Scamps My Playful Pup

**Scamps My Playful Pup** is an electronic toy dog added to the FurReal Friends line in 2005. The toy's main attractive feature was its ability to understand a set of vocal commands in order to perform "tricks." Each toy came with a toy rope, a toy bone, and an adoption certificate.

## Features

Scamps has four sensors located throughout its body: a touch sensor on each ear as well as on the toy's back, and a mouth sensor to detect the presence of the toy bone or rope. Touching either of the touch sensors causes the toy to respond with appropriate movements and sounds. If the plastic bone is given to Scamps without using any voice commands, the toy will lie down and perform a set of eating motions accompanied by sounds. If the toy bone is taken away while the toy is in this mode, it makes a growling sound.

### Voice Commands

Most notable of the toy's features is its ability to respond to voice commands.

#### **Basic Commands**

The following commands only need to be spoken once:

* **"Sit:"** causes the toy to sit up.
* **"Down:"** causes the toy to lie down.
* **"Speak:"** causes the toy to make a barking noise.
* **"Good Dog:"** causes the toy to wag its tail and make a barking noise.
* **"Wanna Treat?:"** causes the toy to sit up and perform a begging motion. The user may then place the plastic bone in the toy's mouth, which will cause it to lie down and make chewing noises. If the plastic bone is not given to the toy within a few seconds, it will make a whining sound.
* **"Hey Scamps/Hey Puppy:"** causes the toy to look around and wag its tail.
* **"Drop It:"** this command should be spoken after placing the rope toy in Scamps' mouth. Causes Scamps to either drop the toy or guard it.

#### **Training Commands**

One of the toy's features is its ability to be "trained" to perform a specific trick. Training simply involves repeating a command three times. The first time the command is spoken the toy will perform a very halfhearted/small version of the trick. Each time the command is repeated the toy's action will become slightly more enthusiastic, with the trick being performed fully and completely by the third repetition. The training commands are as follows:

* **"Gimme Paw/Shake:"** causes the toy to raise its paw in order to shake the user's hand.
* **"Wave:"** causes the toy to wave its paw in the air.
* **"Howl:** causes the toy to make a howling noise.
* **"Sit Up and Beg:"** causes the toy to sit up and make a begging motion.

#### **Games**

In addition to the aforementioned commands, Scamps is able to play two voice-activated "games" with the user.

##### **Let's Count Game**

The Let's Count game is a series of basic voice-activated commands that cause the pet to make barking noises. To initiate the game, the user must speak the command **"Let's Count,"** after which any of the following three commands could be used:

* **"Count One:"** causes the toy to bark once.
* **"Count Two:"** causes the toy to bark twice.
* **"Count Three:"** causes the toy to bark three times.

##### **Adding Game**

The Adding Game is a voice-activated game in which the user speaks a series of commands to cause the toy to bark a corresponding number of times. It is different from the Let's Count game in that toy's barks can be added to each other. To initiate the game, the user must speak the command **"Adding Game,"** after which they may speak as many of the following commands in a row as they wish, for a maximum of 255 barks.

* **"One:"** causes the toy to bark once.
* **"Plus One:"** adds an additional bark.
* **"Plus Two:"** adds two additional barks.
* **"Plus Three:"** Adds three additional barks.

## Variants

There are six known variants of Scamps My Playful Pup.

* Beagle (Deluxe)
* Border Collie/Black and white
* Dalmatian
* Golden Retriever
* Gray poodle
* Samoyed/White

## Deluxe Version

A deluxe beagle variant was released which included Scamps' normal accessories in addition to a bonus bed and bowl.

## Gallery

Border Collie/Black and white variant.Golden variant.Samoyed/White variant.Dalmatian variant.Gray poodle variant.Beagle variant.Deluxe beagle with bonus bed and bowl.Scamps in box.Promotional image showing three Scamps variants.
## References

1. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20051124044107/http://www.hasbro.com/pl/page.viewproduct/product\_id.16642/dn/furreal/default.cfm
2. ↑ https://archive.org/details/furreal-friends-scamps-my-playful-pup-74565