Club Petz Lucy The Dog

Our first lucy the dog arrived and was opened to much excitement only to find the voice activation did not work. A swift email to Amazon and a new one on the doorstep the very next day. Fantastic customer service.Now we have a working Lucy the fun begins. As many say it's not 100% reliable and needs a room not fully of children's screams but somewhat hard as my two daughters love it. Even when she gets it wrong it's just hilarious. It will be interesting to see how long it hold attention but is definitely the favourite toy and you can see why.Great idea, we'll built, yet cute and cuddly and a wide range of voices commands.I'd definitely recommend

I hate Lucy. My daughter loves her. If I have to hear 'lucy....sit' or that incessant barking again I may scream.Easy to set up, I agree with the other reviews that she takes a little time to respond on occasion - not helped by my five year olds sudden lisp appearance when speaking to the dog.Batteries last FOREVER and you will quite happily strangle the dog by the time she's gone off three times in the night because she's being cuddled.Well worth the cost (in the eyes of a 5 year old anyway)

I bought this after being begged by my daughter. Lucy is quite cute and when you have the patience to set her up and she decides to work, she is great fun!! However as you need to be very precise with your commands it's a hit or miss whether she works or not. Also sometimes she misbehaves and decides not to listen, she will do a command once and ask in the same way again and she just won't do it. As a result Lucy has been sitting in a corner unplayed with for a few months. It's such a shame as she cost £40 and if she worked all the time she would be a much loved toy but my 5 year just doesn't have the patience for her. It also gets very irritating as parent hearing "Lucy, Lucy, Lucy" said over and over again trying to get her to respond. Awesome when it works.

Lucy was delivered faster than expected, well packaged and ready to be given to my 6 year old daughter for her Christmas present from Santa. However, the seeming nightmare began and endured for several days. She did not appear to do as commanded. I tried in vain to get some advice from the well known large toy shops, but no help was forth coming from any one. Today 29th December, giving that my daughter did not want to part with Lucy as a (seeming faulty) toy, I finally found out that all that we needed to do was to follow the very last command on the sheet of commands provided; that is to call the puppy's name, wait for it to bark once then to give her one of the many commands possible. The commands must be exactly as stated on the 'Functions of Lucy' sheet or she will get confused. Good luck to all Lucy lovers, mine is over the moon.

This is such a cute toy! She is beautifully made and looks adorable. But the real joy comes from watching my daughter play and interact with Lucy. There were squeals of delight when Lucy first responded to my little girls' voice. It has taken a few goes for my daughter (age 4) to get the hang of it - you have to say Lucy's name, wait for her to bark and then give the instruction - but she has learnt how to do this now. Also, good value for money - cheaper than some of the other Club Petz range but the play quality is just as good.

My 4yr old girl loves this and it's everything the product description says it is.I can only assume that the 1 star reviews where people state that 'Lucy' doesn't respond to voice commands, have either received a faulty product OR they're somehow misunderstanding how it works. I didn't bother to 're-train' this to respond to a different name, so that may have something to do with it, but 'Lucy' responds to all the included commands, virtually all of the time. 'She' has problems when there's a lot of background noise and when my little girl doesn't quite say the words in the right way. For example, asking 'Lucy' to sit, needs the word "sit" to be said in a short, sharp way for it to be recognised. The same is true of some of the other commands; asking 'Lucy' to lie down, seems to work better if you say "Lay down". Ultimately, the voice recognition isn't perfect but for a toy at this price point, I think it's pretty good.The dog itself is nice and fury, with long floppy ears, a big black nose and puppy-dog eyes. She has about 15 commands you can issue; the way this works is you say the dog's name first (it defaults to 'Lucy' but you can change it), wait for 'Lucy' to bark once, then you issue the command. This was a Christmas gift so I can't really vouch for its longevity but so far, I'm very pleased with it (and so is my daughter).

It broke two days after Christmas, daughter aged 9 was so upset and were told to replace it by another one. It was not in stock on that time so need to wait. Eventually, she prefered not to have a replacement and just return it as it would not be the same Lucy one, the one she saw at first.These things happen, even if the toy is the same, there is always different. We went to other stores to see more Lucys and then is when she understood she could not have the same one anymore. While crying, she asked for a different toy.It is a pitty when you see a child so happy with something that actually breaks in a second! Other thing to notice is that Lucy was very disobedient; my daughter ordered some acts and she did different ones, we took it as something funny. It is not however.Overall, I would not recommend this toy in any way, poor quality and poor voice commands understanding. Also, as it is not a real puppy, children will lose their attention easily. Even though it were one, children are children and change emotions very fast too, do not buy/adopt one if you are not going to be responsible for it all the time. Children will only play with them for short periods of time so do not rely on them being the main guardians.