A Lafayette 10-year-old donated stuffed animals to the fire department, helping first responders comfort children during ...

Everyone knows the spectacle of the Hershey Bears Teddy Bear Toss game, but where do all those stuffed animals end up? In the ...

Long before the advent of plastics, stuffed toys were a standard gift at Christmas. The first widely recognized stuffed ...

You’ve probably heard of weighted blankets (or even weighted hoodies, robes and eye masks). But there’s a new craze: weighted stuffed animals — and they’re exploding in popularity on social media ...

A hospital stay can be a traumatic experience for a young child. Children's Hospital Colorado uses new stuffed animals to ease that anxiety. But the hospital is running out of stuffies, and they need ...

Do you still sleep with a stuffed animal? It's a simple yes-or-no question, but one that might make any self-respecting adult a little nervous if the answer is "yes." Yet when BuzzFeed writer Grace ...

The stuffed animal and children's book sets are all inspired by real life rescue dogs Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously ...

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If you’re a fan of figure skating, or even if you just happened to catch it every now and then on TV, you might have noticed fans throwing gifts, especially stuffed animals, on the ice when a skater ...