Yeah, now I'm like "Please don't kill me with your eight adorable paws!"
Spiders Have Tiny Paws, And It May Change The Way You Look At Them
Bored Panda, via Sharon A.
Oh come on, that's just a throw rug with a head attached to it.
Fluffy Maine Coon Cat Can’t Contain Her Magnificent Floof
Love Meow, via Sharon G.
I can do it!
Kitten 1/3 Size of Siblings Determined to Get Bigger Despite Rare Condition
Love Meow, via Andrew Y.
It's because they haven't been spotted. (rim shot)
Rare White Giraffes Cause a Stir in Kenya
The New York Times, via Megan W.
Palm Panda
Russian Artist Makes Cute Woolen Animal Toys Completely By Hand
Bored Panda, via Andrew Y.
And finally: Save the Last Dance for Me
Reader Jon R. sends us this touching moment between doggie daddy and his best girl.
Cute little paws tippy-tappying across your face as you sleep. 😀
I’m never sleeping again, thanks.
Same here.
Once when my father was in the army, he laid down for a nap during a lul in whatever training exercise they were doing. His men sat there and watched as a banana slug oozed across his face. Frankly, I’d prefer a spider.
Eeewww!! ?
I will try to cheer up the arachnophobes by saying: Isn’t that stupendously floofy cat beautiful? I cannot *imagine* the amount of brushing he requires, however!
Oh, good! My spider buddy might eat some of the demodex mites (they live in your eyelashes and come out at night to mate on your face).
Okay, I might have to unsubscribe from this thread…
What is this: gross out Duckie (and everyone else) day?
Their digestive systems are so efficient they never need to poop during their entire lives. They are, in fact, entirely without anus.
Oh, I love spiders!
If I remember right (it’s been a while) Oliver Sacks wrote in his book “Hallucinations” that for some reason spiders are one of the most common hypnagogic hallucinations (things you see when you’re half asleep and half awake). I’ve found that very helpful – now when I see a spider scampering across my pillow, it’s my cue to realize “Oh, I must still be dreaming” – and it’s true!
I wonder it that has anything to do with eye floaters…sometimes I think I’m seeing a bug but it’s just a spot in my eye.
That sounds v. plausible – the other thing I ‘see’ is a sort of tumbling fuzzball, which could also be an eye floater.
Sorry, but no…spiders still aren’t cute. Minnie is! And I think that Goldie thinks she’s a lap dog. Adorable.
Yeah, I’m gonna take a nope on the spider paws, thanks. Moving on to white giraffes.
OMG the little felt owl. And the pug!
That’s a big, fat NOPE on the spideys. Thanks a whole heckuva lot for all my future nightmares, BFB. (shudder)
According to the GoFundMe page, mini Minnie’s surgery was a success, BTW.
Yay for mini Minnie! She’s adorable and I want to cuddle her.
Hurray! May she soon grow to be as big as Pixel!
I’ve had a vomiting cat, those are NOT fun. If I knew what the issue was, I would’ve gotten surgery so i’m glad Minnie’s was a success.
You just HATE watching a hungry cat try to eat but then can’t keep it down.
I hope that Minnie’s pounds on the pounds now.
I saw on Instagram that Minnie’s esophagus had been constricted by ligaments so much that it was only 3 mm in diameter! No wonder the little sweetie had so much trouble gaining weight!
And that Russian artist’s needle felting is just about the best I have ever seen!
I will horrify my daughter by reminding her of the Girl Scout camp in Texas where we used to go camping with her troop. In the winter, the daddy longlegs spiders would cover the inside of the cabin roofs so thickly they would look like fur!! [::shudder::]
Note to self: never go camping in Texas.
Also never going camping in TX.
Thank you for the confirm on Minnie–I was wondering how she did in her surgery. Here’s to lots of noms and good meals and weight gain for the little darling!
If it has more than 5 legs, it is dead to me. Squish!
Octopus will getch ya !
I did not see a picture of the spider…just it’s ‘paws’. Gee, I wonder why.
Yeah, nice try with the spider “paws” – close but no cigar. Some insects are really beautiful but generally – yech!
I love the floofy spider feets. I have recently acquired a tiny pet spider in my kitchen. It is the size of a barley kernel and it is taking care of all the damn fruit flies that arrived with the overripe peaches. Thanks, hon!
We had hunting spiders that lived in the outside of the windowsills and would eat all the bugs trying to get in the house. As long as they stayed outside and not inside, I liked them. But I drew a very firm line in the sand — we, window!
Why did autocorrect change “er” to “we”? I hate autocorrect!
My friend’s maiden name is Zucker and when I typed her name in a Facebook comment last night it tried to change it to Zuckerberg.
I too love the spider paws. And the big cat. And the little cat. And the white giraffim (cherubim, seraphim, giraffim–it’s the right plural). And the happy dancing doggie. How can you not dance to that song?
Those needlefelted wool critters are truly amazing. I’ve needlefelted, and it takes a lot of work to get that much expression onto a face.
(cherubim, seraphim, giraffim–it’s the right plural).
Works for me!
“Giraffim” is now added to the Cutropolitan dictionary!
@DEBG
giraffim
I’m literally dying. You killed me. You monster.
It’s not even my joke–stole it from an ex-boyfriend’s father. It’s been cracking me up for more than 20 years.
The goldie’s little tail-wags brought tears to my eyes. Such a sweet scene!
Yeah, nope for me too on the spider feet. I tried to look at it from a learning, knowledge is good, perspective, but have decided actually – not helpful at all. I think it is the claws that really ….. well I didn’t need to know that! nor have a visual! My toes are still uncurling.
Of course, reading the responses has been most entertaining! 😉 Maybe there is a method to Mike’s madness?
All of the other stuff – precious as always. I can’t believe the Coon is called Pixel! Maybe Mega Pixel – but really Minnie should be called pixel. Aren’t they both too much. sigh.
I had the same reaction to learning that spiders have claws. Truly an example of ignorance is bliss.
I saw the spider “paws” in FB last week. Still a giant NOPE.
I skipped to the doggie dance. Lovely. There should be as much dancing with doggies in the kitchen as possible. I sing to Millie often.
I love dancing with Ricky. He’s not always in the mood for it any more, but it’s one of my favorite things when he’s up for it.
My mother swears that our first cat LOVED country music. would come yell at her until she scooped her up for a dance.
YOu can always do musical canine dancing. Looks a lot more fun than those agility courses personally.
Is anybody else a little concerned about those giraffe’s? I don’t know if Kenya’s one of those watch countries but the African superstitions about eating human albino parts and all white creatures has me concerned.
And maybe I should stop watching Nightline
*sighhhh* Yes, very much concerned and I don’t watch Nightline.
Maybe I am strange, but spiders don’t scare me. I don’t like when they sneak up on me, but other than that they are okay. The rest of the links are great too, I love the linky posts.
BTW, anybody else want to attack attack that maine coon’s coat with a comb and maybe some shears?
That coat is out of control!
I could never have a pet that needs that much grooming. Pablo was perfect – plunk him in the sink and trim his nails a few times a month and he was good to go.
The spider paws are beautiful…until you realize How Much those pics must be magnified!? Nope, nope, nopety nope-nope-nope.?