Stuffed animal repair: U-Chan the pink bunny

U-Chan the pink bunny

U-Chan’s person’s mom wrote:

“Hello I am interested in your services for repairing my daughter’s #1 love – her bunny.”

I’m sure many of you could empathize with that description of a stuffed animal! And the bunny was very well hugged indeed. Here is her diagnosis photo:

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There were many options for her repairs… just repairing holes, lining her, recovering all or part of her, to clean or not to clean. Her family decided to recover her pink areas (with the most balding and holes) in new fabric but keep her white areas original, just stitching any injuries there. And she would get a full spa to spruce her up as well.

Here she is in her bubble bath (patients always have a bath first, if they will get one at all, because then all fur is matched to clean and fluffed fur):

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Then it was time to choose fur. There were many shades of pink and lengths of fur. Her family was leaning toward a shorter furry fleece, closer in length to her white fur, but wasn’t sure. So I recovered one back panel in it and sent a photo for approval:

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Approved! surgery would proceed. 🙂

Here’s here heart being made and installed with a bit of her original stuffing:

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And here she is all better, feeling like a new rabbit, but still her original self. All her original pink was under new fur, and her original white was all visible:

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Looks great! wrote her family. So U-Chan flew home to Minnesota ready for more hugs and adventures. 🙂

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