Cute, but hard to use

I purchased this for my daughter to practice counting money (purchased some plastic currency to go along with it). She likes the dog, and enjoys putting money in it. However, it is impossibly hard to get the coins back out of this to let her do it again. The only way to get it open is by removing the head (something I recommend doing out of eye-sight of the child) and it requires a significant amount of effort and quite a bit of luck. Getting the head back on is also a chore. So much so that we've stopped encouraging putting the currency into this and just using it as a play dog toy. It keeps some points for being a cute toy, loses most points for not being good at what it's supposed to be.

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