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Battery Powered Zhu Zhu Hamster for Christmas

November 3rd, 2009

Can you believe it is less than two months before Christmas 2009?  Most people can hardly believe that a battery-powered hamster has become the Tickle Me Elmo and Cabbage Patch Kid of 2009 shopping season.

After you try them, see them or play with them it won’t take you long to understand why craze.  The Zhu Zhu Pets are fuzzy, battery-operated hamsters that run on wheels and are are suppose to sell for less than $10 in stores such as Walmart, Toys R Us and Target. However, the stores sell so quickly, and they can’t keep them in stock.  Buy Zhu Zhu Pets now!

Some stores are reporting that they get up to 50 calls a day looking for Zhu Zhu Pet Hamsters.  Most stores are have trouble keeping the hamsters on their shelves.  As a result of this dilemma most parents are turning to the aftermarket like Amazon and eBay in search of Zhu Zhu pets.  They seem to be the only place that has them in stock.   You can find great deals on complete sets or starter sets of Zhu Zhu pets.  Here’s and example, you could buy a three-hamster set with the playhouse, surfboard, exercise wheel, beds and covers for a little over $200 on eBay.

Even Walmart the king of inventory replacement is having trouble, they received five shipments of the pet Hamsters since late September. Wal-Mart sold them out the same day.  Toy R Us has attempted to ration or allocate customers to four pets per customer however they can’t keep them in stock, either.

What is even more amazing it that the Zhu Zhu pet hamsters are marketed for children ages 5-8, but teenagers have been buying them, too. It seems that the pets are really attracting a huge following as they appeal to even older kids, who are collecting them.

In order to get around easier than using little tiny legs, the Zhu Zhu Pets run around on wheels on their bellies and are powered by three AAA batteries which can be recharged with a solar charge which makes their carbon footprint almost neutral. Zhu Zhu Pet hamsters make a variety of cute cooing animal sounds and are the next best thing to buying real hamsters.

The Zhu Zhu pets come with a dozen different accessories. If a real hamster has it a Zhu Zhu Pet has it and more.   Zhu Zhu pets have carrying cases, a house with a kitchen and bath and Sony LCD flat screen, connecting tubes and an exercise ball and hamster wheel. They even have their own Zhu Zhu cars, real hamsters don’t have cars.  Buy Zhu Zhu Pets now!

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