Cute or Sad? #1

by Meg on November 24, 2005

You be the judge—to me, this entry falls into the Sad category—cause you know those teeny ducklings are like, WTF?

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{ 68 comments }

1 LiveSquid 12.12.05 at 4:12 pm

Looks like the dog is being attacked and overrun by fluffy little chicks. Someone help him!

2 BeNj 12.14.05 at 4:04 am

Haha, that’s so cool, I wish I had a squad of baby ducks :D

3 Ash 12.15.05 at 2:02 am

Ok.. now I want cute little ducklings to follow my dog around, like that. TOTALLY ADORABLE!

4 Andrew 12.15.05 at 9:40 pm

It’s sad, because where is the motherduck?!

5 Roger 12.16.05 at 12:14 am

The dog probably ate the mother duck

6 luckyduck 12.16.05 at 7:53 pm

no not sad. totally Cuuuuute!

7 Colleen 12.18.05 at 5:32 pm

I wonder if the mother duck ran away because that is a lot of babies, y’all! Don’t they usually only have 4 or 5?

I still vote CUTE, though, since everybody seems healthy and happy.

8 Raji 12.18.05 at 11:54 pm

Do you think this is sad because the dog woke up from some drunken misadventure with a duck, only to find himself covered with her little chicks who hatched and imprinted on him and now he must pay for his little indiscretion for the rest of his life while the poor innocents can’t understand why daddy doesn’t love them and how cute and good do they have to be in order to be worthy of his love?

9 ROFL 12.20.05 at 2:31 pm
10 yoyo 12.20.05 at 3:15 pm

its sad cos er-hello! chicks should stick with their mutha,no chase a dog! idiots

11 tobey 12.20.05 at 10:53 pm

maybe the mother died due to any other reason? accident? the dog accepts his role being the new mother. thats definitely cute

12 monica lopez 12.21.05 at 7:47 pm

that is really adoreblel and you dont see that kind of stove everyday

13 sparklegirl 12.22.05 at 3:28 pm

Actually, this is from an experiment we learned about in my psych class. The guy is Karl Lorenz, and he was demonstrating imprinting, which is when an animal becomes attached to the first animal it sees after it is born.

14 helix 12.23.05 at 7:01 pm

Cute, not sad. I’ve had ducks, raised ducklings, and as long as there’s someone feeding them, the dog will make a fine mother.

15 citygrl1980 01.05.06 at 3:07 pm

First it’s sad because the ducklings should be with their natural mother, but then it’s cute because the dog has become their foster mother for whatever reason, and at least didn’t eat them!

16 josko 01.06.06 at 3:17 pm

so cute

17 Selene Humes 01.08.06 at 4:43 am

This is the most adorable picture ever!!!!! You are so lucky to have an adorable duck and a ton of cute little ducks. They must be fun to have around. I wish that I was that dog!!!!

18 Ann 01.13.06 at 2:21 am

Are you aware that children die everyday because of your cruel, addicitng, enviormentally un-safe practices? Are you aware?

Aww I’m just playing with you, I got my friend light up duck lamps from Target for her birthday..maybe they were cute? ;-)

19 Jorjor 01.23.06 at 10:46 pm

It is sad cause those ducks are probably being raised to be dinner, that’s why there’s so many and there’s no momma. It’s cute cause, come on? Who doesn’t want that many yellow fuzzies follwing them around?

20 Kitsu 01.27.06 at 5:00 am

Wow. Its like three things in one.

Cute, funny, and sad.

21 chris 02.01.06 at 11:56 pm

the cheikens following the dog thats funny and strange

22 Elmus 02.03.06 at 6:03 am

The god is going to slam down on this horrid interspecies mix.

23 miles 02.04.06 at 3:35 am

why do cute things become so delicious???

24 Shannon 02.10.06 at 7:20 am

Adorable. However, the man is not Konrad (not Karl) Lorenz, the ethologist best known for rediscovering imprinting. Konrad Lorenz was born in 1903 and died in 1989 in Vienna. Mini-lesson of the day. :)

25 Nadia 02.18.06 at 9:53 pm

That is SOOOOO cutei cant belive people are calling that sad i mean the dog looks HEALTHY and HAPPY and the ducklings too so there CUTE haha we win!!!!!

26 schuylar 02.25.06 at 10:37 am

I have a siberian husky and i wish she had a ton of baby ducklings following her around instead of just chewing up the new carpet. I dont just think this picture is cute, i think it is beatiful. i only wish that my life could consist of something as happy and innocent as that dog and her babys.

27 kitcata 03.08.06 at 2:54 am

“Actually, this is from an experiment we learned about in my psych class. The guy is Karl Lorenz, and he was demonstrating imprinting, which is when an animal becomes attached to the first animal it sees after it is born.”

I totally studied Karl Lorenz and the whole imprinting thing in my Animal Behavior Class. I love that you knew that. Karl Lorenz rocks.

28 kitcata 03.08.06 at 3:01 am

Oh, oops, I think his name is Konrad Lorenz, not Karl Lorenz. Anyway, at least his studies on imprinting rock, not necessarily the man himself.

I guess either way, the ducklings and the dog are definitely cute and not sad.

29 Emilie 03.14.06 at 8:51 pm

its sooooooooooooo cute!

30 Emilie 03.14.06 at 8:52 pm

dont u think?????????????

31 catta 03.18.06 at 5:20 am

omg thats so cute!!
alot o little ducks went out one day. into the city and far away. mother dog said woof woof woof woof
alot of little ducks came back!!

