I’m experimenting with a new layout for the links, so let me know what you think of it. Email subscribers will have to click through to the site to see the listing.
Got my eye on you, bub.
‘Problem Child’ Cat Finally Gets Adopted By Someone Who Loves To Have Fun
The Dodo, via Murray C.
Oh, like Trudeau wasn't attractive enough already.
(Satire) Canada Fears Photo of Prime Minister with Pandas Could Worsen American Refugee Crisis
The New Yorker, via Megan W.
I am sooooo relaxed right now.
Cute cat melts hearts by watching TV with owner in a number of adorable poses
RocketNews24, via Andrew Y.
You mean *I'm* a good girl? I am? I really am?
Dogs distinguish words and tone much like humans
PBS Newshour, via Anyta
Lyurp, lyurp, lyurp...
Hundreds of baby squirrels rescued in Virginia after huge storm
Star Tribune, via Sharon H.
And finally, inspired by a story of a bird encounter shared by Allein, let’s visit this lucky family in Australia who can feed wild parrots on their back deck, via Murray C.
Well, that tears it. Pandas just put me over the edge. Canada, here I come!
As for feedback, I don’t really have a preference. It’s different but not better or worse to me.
Feedback on links: either or, no preference for me. But it’s official, I am moving/retiring to Australia. Koalas, wombats, and now wild parrots!!! And those kids are so blase about the birds landing on them. What a cool childhood. I just about fell off my chair when I saw the sulfur crested cockatoos, love those birds. I always wanted a cockatoo, especially the rose breasted cockatoo, aren’t they just gorgeous!
I thought briefly that it wasn’t real – I want to stroke that gorgeous belly!
You be careful AJ, Koalas, wombats, kangaroos and wild parrots are what Australia uses to lure you in and then it hits you with deadly snakes and ginormous spiders the size of diner plates! Brrrr!
Pfft, not a big deal. I’ve already lived in FL and put up with snakes, alligators, gopher tortoises plus all manner of various sized bugs. Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head! I swear if anyone wants to get over their fear of bugs, move to FL for a year and after that you won’t give a dang (bug, what bug??? as you casually kill one without even looking)
“…Give ’em a twist, a flick of the wrist, That’s what the Showman said. There stands me loverlee wife so loverlee…. Etc,” AJ you know the song!?
I miss the hovertexts, but if it makes your job easier, so be it. Other than that, I don’t have a preference; the new links layout certainly looks neat and attractive in Firefox on my laptop.
I could add hovertexts and captions. Thanks for the feedback.
Yes, that was the only thing that was less than great about the new layout. Most of all, though, thanks for accepting so much reader feedback on any changes you make. It really increases the sense of community here, which is already pretty remarkable for a blog devoted to cuteness!
Ditto to Laura’s “most of all.” You’re really nothing like that Mike, we’re so glad you’re that other Mike.
I like this new layout too–doesn’t take as long to scroll down the page. Captions and/or hovers always add new layers to your hilarity, Mike.
Links: much neater.
I would love a rambunctious cat like that “unadoptable” one.
I’m gratified to know that so many people cared so much for the squirrlios.
And Australia. Truly magical.
Looks slick, Mike! But I, too, would like to see your über-creative hovertexts on the photos!
The new layout is better on a large screen like my computer or iPad than on a small screen like my iPod touch where I can’t see the photos ins full unless I turn the iPod sideways but it’s not a big deal.
Let me see what I can do about that.
Thanks for the fix of the pictures Mike, it’s perfect now.
Also I love that the hover text are back.
That “problem child” kitty didn’t look too rambunctious to me… that video showed way less than Lily does in any given 5 minutes of the day! (Pet peev: People who adopt kittens and then expect them to not behave like kittens, grrrr.)
I would love love love to be surrounded by wild parrots like that!
That kitten is an angel compared to what Mia and Bindi put me through when they were kittens, they killed all my plants by climbing on they and having fights. Pulled down my drapes and chewed the corners of books!
And I loved every crazy minute of it! ❤️?
Agreed about “problem child”. My kitty is like that all the time, demanding attention and going straight for naughty if I don’t do my duty. She’s 2 years old now, and no sign of stopping. *sigh*
I’ve got a 6 year old that’s just as playful and spunky! Can be a bit tiring sometimes.
I like the new layout better, but would love to see the hovertexts added as previously mentioned 🙂 Then, perfect!
I haven’t been able to get the hover texts at all on my Samsung Galaxy 6s at all. And I feel like I’m missing out on a big part of the fun. Is there something I can do so I get them, and if so, what?
I also want to thank you for giving us so much to balance out the awfulness that seems to make it into the headlines. I send gratitude and admiration for your creativity and weirdness. (You even made it into my “gratitude journal”!)
So, thanks for being here, Mike!
The hovertexts are the same words that appear in the captions below each picture. So if you can see those, you aren’t missing anything.
Thank you, and thank heaven’s. ?☺
The new layout makes for less scrolling (which someone else has probably mentioned), which is nice.
And the comments about the Australia video makes me think of Bill Bryson’s book about Australia, In a Sunburned Country, in which he remarks often amusingly on the disturbingly large number of deadly fauna in Australia.
The video itself makes me think how there was once a native parrot in eastern North America, the Carolina parakeet, but they went extinct I think around 1900? But there are of course still feral populations here (and in the UK, and in Europe!). Parrots are such social, fractious, goofy, smart birds, they’re fun to see in the wild.
I love that Bill Bryson book – love ALL his books.
It’s really not a good idea to feed wild birds–it makes them dependent on humans.
“The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill” is a wonderful book about a flock of cherry headed conures in San Francisco. Made a great movie too.
The parrots of Telegraph Hill were the the exact feral parrots I was thinking of! I went up because I thought it would be neat to see the parrots, and also of course to see Coit Tower (beautiful murals) and for the view. I looked for a bit, saw other interesting birds, but no parrots. I was about to leave when a screeching ruckus broke out overhead; two parrots had been sitting right there the entire time, but as their green is such a perfect match for foliage and they’re so still when they choose to be, I never saw them. These two had started wrestling over who was going to stand where on the branch.
New layout just fine, Mike.
MY IPad mini is happy with it
as am I.?
Love the new hovers! Thanks NTMTOM!
My only comment is regarding hovertexts. I never knew you had them!!! I no longer have a computer so all my internet/email is on smartphone or Kindle, and hover text doesn’t appear on either. Is there any way I could join the fun?
The hovertext and the caption underneath each picture are always the same, so on devices like yours that don’t have a mouse pointer, just look under the photo.
Thank you!!!
Hi Mike, the whole site is looking fantastic. Links are easier to see and use. ?