Links: Happy Cute Year!

Funny pets of 2024, dogs meet their parade float copies, funny cats, oh the hugged manatee, and more.

And finally: They Were Good Dogs, Brent

Allein shares the good dogs of 2024 from We Rate Dogs.

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25 thoughts on “Links: Happy Cute Year!

  1. Georgiana January 1, 2025 / 9:23 am

    Happy 2025 Cutetropolis!

  2. allein 🐾 January 1, 2025 / 9:43 am

    Happy New Year!

    Of course, the dogs were good again this year.

    Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to catch a train.

  3. 6rabbits January 1, 2025 / 10:00 am

    Watched the Dogs of 2024 once, and I’m sure I’ll be watching many more times. They are just SO GOOD🥲

    Happy 2025 peeps! May the best of last year be the worst of this year.👍🏼

  4. AJ January 1, 2025 / 10:05 am

    Happy New Year one and all! Definitely needed the cute this morning to recover from the idiots lighting off fireworks all night last night. I think they finally stopped about 1 in the morning. At midnight it was a solid 20 minutes of non-stop explosions. Why do people think that’s a good idea, leave it to the professionals! Poor puppers were so not having it. One spent the night under the bed and one was curled up next to me. Now they’re having a well deserved lie-in after their morning potty break. Fingers crossed the numnuts have run out of fireworks and tonight is quiet.

    • allein 🐾 January 1, 2025 / 10:09 am

      We had rain and even a thunderstorm (it was 50 degrees!) and I was hoping it would stick around and be heavy enough to prevent fireworks, but alas, it did not. They didn’t last too long, at least. I heard a few pops around 11-ish, then some real fireworks at midnight, but they only lasted a few minutes, then a little later a few more pops and that was it. Hopefully they remember that the holiday is only one night.

    • DEBG January 1, 2025 / 1:11 pm

      So sorry for everyone’s distress. Give the pups a big kiss from me.

  5. tara January 1, 2025 / 11:36 am

    Happy New Year Everyone!

    Hear! hear! to : “May the best of last year be the worst of this year.”

    These compilations are wonderful. The Dogs – the DOGS! So many goodest buddies. It makes me think I might want a dog. I’ll have to discuss it with the cats first though.

  6. Alice Shortcake January 1, 2025 / 12:35 pm

    Happy New Year, Cutetropolitans! I hope your 2025 got off to a better start than mine. Whilst putting my trousers on this morning I rashly balanced on one leg instead of sitting down like a normal 64 year old, somehow managed to throw my back out, and am now unable to stand up straight. Things have improved a bit since the mishap so I hope to be back to normal in a few days.

    Possibly due to the wet weather there were very few fireworks going off in the neighbourhood last night (or perhaps fireworks are just too expensive). In previous years the noise level has ranged from “extremely annoying” to “full-scale artillery bombardment”, so the local pets and wildlife must have breathed a collective sigh of relief.

    • tara January 1, 2025 / 12:51 pm

      Oh no! Alice, thrown backs are not fun. I hope it heals quickly.

    • DEBG January 1, 2025 / 1:12 pm

      Sorry, Alice. The cats are sending healing purrs and I’m sending virtual hugs that are probably more comfortable than actual ones.

  7. allein 🐾 January 1, 2025 / 12:47 pm

    The Girl with the Dogs just posted a Best Of 2024 video, too:

    (The one at about 20 seconds that is in a different tub with another woman there was an extremely matted little dog that shrunk to at least half the size once all the matted fur was removed (which took a while). She had to go to the shelter and had a vet tech helping in case they needed to medicate the dog. She went through multiple pairs of scissors and had to have the scissors and clippers serviced/sharpened after it was all done. It was hard to see but the poor pup was so good for it all. Link here if you want to watch.)

    • tara January 1, 2025 / 1:31 pm

      oh that poor little Angel. I hope there is a follow up video? Was she adopted? Thanks for posting this and the extra link.

      • allein 🐾 January 1, 2025 / 1:59 pm

        She says in the beginning that this was on December 13th; sounds like she needs more medical treatment before she’ll be available for adoption. I don’t see her listed on the humane society’s site at the moment; their instagram has a post from 12/17 but I don’t see any updates since.

        I think toward the end she tells the tech that maybe once she’s healthy enough for adoption they can bring her in for a proper grooming, too, so hopefully that will happen and we’ll get a video of that.

        • tara January 1, 2025 / 4:04 pm

          Ah – I didn’t catch the date. Agreed, she probably needs a lot more TLC before she can be adopted. It was so good to see her walking!

  8. Kar January 1, 2025 / 1:08 pm

    Happy New Year everyone!

    May 2025 be a great year for you all!

  9. DEBG January 1, 2025 / 1:19 pm

    Happy new year, everyone! I’m so grateful for all of you, and for this lovely home on the Internet that Mike has made for us. I’m going through the links just a little at a time, to make the happy last longer.

    Just a few fireworks last night, thank goodness. Lavender looked *almost* ready to come cuddle with us on the bed this morning, which is a huge step for her.

    I’m doing my usual mindfulness day for New Year, and it’s been heavenly. Maybe I mentioned the BBC radio dramatizations of Ursula Le Guin last weekend: they did the 5 full-length Earthsea books (and brought in a bit of the short stories in Tales of Earthsea), plus The Left Hand of Darkness. The earthsea adaptations are pretty good, and Left Hand is fantastic so far. I’m really pleased that I stumbled across this collection.

    Appliances get delivered on Friday, fingers crossed. They were on their way to me last Saturday, and something happened, and they didn’t arrive. I cannot wait to get my kitchen back in order!

    Hugs and love to you all.

  10. DEBG January 1, 2025 / 1:20 pm

    Also I want to go to London and ride all the trains etc. just to meet Viola. I’m in love with her and her person.

  11. DEBG January 1, 2025 / 1:48 pm

    Just went through the best tweets compilation on Huffpost, and my sides ache from laughing. I love these roundups and compilations.

  12. Duckie 🐥 January 1, 2025 / 2:50 pm

    Now that I had a nap…
    Happy New Year to all Cutetropolitans.
    Stayed up till after midnight to keep Smol One company. Apparently New Year’s started at ten and continued until 12:20. Hubby kept asking me to come to bed, and I finally told him he shouldn’t have allowed the neighbours to get me a pet for which I would feel so much responsibility.
    This year, we will pay off our line of credit and other small debts, assuming that our tax refund is as big as I have speculated.
    Duckie went from egg laying frenzy to spontaneous moulting, and consequently started this year three inches shorter than she was last night.
    Off to have not very nutritious lunch, then do nothing.
    Have a great day.

  13. Sowmya January 1, 2025 / 3:10 pm

    Happy New Year to everyone in The Qte! Wishing everyone a healthy and happy 2025 with loads of Adorable Creatures in it, and thank u again, Mike & Cutetropolis, for making this one of the best places on the internet!
    Nikolai Devinovich & Ekaterina Velikaya started the new year off with an epic whap-fight for control of the top of the 7 foot cat tree.. Now an uneasy truce while they pretend to have been Good Cats all along.

  14. Kar January 1, 2025 / 4:02 pm

    Now this is how to start off the new year:

  15. Ricky & Bibi's Mom January 1, 2025 / 7:06 pm

    Happy New Year, Mike and all Cutetropolitans!

    Alice, I hope your back recovers quickly, completely, and with a minimum of pain.

    Little Duckie, stand tall!

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