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The maker of Zhu Zhu Pets is producing its own scientific tests to fight against a San-Francisco-based consumer group's findings that its popular hamster toy contains unsafe amounts of a toxic metal.

You always figured that a rodent who drives his own car would be able to withstand the recession, right? As retailers ramp up for the all-important holiday shopping season, at least the toy stores ...

When Lori Fowlkes first saw robotic Zhu Zhu Pets toy hamsters in September, she remembers her kids started jumping up and down and saying, "Please! Please! Can we buy them?" Seeing a fully stocked ...

ST. LOUIS — A consumer group contends one of the holiday season’s must-have toys is unsafe. But the maker of the robotic Zhu Zhu Pets hamsters defended its product today against a study by San ...

Parents across the country have lined up to buy this year’s hot toy, Zhu Zhu Pets. But do the children even care? Continuing in the tradition of Tickle Me Elmo and Cabbage Patch Kids, the Zhu Zhu ...

Move aside Barbie, drop that Wii. The hottest toy this Christmas is an interactive hamster that drives a car and squeaks happily when petted on the nose — and doesn’t break the bank for parents. These ...

Out of the 1980s grew the Cabbage Patch Kids craze. The ’90s gave us Tickle Me Elmo. As this decade ends, parents stand outside stores hunting tiny mechanical hamsters called Zhu Zhu Pets. Don’t hate ...

I could feel the desperation of the sender all the way through the ether. “I promised my nephew a Zhu Zhu hamster for Christmas,” she e-mailed her 60 closest friends. “It’s some robotic rat-type thing ...

A consumer group in California says one of the hottest-selling toys this holiday season may not be safe for youngsters, reports CBS Station KPIX correspondent Kiet Do. When it debuted, the Zhu Zhu pet ...

LOS ANGELES — Toy-safety regulators said Monday that Zhu Zhu Pets — one of the holiday season’s hottest toy crazes — do not violate federal safety standards after all. A spokesman for the U.S.

Two-year-old Emily Chong grinned and snuggled up to her father’s knees as she clutched what has been billed the year’s hottest new toy. Zhu Zhu, a furry robotic hamster, has been breathlessly promoted ...