Cheek puff

by Meg on February 18, 2006

I am seriously considering "cheek puff" to be a new rule of Cuteness. Can I get a witness on this? Look at these two little otter dudes. oh, and floppy limbs? Check!

Bill_h

Bill H. are your cheeks puffed?

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Cheek puff
02.18.06 at 12:28 am

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1 NYCGurlie 02.18.06 at 12:32 am

OMG, could these little guys get any cuter??!!??

2 Ayani 02.18.06 at 12:33 am

OMG THATS SO CUte!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :D Awww ^_^

3 chunkstyle 02.18.06 at 12:37 am

Yes, I concur.
Cheek puffs are the cutest!!! oh man and that little pale guy looks like he’s smiling **heart melts**

4 Amy 02.18.06 at 12:44 am

Gah! Oh definitely…cheek puffs!

5 Becky 02.18.06 at 1:00 am

Gimmeeeeee!

6 Tracy 02.18.06 at 1:05 am

OTTERS! otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters otters OTTERS!

7 Kym 02.18.06 at 1:08 am

Cheek puffs, for the win. :3

8 Caro 02.18.06 at 1:16 am

Oh .My .God.
Can’t get over the cuteness

9 CB 02.18.06 at 1:25 am

Definitely gonna need a cheek puff category.
I want to SQUISH them!

10 DEBBIE 02.18.06 at 1:28 am

What a cute pair. I just love them.

11 Inga-Lynne 02.18.06 at 2:06 am

The cuteness should be illegal!

12 adrianna 02.18.06 at 2:08 am

otters! them cheeky punks! so mischievous, so merry, so playful and endangered!

13 M Gomez 02.18.06 at 2:09 am

Oooohhhhhh – cute factor is otter of this world!

14 abby 02.18.06 at 2:21 am

new rule!! new rule!!!

15 manhandler 02.18.06 at 2:31 am

I’ve said it before people: watch out for those otters. They’ll bite your nuts off.

16 Mel 02.18.06 at 2:32 am

Yep. I definitely agree with the cheek puff rule. Those puffs are just begging to be kissed.

17 theidlereceptionist 02.18.06 at 2:42 am

AAAWWWWWW!!!!!! Yes, puffy cheeks it is!!!

18 Joy 02.18.06 at 2:43 am

*drool* Too…cute…MAKE A RULE!

19 Caitlyn 02.18.06 at 2:46 am

Ohhh, OTTERS. Otters are always always cute!!!

20 Linda 02.18.06 at 2:51 am

Otters are the best!

21 Flavia 02.18.06 at 3:21 am

Uh, I don’t know. Perhaps this is a little bit too much.

*drool*

22 Michelle 02.18.06 at 4:37 am

I always thought otter pups were the absolute pinnacle of cuteness. But gads! You add a little otter fat to the formula? WTF? That chubby one on the left has just snapped the needle off the cute meter. I have never seen anything so cute in all my life!

23 maggie 02.18.06 at 4:49 am

bill h? did my boyfriend send this? because i totally showed it to him weeks ago. it’s FANTASTIC.

(and leucistic!)

24 Erica 02.18.06 at 4:56 am

i want one now.

25 Diana 02.18.06 at 5:07 am

Dude! It’s the Bell otters!!

26 Guzm 02.18.06 at 5:26 am

Forget cheek puffs. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The rule of cuteness, featured here, is OTTERS. Otters = automatic cuteness.

27 frostine99 02.18.06 at 5:28 am

I just made a noise that went something like CHEECHOONEENAWNEENAW!

Mission accomplished.

28 Theo 02.18.06 at 6:50 am

OTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTEROTTER
DANGIT Meg you gotta STOP that!

[sigh] luvs teh otterz.

29 s 02.18.06 at 8:39 am

cheeks are the best, i second (or seventh) this new rule

30 Silhouette 02.18.06 at 10:58 am

KAWAIIIIIII!!!!!!!!! *faints due to severe cuteness*

31 StormCat 02.18.06 at 12:17 pm

Manhandler, why would you want your nuts where they could bite them off anyway? I’m teasing… Yes, they are Nature’s animals and deserve respect…

BUT you HAVE to admit that they are SO CUTE!!!!!! OH man, I can’t stand it…. Someone tell me why I keep coming here to make these silly noises????

32 Jean 02.18.06 at 1:04 pm

And look at the tiny ear on the darker one. AWWWW.

