Towel Animal life span?

[CBear]

On our second or third day at PoP Century last May, my 13 DD and I were thrilled to come back to our room and see a few towel animals in the window. We oohed and ahhed - we inspected each of them, we tried to figure out how each was created, and we lined them up for their first (and last) photo shoot.

But then, we weren't sure what to do. Were we supposed to preserve them and all their cuteness? Were we supposed to leave them in the window, on display for all other guests? Were we supposed to - gasp! - dismantle and untangle their little limbs to make them mere face cloths once again? We just didn't know, so we left them right where we found them.

We never got any new animals after that, and we worried that perhaps we had done the wrong thing. Not that I'm complaining - we were grateful to get them just once. (We left a tip every day we were there, but I think I left a bigger tip the day after the towel tikes were born)

So, what do you do with your new little fluffy buddies?

 

[curiouser]

Good question... I didn't know what to do with them either. I really wanted to take the chick. The chick and I bonded. He even jumped in my suitcase, but I took him back out, due to the envious and yet, loathing, stares of his towel animal kin (they knew he was the greatest, they were just jealous).

I miss that little duck...

 

[DisneyMomx7]

I called mousekeeping and asked what to do with our first ever towel animals., The supervisor said that they were a gift and that we were supposed to take them home as a memory. So we did and I put them in my bathrooms.

 

[safetymom]

I talked with a manager and was told they are to admire and to leave them behind.

 

[jann1033]

unfortunately mine only lasted till i moved him off the bed and dropped him.he was an elephant and his poor little ears and trunk fell off and i couldn'[t get them to look the same( then resembled a sick earless headless cow maybe???) so he had an very shortened life expentancy due to his profound deformities.



tried to post a pic of the poor little guy before the accident...just to horrenous afterwards....it comes up just the red x inabox like 90% of the pix on here do for me urggg

 

[stinkerbelle]

didja feed the poor critters at least?
I mean - posing in your hotel window is a hard job!

be careful...you don't want PETTA on your bumm...(People for the ethical treatement of towel animals)

 

[minnie61650]

I talked with a manager and was told they are to admire and to leave them behind.

I agree with safteymom. You need to leave them behind,but you can take lots of pictures.
That's what we did when we recieved towel animals on our cruises.
Linda

 

[rcraw45425]

Took a pic and left behind.

 

[mainewmn]

If we get some on our next trip can I attempt to pay a “adoption” fee for the little critter in lieu of leaving him back?

 

[aubriee]

When I was at POP in May I received six towel animals. On my next to the last day I ran into the mousekeeper outside my door as I was leaving, pointed to one of the animals on my windowsill, and asked her if I could possibly buy one to take home to my GD. She gave me a puzzled look, tried to give me another animal off her cart, said she was glad I liked them, and then said they were all a gift to take home. She said mousekeeping expected us to take them. I said 'Are you sure it's allright?. She again laughed and said that's why she made them, so take them, and she hoped my GD enjoyed them.

 

[skiwee1]

The mousekeeping supervisor and the manager of the Poly both told me that I could keep them. There was no way I could keep all of them as we had lifesize gators and huge wildebeests. We did keep the monkey hanging from a lei. DD has it hanging in her room.

 

[tekmom]

We kept ours from AKL last month. We weren't going to, but were told by mousekeeping that they were to keep.

 

[Laurajean1014]

10 minutes to an hour in my room!

 

[CaipiraBob]

We had kept our towel animals from the Yacht Club for about 2 months in a place where the children could always see them. But one day we had a protein spill and "fluffy & pal" bought it literally on the spot.

 

[black562]

From what I've read, it seems alot of people at POP are getting towel animals. I'm going two weeks from today and I hope I get some since its our honeymoon.