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Pound Pur-r-ries!

February 10, 2023, is the day that I learned that sad 80s toy, Pound Puppies, is still made and sold today. You know, when piece of trash humans return their adopted dogs to the shelter for idiotic reasons, they should only be allowed to adopt a Pound Puppy toy until the end of their days. Actually, I take that back; even a Pound Puppy toy doesn’t deserve that! But I digress; Pound Puppies weren’t the only toys that brought the sads in the 1980s. There were also sad Pound P-ur-r-ries!

After Sarah McLachlan’s ASPCA Commercial: The Toy (aka Pound Puppies) became a hit for its maker Tonka in 1984, they quickly followed it up with something for pussy lovers. In 1985, Tonka introduced Pound Pur-r-ries. Here’s how Ghost of the Doll explains the hyphen-loving Pound Pur-r-ries:

“Each kitten comes in a carrier, with neck ribbon, care sheet and mail-in ownership certificate offer.”

Pound Pur-r-ries were introduced in 1985 and had distinctive eyes. When the Newborns and Furries were added to the line their eyes were altered and their cheeks become rounder to give them a friendlier, more cartoon-like face. There were lots of colours produced.

And here’s a commercial where littles girls save sad-eyed Pound Pur-r-ries from cat plushie jail:

The thing about Pound Puppies and Pound Pur-r-ries is that even when you brought their asses home, they still looked like they had a serious case of the sads! The Pound Pur-r-ries were probably sad because their name had two too many hyphens in it. But it’s better than Pound Pussies, which you know some Tonka exec pitched before realizing that’s the name of a totally different kind of toy for a totally different demographic.

Pic: Ghost of the Doll