1-in-4 Grown Men Travel With a Stuffed Animal
Teddy Bears, Stuffed Dogs and Other Animals Are Packed in Businessmen's Suitcases
Travelodge said that 25 percent of men reported they take their teddy bear away with them when going away on business. The stuffed animal supposedly reminds them of home and -- some say -- helps fill a cuddle-void left by distant partners.
[Vs its being the only partner they've got..] 
"I made sure my husband was okay with it before we got married," [42-year-old Tracie Luck] said. "I had to sort of break the news: I sleep with a stuffed animal. This is what I do and I hope there won't be a problem."
Interesting. I got an otter a few years ago from some good friends of mine. Wears a sweater in a color I call "Guantanamo Bay Orange". He guards the bedroom.
Good ol' gitmo orange.
I never stopped sleeping with plushies. 
My plush collections probably rival some of the people here.. >.>;
I bet I could give you a run for your money. I still have most of my plushies from when I was a kid.
Is that a challenge? >:3
I probably don't have as much (though I like to think I do), but I love showing off my collections anyway.
I only have about six; there are two dinosaurs(Raptor and T-rex), germanshepard, cammel,and two wolves.
But my step sister, she had about five large boxes full of stuffed animals when she moved out on her own.
Plushies/stuffed animals rock
I have the two largest lions made by Hansa. The biggest is about 80% life-size.
They are surrogates, mainly, to tide me over until I become super-rich and have real lions!
Whom I will then genetically alter into a race of super lion-men to conquere the world! With ME as supreme leader! BWAH HA HA HA!! 
until the foxy resistance comes in and defeats you in a very dramatic and spectacular manner
Sorry but the kangaroo mafia will not allow you to do that 
I think it's a sign of my age that this made me think, almost immediately, of cows and lemurs.
Is that why groups of 'roos are called 'mobs'? "Hey Joey, come'ere! Let's go for a little ride..." Bad joke, no supper for me...
Life size plushes thats awesome!! I used to know this oldy store that had life size plushes of all types of animals, but the shut down. =(
... Lion-men, conquor, supreme leader???? very interesting -hides behind a fence from lion-men- dont hurt me, I give in i surrender
Seeing as my own room at home is filled with stuffed animals... they're just cute 'n' cuddly. ^_^
Although I don't sleep with my plushies, I have a fair collection of them; Mostly canines and equines, although a few mephits have joined the crowd lately. As for travelling with them, There's a certain Palomino pony (Sadira), and a striped skunk (Maurice) that are always belted into the back of the Rex wherever I go 
i am planning on making a life size nurse shark plushie, but if i do that now, i get killed by moms, my room is full plushies already (lifesize tiger, lots of lions, a few lemurs, two foxes, and 2 bears, a dragon, a legomen plushie and nearly all ice age characters)
so a 8 foot shark would not fit.
i sleep with most of my plushies (i sleep on the half of my bed not covered by plushies) i always lie under a pile of em.
A life-size tiger? Hmm, is it a Hansa? They're the only ones I know of who make a truly life-size one. 190 cm-long body. Quite enormous.
Speaking of tigers:
http://comics.com/off_the_mark/2010-09-16/
Mmmmmmm? What do the other 3 out of the 4 travel with ?? :D :nuzzle:
Brand-name accessories?
I've got a stuffed monkey permanently attached to the back seet headrest in my car. He stares out of the back window everywhere I go. He rode to AC2010 and Otakon 2010.
I've got a bunch of 5 or 6 inch tall animals I was trying to make a web comic with a few years ago...
Maybe I'll start that up again. This time on my Livejournal... 
When I get a car, the whole back window will be full of plushies! I have three trash bags in the shed of plushies. Why are they in the shed you ask? Because I have no room in my room! My parents forced me to give away a lot of them to a local toy drop, but it was for a good cause... I will miss them... But I have two bears, a fox, three white tigers, and a lizard in my room now. They have names, too! the two bears are Chocolate and Vanilla, the tigers are Blizzard, Siberia, and Akamaru and the lizard is Monty! =D I love my plushies!
Kori, I can tell you're just being enthusiastic, but we like our furry brothers and sisters to be safe. You need that rear window to see other cars on the road. To be safe, only put one small plushie there. That will show your interest to anyone who wants to know and it won't obstruct your vision and endanger you.
(Also, laws vary wildly from state to state: it might actually be against the law to put something there. Check that out first!)
I agree with you, there shouldn't be THAT many plushies. But I also had a few of them I wasn't willing to depart with. I had a stuffed animal that was a monkey, but the dog that my dad got when he was drunk(seriously, he shops online when he's drunk enough!). That dog tore up my monkey!!! X@. I had that monkey for like 5 years and his name was Chunky and I was really sad when I found the body... After that I stopped caring for stuffed animals for a long period and gave the rest of mine to my neice in the depression. If I were to give them away, I would've wanted to given them to charity at least(but I was Miles from a charity and no idea where to find one). Now I'm back in the mood for stuffed animals, but I'm too young for a job as far as I know. So I can keep everything a secret.
I was forced to get rid of all mine besides a giant bear ^.^ and a creepy taz that I won >.<
I'll admit to a dab of my mate's cologne when I go away with out him on my penguin. it makes me feel like he's there with me.
I've got a 13 inch tall raccoon doll which I took to Anthrocon a couple years ago. I put it in one carryon piece of luggage and found when I got
to Pitt. Airport to fly back, as I waited in line for my stuff to be x-rayed, one of the TSA officers started smiling and showed what was on the screen
to his co-workers, who got a kick out of it. I just smiled and said nothing. Yes, I am indeed one of those "furries" you saw on the news, sir!
Wouldn't it be transparent to X-rays? How could they tell what it was?
I'd think that several of them would be carrying plushies because of their children/daughters.
My boyfriend takes them with him too, and he's not a furry. But he's named all of ours, and even takes one when he has something important to go to - like a job interview, or something sad like a funeral. They stay in the car but it's the thought that counts here.
He also got me a little plush monkey to keep in my purse for when I get sad 
I've always slept with a plushie. A few years ago, I bought my husband a large wolf plushie. He had never slept with one before. Now, he's with it every night. I think it's cute.