NEW TOY MAY MAKE FURBALLS AS POPULAR AS FURBIES

NEW TOY MAY MAKE FURBALLS AS POPULAR AS FURBIES

NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- A new children's toy may make cat furballs as popular as Furbies. The toy is an orange and yellow cat named "Harry Hairball" and it has the bad habit of upchucking furballs and other items right onto the carpet. Kids who reach inside Harry's mouth can pull out furballs, a ball of yarn, a fish bone, a parakeet, a goldfish and a mouse. The $20 pussycat doll is made by a New York company called Rumpus Toys, and while the stomach-churning toy sounds gross, it's not the most repulsive product in the line. That honor goes to the "Gus Gutz" doll, whose intestines, kidneys, stomach and other vital organs can be pulled out of his mouth. The company says the toys "..encourage children to learn and develop their own creativity."

CONTACT: Larry Schwarz (Rumpus president); Arrange with Amy Kunen; NYC; (212) 463-9869