Big “bunny,” dogs in the mud, hummingbird house, and sleepy kitties, in today’s links.
Sadly, while touring the Cadbury factory, he fell in the chocolate river and got sucked up a tube.
26-Pound-Cat Named Lunchbox Is A Finalist For Cadbury Bunny Tryouts
Cheezburger, via NTMTOM
Who could say no to that face?
18 Cats And Dogs That Prove No Pet Is Too Old To Be Adopted
BuzzFeed, via Andrew Y.
Meanwhile, at Woodstock...
30 Reasons You Should Never Let Your Dog Play In The Mud (New Pics)
Bored Panda, via Andrew Y. & John B.
Tinkerbell was my architect.
Clever Little Hummingbird Builds A Home With A Roof
The Dodo, via NTMTOM
Found him!
People In New Zealand Take Photos Of Local Cat Whenever They Meet Him
Bored Panda, via Andrew Y.
And finally: Just Some Sleepy Kitties
https://gfycat.com/weegiganticbaldeagle-cat
via Andrew Y.
Between the sleepy kittens, the muddy dogs and the seniors, I am ded! 🥰 Great links, as always. I’d just like to add that there is nothing better than adopting a senior – they are forever grateful for a second chance and they will love you until the end of time. ❤
Saving the muddy dogs and hummingbird for lunch. The senior pets, Cadbury auditions, and OMG MITTENS!!!! have killt me ded.
Why are kittens so perfect? Everything about them makes me melt.
My favorite bunny is Lt Dan omg
Mine, too! (Lunchbox for runner-up.)
I couldn’t agree more! 👍
I love the story of Mittens.
Torn between Llama bunny and Hamster bunny…
I’m really liking Ricky Bobby bunny – his poop is brown AND egg shaped!
Love the links today. Sometimes you just need sleepy kittens, y’know?
Question for font geeks.
What is the font used in The Dodo story about the hummingbirds? I’m a fan of the ‘plain’ small ‘a’, and it’s hard to find.
Might try here… https://www.fontsquirrel.com/matcherator?token=yixrhovy7to1flpw
Thanks! I usually get by with Century Gothic, but it’s not perfect, y’know? I don’t understand why simple ‘a’ is so rare (and often associated with quite annoying fonts). Also, I’m anti-serif. 🙂
At work we mostly use Calibri (at least since MS made it the default font when you open a new document…used to be Arial). I like size 10. Not generally a fan of serifs but supposedly they do make longer pieces of text easier to read.
Allein, that’s a fun site, though it didn’t come up with any useful matches for me. Beth, you can contact The Dodo by email and ask them. My guess is it’s a web font, and may not look as good on paper; but then, perhaps a web font is what you want.
or try this https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
Full disclosure this is from “Just My Type” by Simon Garfield. An incredible book about all things geekily, font based. I also stole the recent “if fill in the blank type face walked into a bar” joke from this book.
The font seems to be Quicksand! https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Quicksand
You can find out the font used by a site by right-clicking then selecting ‘Inspect’, then looking for ‘font family’, as seen in Option 2 here : https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/65366/how-can-i-know-what-fonts-a-website-is-using .
There are also browser extensions that detect fonts.
(Hello! Long time lurker, first time commenter, currently reading a book on web typography.)
I can’t open Andrew Y.’s videos. Can anyone help?
😭 Why, Andrew Y?
lol Allein, geez I needed that.
🙂
Oh no! All videos or just certain ones? (This is not Andrew’s fault, by the way.)
XD Funny that I’m replying myself, but I can never see tweets (not just on this site, on any site that embeds them or whatever. No idea why either, but I think it’s just a computer problem on my end…
No idea about the videos though…
Just Andrew’s videos. Sometimes I’ll Google a description and find the video elsewhere online, but that means leaving Cutetropolis…
Kittens and Mittens! Good start to my day. Add in muddy doggos just having fun and takes my mind off of all the crap going on in the world. And I’ll put NZ on my list of countries to visit on my world tour of animal hot spots but that’ll be a few years down the road after I retire. Hopefully Mittens will still be wandering Wellington.
Big thank you to all who adopted senior pets, I can foster them (like I am right now) but can’t adopt. As we all have, I’ve had to say good bye to too many four legged friends and I can’t put myself through that anymore. Right now I have Matilda, an 11-year old terrier mix, taking a break from the shelter at my house. Such a sweetie pie but she’s partially blind, has problems with her back legs and is on meds for a tick borne disease. She loves nothing more than hanging out on her blanket and getting pets/belly rubs.