teddy bear as stuffed toys?

@lady1993 (27221)
Philippines
December 26, 2012 7:30am CST
I was just wondering how the teddy bear even came to be so famous, when the real one is actually pretty scary and can even kill people. A friend just gave me one, and looking back, when i was kid, i always thought bears were as cute and cuddly as they toy. Wouldn't that be just promoting to kids to hug those huge and dangerous bears?
5 responses
celticeagle
@celticeagle (181912)
• Boise, Idaho
27 Dec 12
THe Teddy bear was first produced when Teddy Roosevelt was in office. Here is a link to the history on these: http://bigbee.tripod.com/history
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (181912)
• Boise, Idaho
27 Dec 12
I used to have three of the original ones but they got scorched in a fire. It is a cool story isn't it?
lady Di
@lady1993 (27221)
• Philippines
27 Dec 12
So what SuzieqMom said was correct..Thank you so much for the link to the story.. This was the first time i have ever heard of this.. How one little event became the origin of those teddy bears that we still have until now.
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (181912)
• Boise, Idaho
27 Dec 12
I used to have three of the original ones but they got scorched in a fire. It is a cool story isn't it? There a lot of stories about Teddy.
markyllor24
@markyllor24 (6)
• Philippines
26 Dec 12
bears are scary animal but , bear stuffed toy is really cute maybe that is the reason
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lady Di
@lady1993 (27221)
• Philippines
27 Dec 12
Yeah, they are rally cute when they become stuffed animals, there are even some tv shows about them-- " the care bears".. So it is really hard for kids to think of bears as dangerous animals, which they really are.
chiyochan
@chiyosan (30181)
• Philippines
26 Dec 12
Oh, that i think i have watched in some nat geo or discovery channel?? i think that before they made a stuffed animal... and it was named or called teddy bear because at the time it was theodore roosevelt's time and probably the one who developed this, gave this as a gift.
lady Di
@lady1993 (27221)
• Philippines
27 Dec 12
Oh, that is another story.. but still elated to Theodore Roosevelt.. I just know his name though and know that he was one of the Presidents of the United States of America, i did not know that he was that famous.
Suzieqmom
@Suzieqmom (2755)
• United States
26 Dec 12
I think the story goes that President Teddy Roosevelt was on a bear hunting trip and was having trouble finding any bear; his hunting pack of dogs finally came across an old, sick bear but Teddy refused to shoot him for sport. A comic strip artist drew a picture of this event, and, since President Roosevelt was very popular at the time, the idea of a stuffed bear (called a "teddy bear") was formed. And we still have them around today!
lady Di
@lady1993 (27221)
• Philippines
27 Dec 12
Oh, so that is why it is named "teddy". Thank you for the information.. it is quite sad to shoot a sick bear, what a nice president. But i bet if it wasn't sick at all, it would have been scary and might even attack them.
Shavkat
@Shavkat (140971)
• Philippines
26 Dec 12
As far as I know, started with the former President of USA. Teddy came from the name of Theodore Roosevelt. He became popular when the President made a lot of good deeds.
lady Di
@lady1993 (27221)
• Philippines
27 Dec 12
Oh, so he was a good president then, he must be.. since a famous toy was named after him.. I don't really know much about him since i live in a country far far away from America.