It’s every stuffed toy’s dream: After long hours being stuffed and sewed, then long months waiting on a shelf, to finally be broughtΒ into your forever home and meet the dog who’ll be your best friend for life. All two minutes of it.
Sent in by Pixel!
Sigh. I feel bad for the shark. Is it because I didn’t have children? Maybe if you have children your maternal hormones get used up a bit?
I’m amending my comment with a reply? I realize I’m not as hormonally-challenged as I thought. It’s NTMTOM’s touching story about the hopes and dreams of stuffed toys that made me feel for the shark. Oh wait, maybe I am hormonally-challenged. Never mind.
Hey, we’ve had three “Toy Story” movies, with a fourth on the way, hammering the idea that toys derive their sense of worth by being played with.
I came here to comment that, while I hate to be a nuffer, and I didn’t vote this down, it seemed like a waste of a perfectly good stuffed toy. There are toys made specifically for dogs to tear up. But then (even before reading this remark) I realized that, probably, it was NTMTOM’s text that prepared me, before the video, to feel sorry for the shark. And I do. Pooooor stuffed shark. And, not to get too silly about it, poor people who designed and made the shark. I realize they got paid, but they also probably aspired to have someone use their creation as a lovey, not disembowel it (if it had bowels, and the dog was probably disappointed it didn’t).
So I guess this all makes me an over-thinking sentimental sap. I can live with that.
My first thought was also to feel sorry for the shark! Humans anthropomorphize quit a bit–and the shark was sorta cute, so you have the “Bambi Effect” working a little there, too. I see Pixel doesn’t destroy ALL his stuffed animals, though! (Was gonna insert shark emoji, but there isn’t one! 2 whales an d a dolphin, but no shark! Discrimination!)
Sign the petition!
https://www.change.org/p/unicode-consortium-the-time-has-come-sharks-deserve-their-own-emoji
?
We need a wombat one, too – and a beaver, a quokka,and some theater-oriented ones, and what was little creature that looked like a mouse- sized kangaroo, but real skinny – I know this list could go on!
Were you thinking of a jerboa? I did not realize this, but when I Googled images of jerboas, we have a choice. Some species have normal-sized ears, and some have absurdly large ears, but they’re all jerboas.
Big ears:
Normal ears:
Absurdly cute baby (at least I assume this is a baby, but it might be an adult of yet another species):
That is a sperm wearing a fur coat. Effect of Global Cooling that caused the last Ice Age. How do you think Homo sapiens survived?
THIS comment is a prime example of why I strictly follow the rule “Nothing in the mouth when reading NTMTOM posts/comments”! Good grief, Faye!??
Did you see the little wawa below?
Faye, now it’s my turn to, what is the expression, ROFLOL???? Didn’t realize sperm had ginormous feet – in proportion, naturally. Wait, isn’t there some relationship pertaining to shoe size?????
Although incredibly realistic, that last one is actually made of felt! Needle felting it is called.
WANT!! That is the kind of pup I can handle right now.
I love needle felting – here’s a link to someone named Ainigmati on Easy who is amazing:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/Ainigmati?ref=seller_info
hope it works.
Well, shoot, I fell for a photo of a toy/stuffed animal/artistic depiction, didn’t I? I should have known there are no real mammals with a head, a tail, legs, and feet — but no body. I should have checked the source more thoroughly.
That said, the real Baluchistan Pygmy Jerboas aren’t a lot more plausible-looking. I’m almost sure these are actual animals.
And again I thank you! Good work!?
YES! A jerboa it is, thank you so much, GMS. How absurdly adorable are these little cuties????? I hadn’t seen the small-eared one with the enormous “plates” before. (“Plates” being Cockney rhyming slang for feet – “plated of meat”)
Just realized that the comment about needle felting referred to the jerboa and yes, now that I look at it more closely, you are right. I would guess that the artist did his/her homework, at least one would hope. Either that or the Roy The Froy thing might be starting up again.
WITH FRICKIN’ LASER BEAMS!
Cannot believe there is a petition, but I just signed it!?
Poor shark. The ending cracked me up, though. I was going to say I hope they didn’t spend too much on him, but now Pixel has a shark costume, so I guess it was worth it either way. π
Yeah, it kind of took a “Silence of the Lambs” turn at the end there, didn’t it?
I almost (almost!) feel sorry for any burglar entering Pixel’s home thinking, “how much damage could this little guy possibly do?”. Because clearly — a lot!
I wonder if he made the shark put lotion on its skin first…
Shark might not mind the hose, though…
Creepy π
He made a sharkskin suit!
Show me the way to go home ….
I’m tired and I wanna go to bed.
I had a little shark about an hour ago,
And pulled the stuffin’ out of its head …..
Good one Birdcage!
Can NTMTOM come up with the second verse?
Very we’re not gonna need a bigger boat.
I hope their couch looks nothing like a shark.
ouch, pixel goes right for the jugular..
shoulnd’ this be rated r??
All that stuffing pouring out on the floor really turned my stomach…
If I was Pixel’s parents I’d buy thrift store stuffies or make them.
All that effort for a sharkskin suit – very retro, tho’.
Is that how they’re made?
I remember Pixel fondly as the little dude who couldn’t get his cat-sibling to stay out of his bed. It was good to see P. return to a cat-less bed complete with comforting stuffy after his heroic battle with USS Shark.
“Candygram”
Don’t open the door!!!
It’s Grandma.
See, this is why we can’t have nice things.
Pixel wearing what’s left of poor old Sharkey is too much! π
“And I shall wear the skin of my enemies!”
BWAAHAAHAAHA!
Welcome, Frosty! That gets a LOL! π π π
“Oh, the humanity..!”
I’m not sure what’s more horrifying:
1. Wearing the skins of your enemy as pajamas.
2. The demonic GLOWING Eyes of that devil dog. Like something out of the Baskervilles
Maybe it is the nearness of Cinco de Mayo but @ 1:27 I could swear Pixel is thinking
“What a Rip-Off! No candy!” (or in his case probably “no snausages”)
Hmmm. Pixel seems a little too enthusiastic. Call me crazy, but I don’t think I could go to sleep at night knowing that Pixel is in the house…. :-/
It’s amazing how quickly Pixel let loose his inner stuffy killer instincts.