Cute Picture, Bad Idea. Photo: SXC

If you really want to get your child a live pet and are ready to take on most of its care if your child can’t handle the responsibility after all, please consider waiting to choose the real puppy until the holidays are over. Instead, why not give your child a virtual or robotic pet for Christmas, along with a coupon redeemable for the real pet in a few months?

A few great Christmas pets to consider are:

• Fur Real Friends – These little critters really look life like.
• Furbies – If you want to see if your child is ready for the responsibility of a pet, try having him or her raise and train one of these retro favorites.
• Webkinz – They can hug the stuffed version while caring for the virtual version of their pets online.

Do you have a favorite virtual or robotic pet?

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Make Your Christmas Puppy a Virtual One

Each of my daughters has a few Webkinz and they are often spotted on the computer playing Balloon Darts, the Wheel of Wow or decorating a room for the online persona of their pets. They ooh and ahh over the exclusive items and wheel and deal with each other for prizes and such. While I am sure this is just a passing phase, it is a cute one and I have to hand it to Ganz for bringing the stuffed animals to life in a unique Web 2.0 world.

PlayLibrary has more pictures of cute Webkinz, too, as her kids are just as crazy about them as mine are.

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Webkinz Invasion