32 Anybody's 03.21.06 at 10:57 pm

Dear Raji,
No, the dog wasn’t sleeping off a hang over, or fucked that poor mother duck, I think the duckies just liked the dog, and how good of a pillow he must be.

Your sick,
Anybody’s

33 ml 03.21.06 at 11:58 pm

i’m angry at the mother duck. if you’re not mature enough to take care of your own children, you shouldn’t be having sex.

34 Crystal 04.02.06 at 6:43 pm

So cute!

35 Aard 04.02.06 at 11:32 pm

This is more like from imprinting. As studied by Karl Lorenz, precocious animals imprint on the first living thing they see after birth because under normal situations, this would be their mother.

36 L4zykrnb0i 04.03.06 at 10:32 pm

The dog seems like a Jindo from Korea. The man with the dog seems Korean too.

Definately cute

37 LUIS 05.07.06 at 3:57 pm

its both cute & sad because the ducks don’t have their mother & they are cute by following a dog thats fluffy thats why the ducks think its their mother. is in tht funny .
jajajajajaja

38 august 05.10.06 at 3:12 pm

DUCK YOU

39 kayley 05.26.06 at 6:44 pm

ok…first i think this is a little sad cuz what happened to the mother duck???? but it is sooo cute cuz the little ducklings have a new mother that loves them enough to feed them….but that is also gross cuz ducks drinking dog milk???? whats that all about??? lastly, kinda confusing….how do the ducklings mistake a huge dog for their mother when that dog looks absolutely nothing like a duck besides the fluffiness??

40 kayley 05.26.06 at 6:48 pm

i sorta disagree with the first comment on it being sad cuz the ducks wouldn’t be thinking that if they decided to follow the dog in the first place…but then again i agree with it because when they grow up, they’ll probably figure out that they were “adopted.” Poor ducks…

41 Sabba 06.06.06 at 5:51 pm

Ducks… not mammals… don’t need milk… errh…

42 Sam 06.07.06 at 5:52 am

Cute!

Ducks imprint the first creature that they see as their mother, so that dog was probably the first living thing that they saw when they came out of their eggs. Also, ducks are not mammals, so they do not drink milk from their mothers. And I don’t think ducks have the capability to understand that they were “adopted”…

43 hdgfckaujehcbfiea 06.11.06 at 10:02 am

hehe…quack!!!

44 heather 06.14.06 at 8:09 pm

lol thats cute!

45 etoile 06.17.06 at 8:01 am

“The dog seems like a Jindo from Korea. The man with the dog seems Korean too.”

I think it is Japan instead of Korea because the billboard in the background says NHK which is the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation.

Very very cute picture…

46 Tanya 06.18.06 at 12:18 am

I think that this is cute & sad!

47 pet lover 06.21.06 at 1:12 pm

i think its sad and cute…
SAD: having babies follow you it reminds me of dawn of the dead….(it was so scary!)
CUTE: the dog and the baby chix follow and lay down or the dog ate their mom…

48 pet lover 06.21.06 at 1:15 pm

cute then delisious!…. nick lachey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH MAN!
HE IS…………………

49 bla7 06.26.06 at 7:15 pm

losers that is so not sad or cute

50 sierra 06.29.06 at 11:39 pm

that is so cute there like a family.

51 vivamoxie 07.07.06 at 9:23 pm

immediate reaction: definitely sad.

52 leejoohee 07.10.06 at 5:54 am

so cute♡

53 Jane 07.26.06 at 2:55 pm

omigod..it is so cute…

54 abby 07.29.06 at 11:07 am

i think it’s cute.

55 soleo 08.06.06 at 4:16 pm

such controversy…

56 Jim 08.23.06 at 8:24 pm

Some Dogs get all the Chicks!!

57 Deirdre Dee 08.28.06 at 1:33 am

Is this really a dog? Looks a LOT like my pet Arctic Wolf, including the tail (my wolf has 1/8 Husky). Whatever it is, it is really well trained.

58 Another Random Person 09.14.06 at 6:27 am

WTF!! Those ducks are like dying coz of that FAT dog that’s squishing them OMFG THIS IS DEFINATLY SAD I LIKE DUCKS THEY ARE CUTE BUT I DONT WANT THEM SQUISHED BY THE BIG FAT DOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

59 lauren 10.19.06 at 9:40 pm

chicken bawk
bawk

60 Raquel 10.26.06 at 4:20 am

Fifteen ducklings and they’re ALL yellow? I don’t think so… There were billions of ducks around where I used to live, and the majority of them were white and brown.

61 Danielle Rust 11.02.06 at 9:58 pm

This is just plain adorable not sad. I mean that dog would usually eat those pore inosint craetures. But those ducklings followed the dog. I think that is cute.

62 gravyboat 11.29.06 at 8:53 am

A cute doggy covered with cute ducklings? And imprinting after the pup? CUTE!!!!!!!

63 Kristen 12.24.06 at 6:49 am

awwwwww…….
you know i never heard of mother dog with alot of ducks behind it lol
is is soooooooo cute

64 Ann 01.20.07 at 5:17 am

I think it’s great. I had a baby mallard sleep under my Irish Setters ear. What I want to know, what kind of dog is that?

65 austen 01.31.07 at 10:51 pm

I would start laughing if I saw that in person!!!!!!!!!!!:)

66 bre 02.22.07 at 9:07 pm

Ha ha i would pee in my pants if i saw this on the street!!!!!!!!! lol lol lol lol lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahah IM HIGH!!!!!

67 Hangtieu 02.23.07 at 12:17 pm

I know being a mother is not easy.

68 bre 03.05.07 at 11:13 pm

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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