teddy Bear Factory, says the process is different from stuffed animals, which preserve carcasses.
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“It removes that ‘ick’ factor. This is really one hundred percent, really a stuffed toy,” he said.
Each stuffed animal costs about 3,500 pesos ($65), which the 38-year-old man dog lover Jaja Lazarte says that was the price to pay for her memory of Shih Tzu.
Lazarte said: “Although his ashes are here and his memories are here, it would be much better to see something that really resembles him.
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