A Tale of Two Tummies

Dear readers, Benji Beddy Bear here to tell you all about the trauma recently suffered by my dear friend Randolph. Late one evening, when, being a night shift worker, he was about to start work, he went down with a bad stomach. We were all very worried: was it indigestion, food poisoning or even appendicitis?

In fact it was none of these. What you have to know is that Randolph is a hot water bottle and his tummy is made of rubber and holds water - or it did! He was about to take his usual enthusiastic flying leap into a cold bed, in order to do his magic warming, when he started to drip.

On closer investigation we discovered a terminal problem ...


Just look at the size of that tear. Randolph was naturally very upset, so I did my best to comfort him.

Fortunately, while this was terminal for Randolph's tummy, it wasn't the end of Randolph. We take disaster recovery very seriously within Bears Unlimited and regularly update and test our plans. We had, thankfully, planned for just such a catastrophe as Randolph's tummy failing, and therefore had a replacement to hand. This time a white one, rather than a red one.


Within minutes Randolph was fitted with the donor organ and was ready to work again. This left us with just one small dilemma, and you see Randolph puzzling over the solution in the last picture. We had to decide what to do with the donor's external shell. As you can see it had quite a funky freisian print. Randolph thought it might make quite a nice sleeping bag, although it would need to be for a smaller sized bear than him.

It is lovely to see my friend with a spring in his hoof again.

Lots of love

Benji xxx