Jeanette's Wild World of Nature: Cute Animals

[Jeanette X]

This thread is going to be pictures of cute animals. Can't go wrong with that.

http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/animals/images/ermine.jpg

An Ermine. One of my favorite animals. Cute as a button, but fully capable of ripping your face off.

http://www.chevroncars.com/wocc/lrn/trib/gifs/hedgehog.jpg

http://www2.tltc.ttu.edu/thomas/classPet/1999/image/hedgehog.jpg

Hedgehogs.

http://www.hoglezoo.org/images/cub.jpg

Polar bear cub.

http://www.wildamerica.com/pages/images/24.JPG

Wolf pup meets white-tailed fawn.

http://www.wildamerica.com/pages/images/52.JPG

Baby skunks.

http://enquirer.com/editions/2001/07/05/raccoon.jpg

Baby raccoon.

[Les Waste]

http://wso.williams.edu/~rfoxwell/starwars/pics/Ewoks.gif

[AChimp]

http://www.teacherwebshelf.com/classroompets/membershowcase/mousetails/day2-babies1.jpg

[Cap'n Crunch]

That's not cute! EDITED OUT FROM MY CAT PICTURE, SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.

[noob3]

http://www.geocities.com/not_noobe/dead.txt

[Captain Robo]

Shit. Ewoks. Lol.

[Jeanette X]

I thought everyone liked cute things. >:
You have angered the ermine. She will now rip your face off.

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:wBwYt8T5fHIC:users.capu.net/~kwelch/pp/pics

Edit: More cute things-Shrews
http://members.vienna.at/shrew/RELICTUS.GIF
The endangered Buena Vista Lake Shrew

http://members.vienna.at/shrew/koenig-etruscus.gif
Pygmy White-Toothed Shrew.

http://members.vienna.at/shrew/Notiosorex-Schwalbe33.gif http://members.vienna.at/shrew/Notiosorex-Schwalbe15.gif
Arizona Desert Shrew

[executioneer]

shrews aren't cute :/

-willie

[sadie]

GOOD EVENING. AND WELCOME TO LEECH-O-RAMA.

[Jeanette X]

Well, I thought the shrews were cute. :/
http://www.defiant.net/gallery/cat08.jpg

Squirrel and cat

http://www.wtv-zone.com/cal555/bb/hrpp.jpg

Baby Harp Seal. (I'm sure I am setting myself up for seal-clubbing jokes...:rolleyes)

http://www.rockies.com/canadian/images/pika.jpg

A Pika, which is a relative of the rabbit.

[James]

Someone has to say it:

http://www.rockies.com/canadian/images/pika.jpg

Pika chew! :(

[n00bward]

Awww, damn you beat me to that one......
Shrews may or may not be cute, but these are!
http://www.chevroncars.com/wocc/lrn/trib/gifs/hedgehog.jpg

[Jixby Phillips]

This is my favorite thread on the board right now :(

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[kellychaos]

Does PETA only save cute animals? I've never seen insects on their posters. There's nobody out there to protect the rights of the cockroach and other like animals. I'm writing "Fear Factor" to list my grievances in reference to their animal cruelty. They'll read it on the show and I'll be famous for being the first person to stand up for the rights of the ugly animals. >:

[Jeanette X]

Does PETA only save cute animals?

I think they use cute ones in their publicity campaigns because it draws the most sympathy.
Are chickens considered cute? They save those...

http://www.sfzoo.org/generated/animals/58/prarie_dog1.jpg

Baby Prarie Dogs

http://www.whh.org/photos/photographs/1hour2.jpg

Mother hedgehog, with young babies.

http://www.whh.org/photos/photographs/2week2.jpg

Sleeping orphan baby hedgehog. Rescuers gave it a stuffed toy as a surrogate.

http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/JUNGLECORNER/tenrec03.jpg

Tenrec. Looks like a hedgehog, but is actually in a separate family.

[Daphne]

I love tenrecs, I want to go to Madagascar and see them walking around all silly.

This thread is great :(

[kellychaos]

The Mature Hedgehog :wank :)

http://magicmovie.8m.com/jeremy.jpg

[Jeanette X]

:puke That is NOT CUTE! >:

[The Retro Kat]

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:L_kY3BlW8QoC:www.thisdrenchedsky.org/fantasia/falcore1.jpg

[pickleninja]

http://www.collusion.org/images/roadkill.jpg

[executioneer]

I'm just glad there's no bunnies in this thread, I HATE bunnies >:

Adult ones anyways :/

-willie

[Captain Robo]

Does PETA only save cute animals? I've never seen insects on their posters. There's nobody out there to protect the rights of the cockroach and other like animals. I'm writing "Fear Factor" to list my grievances in reference to their animal cruelty. They'll read it on the show and I'll be famous for being the first person to stand up for the rights of the ugly animals. >:

If a puppy, a human baby, and a baby chimp were all drowning, PETA would save the puppy.

[Jeanette X]

http://www.milforddailynews.com/images/july/news/brewer07152002.jpg
Bintrurong
http://www.epub.org.br/cm/n15/curiosidades/panda-baby2.jpg
http://monod.biomath.nyu.edu/~jingh/album/sandiego/panda16w.jpg
Baby giant panda.
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:DJ4UZft-e4UC:www.camdenschools.org/red_panda_close_up.jpg
The red panda, a smaller relative of the giant panda.

[executioneer]

http://www.kaytee.com/images/rotate/chinchilla.jpg :/

-willie

[ziggytrix]

http://www.spinnwebe.com/cat/images/deadcat.jpg

i don't know what is was originally, but i want to post this image all over the internet. you'd think with bandwidth being the major complaint he wouldn't have gone with a 70k image.... :squigly :red

[Spectre X]

What are yous doin' with me food dere boy?! >:

[Daphne]

Actually kelly, PETA also campaigns against fear factor. And no, they don't only just save cute animals. They are also out to help bugs and other 'non-cute' animals.

[noob3]

when i was like 10 i wanted a sugarglider

[Daphne]

They are very cute, but really hard to have as pets. If they get loose you're in trouble. They are super fast.

[kellychaos]

Actually kelly, PETA also campaigns against fear factor. And no, they don't only just save cute animals. They are also out to help bugs and other 'non-cute' animals.

I have to question the intelligence of an organization whose support base is inspired by cute animals. Not that I'm against the saving of animals but if they had a platform that was more scientifically based rather than "Oh, what a cute panda. Let's not kill him." Besides, they seem a little extreme in some cases. :(

[Daphne]

Kelly, do you think the masses want to save endangered worms? The majority could care less about "non-cute" animals, so PETA uses the cute ones to get attention. So does WSPA and the WWF (no not the wrestlers...)

Like I said, they encourage people to boycott silk because of the way the worms are treated.

Anyway of course they are extreme, most passionate people are.


For the record I don't agree with a lot of what PETA does.

Now let's get back to Jeanette talking about cute animals :)

[Jeanette X]

While I do not totally agree with PETA, they do raise awareness about certain issues that I think most of us would agree on.
Like this:
http://www.banlegholdtraps.com/pics/ermine.jpg
Erimine in a leghold trap. Animal rights activists are trying to get those traps banned.
Poor lil ermine. :( Damn the fur industry.
Anyway, on to happier things.
http://www.houstonzoo.org/assets/mammals/giant_anteater/baby/anteater2_sm.jpg
Baby giant anteater.
http://www.greenapple.com/~jorp/amzanim/fossa.jpg
A fossa. It is in the same family as the bintruong.
http://www.phoenixexotics.org/amimalimages/KinkajouCornelius.jpg
This is a baby kinkajou. It is in the same family as the raccoon.

[Daphne]

http://www.primates.com/primate/aye-aye.jpg

Aye Aye. They are like funky monkies.

http://www.seaworld.org/AnimalBytes/images/epauletteshark.gif
Epaulette Shark.

Sharks are my favorite animal, and I think these ones are really pretty.

http://kaweahoaks.com/html/praying_mantis_green01.jpg
Praying Mantis

they are just really fucking cool. I saw one by my work last year, which is weird cause it's downtown and nowhere near a park.

http://www.poshrat.co.uk/rodent/mara01.jpg
Baby Mara

Mara's are the biggest rodents in the world. (R.O.U.S :lol >: :nerdjoke)

[Jeanette X]

Nuh uh. The capybara is the biggest rodent in the world.

And praying mantises are creepy! 8-)

[FS]

Argh. The baby anteater just made me melt right in my seat. :melt

[Daphne]

fuck, I always mix up capybaras and maras.

http://www.rzu2u.com/jpg/capybara.jpg

they look so much alike!

[Jeanette X]

Argh. The baby anteater just made me melt right in my seat. :melt

Awww...you wike widdle baby anteaters? :)
http://www.vet.upenn.edu/comm/publications/bellwether/54/images/shirley-anteater.jpg
Newborn giant anteater. I think its the same one as above.

http://www.peaceday.org/antyndon3.jpg

Baby lesser anteater.

http://i.timeinc.net/TFK/media/slideshow/020122_gp_brazil/slide6.jpg

Baby giant anteater, riding on mother's tail.

[FS]

STOP IT :(

I want a summer job in a zoo.

The bearded guy compensated for the sugary cuddliness of it all, luckily.

[James]

Before you decide you want to work in a zoo, you may want to read this stories:

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1377
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1389
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1426

[Jeanette X]

The ostrich guy is damm lucky the ostrich didn't maul him. They can kill you.
I've eaten ostrich too. Its delicious. :yum

By the way, do you know if all these things happened at the Saint Louis zoo, or were these several zoos?

[FS]

Ostrich is indeed very tasty. :yum Anyway, I bet even if an unqualified person like me could temp at a zoo, they'd have me shovelling elephant shit on my first day or something. Bastards.

[James]

By the way, do you know if all these things happened at the Saint Louis zoo, or were these several zoos?

I'm pretty sure all the stories were from one guy. So wherever he works/worked is wherethey took place. I don't recall if it says in the stories.

[Vibecrewangel]

http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/2519329.jpg
Echidna

http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/2519325.jpg
Baby Ecidna

http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/2519324.jpg
Billby

http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/2519330.jpg
Serval (I SO WANT ONE)

http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/2519332.jpg
Thorny Devil

[Daphne]

I knew someone who owned a serval . but I never got to meet him :( (the serval not the guy).

[tenno]

why was the racoon drinking the ermine!!!!

Sugargliders are so cute but it doesnt change the fact that the male one my friend has evidently HUMPED HIS MATE TO DEATH!.

Seriously, she died FROM OVER FIEND SEX ACTIVITIES!!!!

[Jeanette X]

why was the racoon drinking the ermine!!!!

:confused

[n00bward]

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-5/140612/sonic1.gif
Hedgehog

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-5/140612/knuckles.gif
Echidna
:)

[FeuerAffe]

My old room mate had a sugarglider...it looked cute in the pictures, but didn't sound too fun overall. :(

We've got the chance to acquire a hedgehog...a friend has to sell his, tank and all. Anybody know whether or not it'd be a good idea to adopt a hedgehog?

[Daphne]

personally I'd love one, but I've heard they can stink. I had a ferret though, and he stunk bad and it didn't bother me.

I suggest you read up on the care and feeding of hedgehogs before you do, to see what you're getting into. (goes for any pet really)

[kellychaos]

Awwwwwwwwwww!! :tear :)

http://animals.timduru.org/ids/albums/Animals/dog/dobdoit3-Dogs-mating.jpg

[n00bward]

:faint

[Wiffles]

Wiffles luuuurrrrrves ^_^

[Jeanette X]

I thought I was done with this thread...but that was before I found this...
http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~keith/photos/ferret.jpg

[Jeanette X]

http://www.ananova.com/images/news/monkey_puppyREUTERS351x500.jpg

Monkey adopts puppy.

http://www.ananova.com/images/web/23864.jpg

Cat adopts mouse.

http://www.dogsinthenews.com/issues/0205/pictures/chihuahuakitties1.jpg

Dog adopts kittens.

[FS]

My dog often likes to sleep on her side, and just after we got our two cats, they would sometimes try to drink from the dog's nipples.

[Jixby Phillips]

AWWWWWWWWW

[pyroguy97]

I thought I was done with this thread...but that was before I found this...
http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~keith/photos/ferret.jpg



How cute :puke

[kellychaos]

Sure. It's all cute until somebody gets an eye poked out! >:


... or savagely mangled and devoured by a wild animal. :/

[Jeanette X]

Sure. It's all cute until somebody gets an eye poked out! >:


... or savagely mangled and devoured by a wild animal. :/

Domestic ferrets are not wild animals.

[kellychaos]

My friend had a white domesticated rat he bought from a pet store. It was one of his favorite pets he ever had. Add newborn son. He was letting it run around loose in the same room as his son was in one day (I know he probably shouldn't have) and the rat bit the a little chunk of the tip of his tongue off. He heard him his son crying and came into the room. He saw the rat in his son's face, picked it off and was so upset he threw it against the wall. He really didn't mean to but he was upset, you know. He felt bad about it as it was a pet that had served him well to that point so he took it to the vet. The vet said that he probably smelled the milk on the baby's breath and that he saw things like that happen before. Long story short, he got rid of the rat. So much for domesticated animals.

[Jeanette X]

Well you shouldn't put a pet rat in a room with a child too young to deal with it properly, especially not a newborn! Same goes for dogs and cats. No pets around a baby. Period.

So were they able to fix the kids tongue or what?

[FS]

I read a sad news story some time ago about a kid who'd been home alone with his dog, and had gotten attacked. The dog was put down, but afterwards they discovered dozens of staples in one of his ears. Junior's work.

I hate kids >:

[Jeanette X]

I read a sad news story some time ago about a kid who'd been home alone with his dog, and had gotten attacked. The dog was put down, but afterwards they discovered dozens of staples in one of his ears. Junior's work.

I hate kids >:

Well at least the dog got his revenge on the kid. :/

[kellychaos]

Well you shouldn't put a pet rat in a room with a child too young to deal with it properly, especially not a newborn! Same goes for dogs and cats. No pets around a baby. Period.

So were they able to fix the kids tongue or what?

Thing was that it was a trusted, mild pet who never did anything like that before. The boy was in a crid raised above the floor approx 1.5 to 2 feet while the rat was (supposed to be) on the floor. How can you foresee that kind of thing happening? Also, how are you going to not have a cat around your kids if he's already a household pet? Cats can climb and get into basically wherever they want in a house. You'd have to get rid of it NOT to have it around your kids.
Ref Jake's tongue: He's about 8 years old now and still has a little bit of a cleft on the end of his tongue. The surgery just required a tetanus shot and a couple of stiches if I remember correctly.

[executioneer]

someone's never lived in a house with doors in it before :lol

-willie

[Jeanette X]

http://www.bio.davidson.edu/Courses/anphys/2000/Boehm/otter35.jpg

Otter being cleaned and groomed after oil spill.

[glowbelly]

http://zenner.us/tigers/baby.gif

[Rongi]

:melt

[pickleninja]

http://www.ananova.com/images/news/monkey_puppyREUTERS351x500.jpg

Monkey adopts puppy.

http://www.ananova.com/images/web/23864.jpg

Cat adopts mouse.

http://www.dogsinthenews.com/issues/0205/pictures/chihuahuakitties1.jpg

Dog adopts kittens.

Cat adopts mouse...as a snack :o

Here are some animals I like:

http://www3.sympatico.ca/pchdf/hippo_01.jpg
Hippopotamus :o
http://www.worldwildlife.org/expeditions/images/elephant.jpg
Elephant :/