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Old 05-09-2012, 11:43 AM   #1
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Default How do I clean an old stuffed animal?

DS has DH's stuffed dog from his childhood.

It has been peed on. Can I submerge it without destroying it entirely? It's not terribly beat up, just... old.
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Old 05-09-2012, 12:00 PM   #2
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Default Re: How do I clean an old stuffed animal?

I have put stuffed animals on gentle/delicate cycle with some Woolite. And then air dried and tossed into the dryer for a few minutes to "fluff."

BUT, those were animals/lovies from the last decade.

Hmm.

What about surface scrubbing and a sprayer at the kitchen sink?
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Default Re: How do I clean an old stuffed animal?

A friend occasionally dry-cleaned stuffed animals.
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Default Re: How do I clean an old stuffed animal?

Depends on the filling. If it's fluff, I put it in a pillowcase and knot the end. Then I was it on gentle and let it spin for a while. If it's filled with something else, I'd try a surface cleaning.

I washed my PotBelly bear from the early 80s that way. I use a pillow case to protect their eyes a little bit.
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Default Re: How do I clean an old stuffed animal?

I had a stuffed animal from when I was a baby (86) and it was just washed in the washer like normal
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Default Re: How do I clean an old stuffed animal?

Washer and dryer here too.
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Default Re: How do I clean an old stuffed animal?

We've succesfully washed DH's bear that's only a few months younger than him in the washing machine, in a pillow case, on gentle.
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I wash them all the time. So far everyone has survived.
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Washer in cold on gentlest cycle

Dryer on warm/fluff

I have washed my childhood bear numerous times with no problems
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