Little Live Scruff-a-Luvs plush rescue

*Update- Day 2 of brushing with a regular brush and also manipulating and squishing the cotton stuffing around has made it look more like a dog. Toddler is still in love with it. Bumped up to 3 stars. Look out parents of younger children, this toy is going to take what little energy you have and laugh on your face* Got this for my daughter(3yrs old) for Xmas, in part because it was on sale and partly because I like the idea of pet rescue/animal help that goes with this product focused at teaching tiny humans. Or well, I thought it would be a learning thing...hahaha. So we open the packaging to find a mangled ball of stuck together fur. She wasn’t interested, of course, so I said ‘hey, let’s give it a bath and make it feel better’..she loved that part. I was a little creeped out at how it unfolded into an animal but, again, I get the idea behind it because reduced pets can look a little scary but be awesome after some care. So we pressed on. We scrubbed and washed this thing for what seemed an eternity in toddler terms, but still couldn’t get all of whatever it was that made the fur stick together out completely. The toddler was losing interest so we stopped and started the drying process. 20 minutes is a lie. It took way more than 20 minutes. It took a hair dryer. It took leaving it on the heating vent. It took 3 hours. Whatever, it dried. Finally figured out it was the dog. My daughter was over the moon. Yay..doggy! Then the brushing started. The toddler lost interest within the first 30 seconds. So that meant I got to do the brushing. The toy brush is less than ideal, but the amount of fuzz that was layering my leggings as I brushed it convinced me to not use a real hair brush on this thing. So I continued to use the toy brush. Omg so much brushing. My arms hurt. The fuzz flew. I discovered spots where we had not washed it properly and the fur would not be untangled. I put it under the sink again. I dried it again I brushed it some more. All the while my daughter is long gone, playing with her other toys that were considerably less labor intensive. Finally, the thing is dry and brushed. My daughter comes back and is ready to put its collar and it’s bow on. The collar was a Snap for a 3 yr old. The bow...dear lord..that bow. I could barely get the thing open and bent my nail back trying to open it. But the collar was on, bow was in, and ...toddler LOVES it! That’s why this gets 2 stars. But I can’t imagine how anything about this toy is worth $20(current list price on amazon). Im posting a picture...it’s supposed to be a dog. It literally looks like my daughter is carrying around a large pink hair ball. It’s pretty cheap and warped. This is after a monumental effort on my part to brush this thing out. So it’s fun if you lower your expectations.