--- title: Chinese Man Sues Ex-Girlfriend Over Expensive Stuffed Animal Obsession description: A man in China dumped his ex-girlfriend because she insisted he treat her stuffed animal as a person. 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Eventually, the boyfriend snapped, throwing Snoopy in anger after refusing to take it (him, apparently) into the bathroom. He broke up with his girlfriend, but then decided the “mental anguish” caused by Snoopy deserved compensation. This animal love triangle might be strange, but we’re guessing that the girlfriend had a not-so-secret case of [plushophilia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plushophilia), a fetish for stuffed animals that’s well-documented on the Internet. Plushophilia is different than [being a furry](http://furrymedia.livejournal.com/359233.html)—less than one percent of furries (anthropomorphized animal fetishists) are plushophiles, according to one study. 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