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(Next on my wildplush agenda is a coyote in Antartica). I'll drop the wildplush veil a moment because I'd like to talk anout Britt. That's my name for her. I have no idea of her Douglas name, and suspect she doesn't have one. I can't find any evidence that she was generally released, though I've seen a Douglas Husky here on Da with some similarities (will add link when I find it). I bought her in the Douglas factory store in 2000. Three years earlier I bought her mirror-image, dark-grey cousin Pawla in the same place (Pawla faces right, Britt left. If they weren't two years apart and different colors I'd assume it was a deliberate 'bookend' effect. I have a photo of two largish raccoon plushes in the store which are also mirror-twins.)

I saw quite a few plush in the Douglas factory store that were unlike plush in their catalog. I assumed some were limited runs for particular client firms (e.g. the big border collie), or in this case perhaps prototypes or designs which didn't make it to retail. I'd love to know if anyone knows for sure, or has seen others like Britt (close-up photos of her and Pawla can be found early in my Plush gallery).

Anyhow this was a few weeks after I bought her. What was a plush from New Hampshire doing here? Road-trip, of course!

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(Next on my wildplush agenda is a coyote in Antartica). I'll drop the wildplush veil a moment because I'd like to talk anout Britt. That's my name for her. I have no idea of her Douglas name, and suspect she doesn't have one. I can't find any evidence that she was generally released, though I've seen a Douglas Husky here on Da with some similarities (will add link when I find it). I bought her in the Douglas factory store in 2000. Three years earlier I bought her mirror-image, dark-grey cousin Pawla in the same place (Pawla faces right, Britt left. If they weren't two years apart and different colors I'd assume it was a deliberate 'bookend' effect. I have a photo of two largish raccoon plushes in the store which are also mirror-twins.)

I saw quite a few plush in the Douglas factory store that were unlike plush in their catalog. I assumed some were limited runs for particular client firms (e.g. the big border collie), or in this case perhaps prototypes or designs which didn't make it to retail. I'd love to know if anyone knows for sure, or has seen others like Britt (close-up photos of her and Pawla can be found early in my Plush gallery).

Anyhow this was a few weeks after I bought her. What was a plush from New Hampshire doing here? Road-trip, of course!