33 Subhangi 02.18.06 at 3:51 pm

Otters = cute. Baby otters = effing Murder!!!!

34 cool dude dog lover 02.18.06 at 5:19 pm

I know. Baby otters ARE effin’ murder. GHAAA! (I drop dead) As for making “puffed out cheeks” a rule of cuteness, why not? You got nothin’ to lose. Do you agree, people?

35 adena 02.18.06 at 5:26 pm

I can’t look at otters w/ the same degree of cuteness after I took a backstage tour of the local Aquarium.

Apparently otters are lethal. Like EXTREMELY smart (they had to replace the same panel of glass, because the otters would pound on the same place ’til it broke…we’re talking aquarium glass thickness. And they unscrewed the gates, etc, w/ their claws), and they are also very, very deadly. The staff are scared of them. The combination of smarts and razor claws/teeth, and they can kill a human in a couple minutes.

Eeeek!!

The babies are cute, tho’!!

36 cool dude dog lover 02.18.06 at 5:55 pm

Ok, adena… Darn you but not darn you.

37 Katharine 02.18.06 at 6:22 pm

Such puffy-wuffy cutie-tooties! Makes me wanna be their otter mommy and snuggle their little furry selves!

38 baaaaaaaby eeelephant 02.18.06 at 6:44 pm

OK, cheek puff NEEDS 2 b a rule of cuteness. by the way, i’m going to pretend i didn’t hear the part about the lethal otters. LA LA LA you’re not talking to me, I can’t heeeeaaaaaaaar you! (like that adorable little kitten for “Look mom, no ears)!
p.s., how can something so adorably OTTERLICIOUS be lethal????!!!!!!!

39 s 02.18.06 at 7:42 pm

actually learning of their deadliness only makes them cuter in a baby tiger baby hippo kinda way

40 andrea 02.18.06 at 8:13 pm

ahhhhh to cute

41 Norty 02.18.06 at 8:49 pm

maybe it’s the PMS… but I started crying when I saw those little tubby otter cheeks

42 Emzoi 02.18.06 at 9:00 pm

They look like little children.

*stabs self in head*

<3

43 Ponygirl 02.18.06 at 9:22 pm

SQUEAL!!!!!!!

44 MViv_Neil 02.18.06 at 9:53 pm

Cheek puffs? Cheek puffs? Have you no regard for anatomy? They’re “whisker-puffs”. After all that’s where the whisker’s come from. Could I be wrong? – would every cat I’ve ever lived with lie to me about this?

45 MViv_Neil 02.18.06 at 10:00 pm

If we’re going to call them cheek puffs we may have to consider the possibility that they’re not otters at all, but actually surly little teeny-tiny humanoid toddler-boys with full-body crewcuts. Could be…

46 E. Collison 02.18.06 at 10:39 pm

There otter be a law against pictures like this…! (Or, as the fisherman said, “I can’t *hake* much more of this!”)

47 core 02.18.06 at 11:39 pm

OK, that’s it. I can stop looking now because there will never ever ever be anything cuter than this. Of course I thought the same with the hamster avec corn picture. As for otter deadliness, who cares? Die of the cute or die of fangs and claws, and you’re still dead.

48 Lisa 02.19.06 at 12:12 am

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute!!!!!! So make that a rule, dang it!!!!!!!!!

49 mostly cajun 02.19.06 at 2:03 am

There otter be a law against that much cute…

MC

50 Beanie 02.19.06 at 5:28 am

awwww..they are so so cute!!!!! would love to keep one..of coz thats rather impossible …

51 mimi 02.19.06 at 5:34 am

Awwwh.

I can’t stop squealing over these little guys. I just can’t take all this cuteness it’s to much!

52 Chief-Ten-Bears 02.19.06 at 5:50 am

Otters are hot!

53 jenny 02.19.06 at 7:19 am

hell yeah cheek puff should be a rule! don’t you just wanna go woodgie woodgie woodgie to those little puffy cheeks??

54 weasel_tea_party 02.19.06 at 5:27 pm

Cute, but I think I like the poofyness of sea otter pups better.
Case in point: http://www.seattleaquarium.org/news/detail.php?newsid=18
and
http://www.seattleaquarium.org/news/images/image11.jpg

55 Kimberly 02.20.06 at 12:02 am

Okay, it’s not so much the cheek puff as the little tummy pooch on the white one on the left – look at that little belly! It’s so squeezable!

