Is Your Kid Safe Playing With Zhu Zhu Pets Hamster Toys?
With any new toy that comes onto the market these days, safety is an obvious concern. In the US, we are lucky in this regard, as the numerous toy safety laws and regulations at least provide parents with some toy safety standards, which is unfortunately not the case yet in so many other countries. However, if you are thinking about buying a Zhu Zhu Pets hamsters (pronounced as Zoo Zoo Pets hamsters or Zu Zu Pets hamsters) toy or any of the numerous hamster accessories that are available out there, then it is always worth highlighting both manufacturer official safety guidelines as well as those parent safety concerns that have already been voiced. This article provides a quick overview of some of the more important and frequent concerns and recommendations, so that you can make an informed decision as to whether Zhu Zhu Pets hamster toys are safe for your children before you buy.
These interactive hamster pet toys are actually manufactured by a company called Cepia who recommend that both their hamster toys and hamster accessories are only suitable for children of 4 years and older. I’m sure that they would love to not have any age limit on them and in doing so enlarge their market customer base, but laws are laws and regulations are regulations and Cepia makes the necessary warning in order to both comply and perhaps even as an internal agreement.
Parents may or may not realize, but these kids hamster toys scurry around on battery powered revolving wheels. As interactive electronic toys, the outer hamster structure obviously shields the necessary electronics inside. Once again, regulations and Cepia’s own internal quality standards ensure that the design is at a standard to ensure maximum safety.
The toy hamster itself moves from place to place on a set of wheels that when on a new set of batteries and placed in open space in explore mode, can actually move pretty fast. This is part of the fun of these hamster toys for kids that love to chase them around, but it does mean that the wheels do rotate at the required fast speed. Common sense should dictate here, which would be the same for any toy that you purchase for your child that has external moving parts, don’t let your child stick their fingers in or let anything get caught in the spinning wheels, such as hair. A parent has commented that her daughter’s skin was pinched and her hair got caught up, but the incident seems to be isolated incident and not voiced as a common issue. Can this happen? I’m sure it can. You child could also get their hair caught in their normal bicycle wheel, but unless the bicycle had been designed with the spinning wheel at head height, I don’t think it would be a warranted reason to ban it. There is always risk, it is up to you to assess how great a risk it is in making your decision to buy or not.
Another complaint that one parent had, was that when her son dropped his new pet hamster toy in a bucket of water, it started to act funnily and now it doesn’t work. I don’t think that there is much that needs to be said about this point, except perhaps to make sure that your kids realize that hamsters are land creatures and not designed for swimming.
Every parent is different and it would be shrugging your responsibility to allow others to determine what is safe and not safe for your children to play with. On the whole, from the huge number of Zhu Zhu Pets hamsters sold, there are few comments to suggest that they have specific safety issues or are sub standard in any way.
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