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Early Petz games released with plush tie-in toys.

The releases of these toys is not well-documented. Information on releases presented on this page is largely speculative.

KittyCatz and PuppyDogz
In 1996, Trendmasters released a line of interactive plush toys known as KittyCatz and PuppyDogz based on the in-game animals. These retailed for $19.99.

Each plush is about 10 inches tall and comes with hard plastic eyes, movable fabric eyelids, and a faux leather collar fitted with an electronic sensor encased in plastic. Included with each plush were plastic and electronic accessories: a brush, a dish of food and water, and either a toy mouse for Catz or a bone for Dogz. Each object interacted with sensors in the plush animal's collar, causing it to play different sounds such as munching on the bone or purring when being brushed.

The plush animal's collars read either Catz or Dogz on the plastic sensor and around the faux leather collar. In pictures of packaging for the toys, the Cat collars have pink rims and blue bands. In the final product, these were changed to blue to match the Dogz.

Petz II KittyCatz and PuppyDogz
A smaller variation of these plush toys was released by Trendmasters in 1998. Official information on what countries these toys released in is currently unavailable, but it is likely they never saw a North American release. They are much rarer than the original varieties but occasionally show up on auction websites.

Photos and auction listings that have popped up online of plush toys in this scale include a black Dog, likely a Scottie, and a gray Cat that is likely a Russian Blue. What is likely a Maine Coon variety has been spotted for sale on a Norwegian auction website. A possible Tabby variety has been seen on a Swedish auction website.

Unlike the original releases, these were released in smaller, open-faced cardboard cases with a single accessory; for Catz it was a bottle of milk. The collars on these smaller varieties display the full "KittyCatz" and "PuppyDogz" names with a blue banner that reads "Friends Forever Always Together" beneath them on the plastic electronic sensor. The KittyCatz and PuppyDogz names and the blue banner, but not the banner text, repeat on the faux leather collar. The faux leather collar and plastic trim on the electronic sensor is pink on Catz and blue on Dogz.

Fuzzy Beanz
Fuzzy Beanz, released in 1998 by Trendmasters, were smaller beanbag plush toys that may have been released with copies of the the Petz II CD-ROMs.