Yeah, call me a softie, but I really adore baby animals!

And although I usually prefer canines over felines, theese three little fellows are simply toooooooo cute.

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,24518,00.html

(Link goes to the english section of Germany's most reknown and respected news site).

- sorry, just had to spam the forum with this -

Awesome!!!

I love baby animals as well.

I don't care if it means I'm a softie.

I like the last of the eight pictures the most (the one where the tigers are sitting on the gras together) !

Did you guys over there at least heard of the big hype that was about our baby polar bear \"Knut\"? There was so much whoopee here around that thing, it was really annoying (although he really was incredibly cute ).

Sanyarin wrote:
I read about Knut on Yahoo or something. It was crazy how much publicity he/she was getting. I think that they said it was the first polar bear born in captivity.

Yes I heard about it, that's awesome.

Polar Bear, Panda, and Tiger babies are by far the cutest of any animals. Haha, I'm a loser... but I don't care.

@ Knut:
Yeah, just as I said. It was so intense, that at some point I got really annoyed over that poor thing. Even the most serious tv-news shows and newspapers had him on the front pages every second day, not mentioning the yellow press...now he eats, now he sleeps, now he farts...you can't imagine the collective cry of agony when pooooooor Knut (meanwhile a huge beast of 250 pounds pure muscle) had to be separated from the zoo keeper who raised him (and whose name \"Mr. Dörflein\" was more reknown than the one of our secretary of state).

There were Knut-songs (who sold double Platinum), Knut-chocolate, Knut everything. Okay, that bear was cute, but we had really more important things happening but nobody seemed to care anymore...strange!

@ Pandas:
They are very cute as well, but - at least the bears I saw in Zoos - highly degenerated! We call 'em \"Porno Bears\", because the males would not even think about mating with the female pandas unless they were shown \"bear porn\" prior to the act. I'm NOT lying, it's true. And when they had finally produced some offspring, the mothers always seem that uninterested in them, that all of the babies need to be raised by zoo keepers to keep them from starving or even being killed by the mothers because they get annoyed by them crying. This species is really going to perish, even if humans would not destroy their habitat.

What an ironic topic for a bunch of crazy cat haters to be in.

Ryan wrote:
We aren't really cat haters. And besides, these are not house cats. House cats are the annoying ones.

Agreed with Withers.


Tigers = Awesome, ferocious, and cute (for like 2 months.)

House Cats = Annoying, smelly, dirty, not ferocious, and not cute.

College Wolf wrote:
I agree completely. But, I have heard that with tidy cats, the smell just goes away.

College Wolf:It does indeed. Our's is trained to go potty outside. It not even has a litter can. Combined with being outside all night long in the fresh air, our cat is extremely un-smelly.

Sanyarin wrote:
I am sorry, I don't think I was clear enough. I meant 'tidy cats', the brand of kitty litter. I think it is Tidy Cats that always says on their commercials that the cat cannot even find it's own litter box. I like stupid commercials.

MWithersAh, I get it. But no, it was clear enough. I guess, everybody NOT FROM GERMANY will understand. We have a very similar ad, but the brand using it over here is named \"Katsan\". Probably even the same company. During my stays over at Milwaukee, I figured out that you can sometimes find the same stuff in Europe and the US, but with a different wrapping and a different name.
Just to give one example: Your spray against insects \"Raid\" is known in Germany by the name \"Paral\". Don't know who invented it first and who swallowed the smaller company on that one, but it is the same stuff and they'll be naming it \"Raid\" here very soon, too.

With the time passing, it became more and more en vongue in Germany to give products true english names, although even in earlier years after WWII, some companies choose to give them names spelled and sounding like some German phantasy name, but when you pronounce it the right way, you notice it is an english adverb. But nobody usually noticed that !