We study two toy models obtained after a slight modification of the nonlinearity of the usual doubly parabolic Keller-Segel system. For these toy models, both consisting of a system of two parabolic equations, we establish that for data which are, in a suitable sense, smaller than the diffusion parameter τ in the equation for the chemoattractant, we obtain global solutions, and for some data larger than τ , a finite time blowup. In this way, we check that our size condition for the global existence is sharp for large τ , up to a logarithmic factor.