Ambulatory animal toy

An ambulatory animal toy, comprising a skeleton including a substantially horizontal torso having forward and rear ends defining forward and rear directions, mutually spaced apart front and hind legs attached to said torso, feet attached to said legs, means for providing friction between said feet and a walking surface, means for causing said torso to bend substantially horizontally while preventing said torso from bending substantially vertically when said skeleton is pulled, said means for causing said torso to bend substantially horizontally while preventing said torso from bending substantially vertically comprising at least one piece of material incorporated in said torso being inherently resilient in the horizontal direction and inherently inflexible in the vertical direction, and means for pivotally attaching said hind legs to said torso and allowing rotation thereof about an axis substantially perpendicular to said forward and rear directions between a repose position in which said hind legs extend substantially horizontally and a standing position in which said hind legs extend substantially vertically relative to the walking surface.