#stuffed moose

Moose was well hugged, like most of my patients. Made of french terry, her fabric had worn to almost see through in addition to holes:

The plan was to keep her insides the same (no spa) but to recover all of her brown in new fabric (her antlers and feet were both in good shape).

So the search began for French terry in a good color and here is where her stay got more complicated. I thought we had a good option, we ordered it, and it wasn't traditional french terry at all!

So we searched some more and placed another order and this time, it was a much better match that Moose's person approved:

It looks different here, but it was actually very close to her inseam shades, and matched her original texture.

Here she is mid surgery, when I got to her muzzle. It had been repaired by her person many years ago and was a bit... misshapen. The question was, did her person want to keep the unique shape or straighten it out a bit since she was having surgery anyway:

The decision was made to plump it back up. Here are her chubbiness approval pics, fully recovered, but without eyes (she hadn't had any on arrival):

A bit of research showed her original eyes were very similar to her nostrils, so they got added in and she was ready to fly home:

Whiskey the moose 🫎 sure does love climbing trees I thrifted moose and he didn't have a tag unfortunately so I'm unsure of his Brand.

Blanca’s person wrote to me in June:

My stuffed moose is named Blanca. She's my best friend in the whole wide world. I've had her since i was born and she's now become special not only to me but my whole family, you could say shes loved by many. We're both turning 20 this coming July 20th and i wanted to do something special for her, it was always a thought my mother had for years. Taking Blanca to a stuffed animal hospital but I never thought she REALLY needed it. When i first got her she eas a fluffy BRIGHT pink moose. Yes bright pink. And she had a little bow. Now she's completely grey with patches of missing fur. Which never bothered me. I understood that she's really old and she wasn't gonna be her pinky self forever. But because shes become so fragile im scared to harm her anymore than she is! (believe it or not) i still drag her around places and she's fairly large. I've learned now not to take her around as much as she developed a huge gap in her neck. She had a long neck that i lay on while i sleep that i hope you could save. She's a sassy moode who needs that long extended neck. She also needs stuffing that had been lost over the years. Besides her neck everything about her is still perfect. I've read what you do to people's loved stuffed friends and I'm happy to see others love their stuffed friends as much as i do.

After some back and forth, it was decided that we would give Blanca spa and fully line her.  That would treat her neck, and her weakened skin, but not change her look too much.  Here she is on arrival in the hospital (she’s almost 3 feet tall!):

She had a nice spa:

You can see she’s getting pink.

Then she was fully lined before her heart went in.  Here you can see the heart going in and a bit of her lining:

Then, after a bit more back and forth for chubbiness, she could hold her head high and was ready to fly home:

As you can see, she really was pink!  For the most part.  Her forehead is cream, and her feet are white.  Everywhere that was pink is lined in pink (you can see the lining through the bald areas on her chest now in the photo above).  Everywhere white is lined in white. 

Blanca flew home to Southern California and her person wrote: