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Back and Celebrating with a Baby Armadillo

04 Monday Jul 2016

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animal, animals, armadillo, author, Canada Day, cute, dog, dogs, Fourth of July, fun, Independence Day, life, News, pet, pets, squee, Stephanie Beavers, writer

Wow. Okay, so I didn’t intend to take that long of a break. Sorry, folks. But all that wedding stuff just piled up on me and I needed the break. But I’m back! Time to get back to the grindstone with my edits, blogging, and tweeting.

To celebrate that, Canada Day, and the 4th of July, here is Rollie, an adorable baby armadillo playing with a toy:

maple leaf flag

Happy Canada Day!

This dog wishes you a happy fourth of july

Happy Independence Day!

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Cute Contest 2: Tail Noms Versus Baby Foxes

30 Monday May 2016

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adorable, animals, author, babies, baby, baby animals, cat, cats, cute, entertainment, fox, foxes, fun, humor, kit, kits, kitten, kittens, life, lol, nature, pet, pets, snow leopard, squee, wildlife, writer

Round 2: Who wins the cute crown this time?
Today we have tail-nomming snow leopards versus baby foxes!

big cat

fox kits

adorable leopard kitten

squee so cute

predator relaxing playing

fox kit snow play time

fun snow leopard tail nomming

hide and seek peekaboo fox

ah eat mah tail cuz its tasty

napping baby animal

Mom's tail tastes good

Are leaves food?

I realize the snow leopards might be at a disadvantage, simply because they’re not all babies… but lookit them fluffy tails!

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Cute Contest

02 Monday May 2016

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Smoothie versus PuiPui

Who wins the cute crown? Smoothie, The World’s Most Photogenic Cat, or PuiPui, The World’s Most Stylish Bunny? Better cast your vote below this cascade of overwhelming cuteness!

Smoothie the cat

Smoothie

bunny

PuiPui

kitty

Smoothie

rabbit

PuiPui

cat

Smoothie

bunbun

PuiPui and friend

Smoothie

royal rabbit

PuiPui

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A Goldfish Is Better Than You

25 Monday Apr 2016

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analytics, animal, animals, attention, attention span, author, culture, fish, goldfish, multitasking, pet, pets, psychology, Science, science news, social analytics, society, Stephanie Beavers, writer

At least it’s likely, in terms of attention span, at least. You see, goldfish have an average attention span of nine seconds. According to a study by Microsoft, the average human attention span had dropped to eight.

Interestingly, in 2002, the average attention span was twelve seconds; technological shifts in the last decade or so are the most likely cause for the drop to eight seconds, as recorded in 2013. As I can’t imagine this has improved in the last few years (I suspect the reverse is true), if you have an average attention span or less, then a goldfish is better than you at paying attention to stuff.

Have you ever seen a goldfish? That’s kind of sad.

Source: Wiki Media Commons

In actuality, it’s not quite as bad as it sounds. For although humans have seen a decline in the ability to focus on tasks for longer periods of time, we have improved our ability to multitask. Here are the pertinent bits:

those who use social media heavily had more “intermittent bursts of high attention.” The study says: “They’re better at identifying what they want/don’t want to engage with and need less to process and commit things to memory.”

Just because we may be allocating our attention differently as a function of the technologies we may be using, it doesn’t mean that the way our attention actually can function has changed.

Seriously though, check out the full IFLS article. Or is your attention span too short? Your loss, there’s some cool stuff in there.

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Dog Days

14 Thursday Apr 2016

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In response to some of the unseasonably warm weather we’ve been having, here are some hot/sleepy/randomly passed out dogs, compliments of TheTango.Net.
tired corgi

asleep husky puppies

labrador puppy sleeping

faceplant dog

dreaming of flying dog

uncomfortably asleep doggie

tongue loll doggy

Dead? dog

puppy loves his food

passed out dog

puppy asleep on armrest

face in shoe

stretched asleep

Puppy thinks he's people sitting like that

Puppy is strapped in and ready to go...asleep

Yoga dog?

That can't be comfortable

Not appreciating the view, too busy sleeping

Pet my belly until I'm asleep. You don't need to work. Really.

Sleeping dog

Do you have a favorite, readers? I like “Yoga Dog” with his feet in the air.

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The Hedgehog Cafe

11 Monday Apr 2016

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Today, in Adorable News, I bring you: The Hedgehog Cafe.

pat this  lil hedgepig

Photo Credit: Wiki Commons


Now, we all know, thanks to the internet, that something this odd (though adorable) could only be the brainchild of Japan! Thanks, Japan. We owe you one for this. In fact, we may just refrain from making any remarks about the next truly bizarre thing you come up with. (Maybe.)

Anyways, the Harry Cafe can be found in the Roppongi District of Tokyo.

The name “Harry” stems from a wordplay on the Japanese word for hedgehog.

For $9-11, you can go pet and play with hedgehogs (presumably while drinking tea? It is a cafe after all… Then again, maybe not.)

Mizuki Murata, who works at the cafe, told Reuters, “We wanted to show people the charm of hedgehogs, which give the impression of being hard to handle. We wanted to get rid of that image by letting people touch them.”

She added, “The cutest thing about hedgehogs is getting them to finally open up and show you their face.”

And what cute faces!
cute hedgehog
P.S. Did you know that a group of hedgehogs is called an array or a prickle? A prickle of hedgehogs!

So what do you think, readers? Would you like to pet a hedgehog, or are they too prickly for you?

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Feline Foot Fetishes and Stolen Underwear

21 Monday Mar 2016

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This is my cat.

Loki the cat

Loki the cat.

She’s…a little strange. I mean, most animals, like people, have their quirks. My cat has a foot fetish.

This is mild:

Loki loves her shoes

Loki loves her shoes.

This is typical:

OH YEAH FEET

OH YEAH FEET

In fact, she rushes to do this pretty much the moment someone walks in the door. She will sniff feet before the shoes are off, then stuff her head into the first foot-related opening. And after she’s fully examined the shoes, she’s after everyone’s feet. Sniff, sniff, gotta know where ya’ll have been!

Especially men’s feet. I have no idea why. Needless to say, she can be a bit of a conversation-starter. And a source of endless familial heckling.

On the other hand, I suppose it’s not so bad. She could be like this cat, and have a socks and underwear fetish:

To quote kitty's owners: "Now it's getting silly. This is Brigit's haul from the last two months."

To quote kitty’s owners: “Now it’s getting silly. This is Brigit’s haul from the last two months.”

Cheezburger reports:
“Brigit, a cat in New Zealand, sneaks out every night and brings back socks and underwear that she’s stolen from the neighborhood. Her humans have tried to find the owners of the stolen goods, but can’t seem to figure out where Brigit is stealing from. Or why she seems to really love a particular brand of men’s underwear.”

So really, I don’t have it so bad.

What about you, dear readers? Do your pets have any bizarre quirks? Please share!

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How Would You Like To Have A Penguin For A Best Friend?

10 Thursday Mar 2016

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‘Cause this guy has one. Check it out:

This penguin swims thousands of miles every year to visit the Brazilian man who saved his life. Joao Pereira de Souza found this Magellanic penguin crippled with oil-slicked feathers and close to death near his home. Joao cleaned him up and nursed him back to health. Now the penguin, dubbed JinJing, has adopted him.

“I love the penguin like it’s my own child and I believe the penguin loves me,” de Souza told Globo TV. “No one else is allowed to touch him. He pecks them if they do. He lays on my lap, lets me give him showers, allows me to feed him sardines and to pick him up.”

Picture credit: TV Globo

Picture credit: TV Globo

Although it’s not common, penguins do sometimes end up in Brazil after getting sent a little off course by currents. But I’m pretty sure this is the only one trying to replace dogs as man’s best friend.

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Gimo, The Cat With The Biggest Eyes Ever

29 Monday Feb 2016

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This weekend, my fiance and I attempted to do our wedding invitations. Turns out, printers and software are actually elaborate torture devices invented by demons infiltrating our society. After spending HOURS AND HOURS on them, we gave up, and we’re finishing them tonight. As such, you don’t get a real blog tonight. Instead, you get to meet Gimo, the cat with the biggest eyes ever.

great big kitty eyes

cute cat

So squee, so adorable!

Little kitten loaf

It’s funny, in some of the shots, he looks a little concerned, but when he closes his eyes, he’s definitely a happy kitty!

happy sleepy kitty

These were my favorites, but there are more adorable pics of this kitty at the source article linked above!

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Love Among Kitties

15 Monday Feb 2016

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Thanks to Bored Panda for 14+ Cats Ready For Valentine’s Day.

#1 Love Hurts
Romeo and Juliet kitties

#2 Perfect Date
Movie date kitty couple

#3 These cats were cuddling in the shape of a heart
Heart cuddling cats

#4 Lovely Couple
Heart tails

#5 Yeah, nice… Who invented knocking on doors?
cat-couples-valentines-day-16__605

#6 Cat Love
Hanging with kitties in love

#7 Wife won’t let her husband leave for the business trip
Actually a cat attack

#8 Two mommy cats co-mothering the 8 kittens that they had at the same time together
So many kittens

#9 Symmetrical kitten love
cute kitten heart

#10 Dinner for two, please
A romantic dinner for cats

#11 Could you take a picture of us, ma’am?
cats posing

#12 Hello, dear, how was your day?
cat greeting

#13 A secret date
dangling kitty

#14 Sunday movies and chill
cuddling snuggling

I hope you all had a lovely Valentine’s day (or at least enjoyed these kitties as much as I did)!

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