56 Bill H 02.20.06 at 12:35 am

My cheeks are not puffed, but my hamsters’ cheeks are!
http://www.billhenderson.org/galleries.php?gallery_id=19

57 Wendy 02.20.06 at 3:39 am

OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG They are so freakin’ cute I can hardly contain myself. I wanna eat ‘em up for breakfast, or squeeze their little fuzzy cuteness. How do I get ‘em out of that picture and snuggle ‘em up real good? I want one, no make that two, no wait, a whole big basketful of cutie, puffy, baby otters to bury my face in………O. M. G! This site is so not fair, and now that I’ve found it, it’ll be impossible to stay away.

It’s totally official….I really, really hate you for subjecting my to all this vicarious cuteness, and not allowing me the opportunity for a big fat snuggle IRL!

58 Theo 02.20.06 at 5:13 pm

“I really, really hate you for subjecting my to all this vicarious cuteness, and not allowing me the opportunity for a big fat snuggle IRL!”

Oh dear. I’ve heard that kind of language before. (link)

(yes, I’m being “funny”)

59 finn 02.20.06 at 5:32 pm

are these folks participating in the Waterfall 2006 conference??

meanwhile, this just out:
Cat parasite a danger to otters: study
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=11271382

treachery!

60 Natalia 02.20.06 at 5:33 pm

That is the cutest thing I have ever seen. AWWWW

61 Theo 02.20.06 at 5:50 pm

Finn:
1) I’m sure they’ll *try*
2) Yikes! And while I’m part of a Midwestern household which keeps their cats indoors, I’ve got cat-loving friends in San Fran that I’ll be forwarding that article on to.

62 finn 02.20.06 at 6:02 pm

Theo:
u forgot to include a link to your catses.
(prefrbly on fractal flooring.)

63 Theo 02.20.06 at 6:36 pm

Ask and ye shall.

64 finn 02.20.06 at 7:27 pm

dood, i saw u in that movie about the desert and the plane and some other stuff i don’t remember so good cos i went snoozers. i liked u in the bathtub tho.

p.s.
your cats want a puppy. i see it in their eyes.

65 Jimmmm 02.20.06 at 7:53 pm

Those otters are as sweet and cool as the pops that are bearing their name.

66 jimmmm 02.20.06 at 7:54 pm

I saw a Lexus outside the otters’ apartment. It had a bumper sticker that read, “My otter car is a Lexus.”

Cute and smart.

67 jimmmm 02.20.06 at 7:55 pm

I saw a Lexus outside the otters’ apartment. It had a bumper sticker that read, “My otter car is a Lexus.”

Cute and smart.

68 Theo 02.20.06 at 8:11 pm

Gads. I guess I’m guilty of it too, but at least when *I* make product references, I try to be more topical.

No, Jimmmmmm, I don’t want a Hummer 3 either.

69 decor8 holly 02.20.06 at 11:16 pm

wow – now THAT is cute overload! Sheesh!

holly
http://www.decor8.blogspot.com

70 Theo 02.28.06 at 3:18 pm

OTTER!
. OTTER!
. . OTTER!

Link!

71 Theo 02.28.06 at 3:28 pm

Once more, with feeling… (er, thrice more?)

72 Clo 03.20.06 at 4:57 pm

Otters are quite possibly teh ult1mat3 in kyootness!

I think cheek puff is absolutely REQUIRED for cuteness! My kitties back home puff up their cheeks when they purr and it makes their whiskars very defined and pronounced! One of them puffs herself up so much that you can actually see some of her lip :)

73 mikki halpin 04.24.06 at 3:38 pm

cheek puff or….whisker pillow?

74 Rook 04.24.06 at 4:25 pm

My pals and I refer to those areas as the “whisker biscuits.” Love the new rule. =)

75 blue moon 07.25.06 at 3:38 am

i have a dog like that

76 LB 10.12.06 at 3:55 am

ahhh my totem animal

‘cept i aint nowhere near as cute and fuzzy as these little luvs

77 Raquel 01.04.07 at 4:20 pm

They are the cutest pair I have ever seen in my life time!

78 Ann Gerheart 03.03.07 at 5:29 am

Absolutely, quite possibly the cutest babies I’ve ever set eyes on!!!!!!!!!Seriously!!!!!!!!!!!

79 Olivia 05.15.07 at 3:58 am

SQUEAL!!! omg these guys are so cute!!! lovet <3

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