A very alert reader finds more curled up paws

by Meg on December 13, 2006

Alert reader Sheri has pointed out an InterWeb site called CuteOtters.com. It’s full of deliciously slimey tiny-eared Dewds. Below are a couple of faves.

Curled_pawsitude

And check out this McSchlumphersons. He’s all: "Harummph, my bruthuhs." [Followed by heavy eyelid blink]

Mcschlumphersons

Sherimabob, I’d crack open a shellfish on my chest for you if I could.

{ 94 comments }

1 Theo 12.13.06 at 8:37 pm

oh oh oh oh oh its teh OTTERS OTTERS OTTERS AGAIN!!!!

2 Courtney 12.13.06 at 8:39 pm

sea otters!!! Hooray! Fuzzy and fabulous.

3 BCteagirl 12.13.06 at 8:42 pm

cute! :)

4 Mary 12.13.06 at 8:47 pm

YAY! Otters!

5 NebraskaErin 12.13.06 at 8:48 pm

The first one is praying! Probably for fishes.

The second one has not yet found Teh Lord. Or he’s just finished playing kickball with Teh Lord and is pooped.

6 Kate 12.13.06 at 8:49 pm

Woohoo! Ottersottersottersotters :D

Has anyone EVER seen an uncute sea otter? They have a 100% record of total cuteness.

7 Tony James 12.13.06 at 8:50 pm

Sea otters?? See otters!! YAY! :) Pik 2 is definitely a case of Teh Wennsdees – know how he feels…

8 lurkertype 12.13.06 at 8:52 pm

ODDERZ!

Yes, they are all cute. Every one of them.

9 Aubrey 12.13.06 at 8:53 pm

There have not been enough otters! We at CO do not believe in otter motteration!

OTTERS!!

10 useta hada kitteh 12.13.06 at 8:54 pm

Otttttterrrrsssss! I luvs me them otttttterrrrrrsssss! Please give the top one a somethin’ to eat so he can smash it and eat it and roll over and thusly not have to do dishes. I wanna be an otttttterrrrr when I grow up.

11 Tisha 12.13.06 at 8:56 pm

I think this one is the best (from CuteOtters.com)

http://cuteotters.com/index.php?/archives/159-Super-Fuzzball-Baby-Otter!.html

12 attackbunny 12.13.06 at 9:01 pm

Slimey?! No sir! They are magically wet and fluffy at the same time. That’s why they’re so cool!

13 PigPigPigPig 12.13.06 at 9:05 pm
14 Dewi 12.13.06 at 9:05 pm

Looks at
more! more! more!,
Notes lack of cuteotter.com.
Assumes this oversight will soon be corrected!

15 AmyH 12.13.06 at 9:06 pm

Oh! Otters! My Elvis kitty schlumps on the arm of the couch just like the guy in pic #2. Awwww!

16 Dewi 12.13.06 at 9:10 pm

Threadjack
Laurie C has put an update on her Vox account, but still won’t be looking at us too much while She is at Her Dad’s bedside. So please give her and Him your best wishes.
Threadjack over thanks

17 DavidBoBavid 12.13.06 at 9:12 pm

“Why do people to cut down trees for tables when they have perfectly good tummehs to eat off of?”

18 katerpie 12.13.06 at 9:14 pm

The bottom otter is me, by the middle of the week.

Is it Friday yet?

19 Claudia 12.13.06 at 9:18 pm

“Is it Friday yet?”

No, it’s it’s Wetnessday. That’s why we have OTTERS!

(runs very very fast away from the better punners)

20 Dustbunny 12.13.06 at 9:19 pm

That otter at the top looks like it’s meditating. Maybe it’s a devotee of TM, in which case it’ll start levitating above the water any minute now. I’ts otter nirvana!

21 Theo 12.13.06 at 9:23 pm

“better”… “punners”… ???

22 layla 12.13.06 at 9:25 pm

I can *so* identify with Slumpy McOttersons in that second picture.

As for the first widdle guy…
*beep* on the nosie!!

23 mm 12.13.06 at 9:56 pm

Otters are indeed 100% cute. It is impossible for an otter not to be cute!

24 pyrit 12.13.06 at 9:57 pm

This otter has broken its’ shellfish ways and is praying for a wottery baptism. Sea the look of clam on its’ faith?

25 For the love of jauntiness 12.13.06 at 10:02 pm

It makes me happy to imagine the second otter wearing a tiny cap and footed pajamas.

26 marsheeeee 12.13.06 at 10:45 pm

These are little cuties. Just one question: does anybody else see a resemblance between the picture of the top otter and that pre-Raphaelite portrait of some dead chick floating in a stream with her hair all spread out? Don’t know the name of it.

Sorry, didn’t mean to get all morbid and all. I was just curious.

27 marsheeeee 12.13.06 at 10:48 pm

Ok, maybe not. I just looked up the painting, and the dead woman’s (Ophelia) eyes are open. Ok, back to teh qte. Love the little curled up paws on the first picture.

28 Theo 12.13.06 at 10:52 pm

Well, NOW I understand why “PigPigPigPig” posted the Ophelia link, up there.
[makes cross-eyes]

29 Aubrey 12.13.06 at 10:52 pm

Claudia, we actually wait for Immerse-days, which of course leads to Dry-days.

pyrit, otter is obviously on his way to the cl-oysters.

30 AmyH 12.13.06 at 11:03 pm

“some dead chick floating in a stream…” Yes, Ophelia. Hamlet’s Ophelia who descended into madness and instead of getting herself to a nunnery as she was instructed, she got herself to a body of water instead.

Perhaps Otter #1 is practicing for an audition in the Community Pond Shakespeare Theater production.

31 Opt2Adpt 12.13.06 at 11:08 pm

Oh I Hate Cute Overload!!!!!

Me thinks “Wahoo! I’m going to get to leave work before it gets dark!! I’ll just peek at CO right quick….OTTERS!”

…45 minutes later…IT’S DARK!!!! CURSE YOU!

32 Opt2Adpt 12.13.06 at 11:10 pm

btw…i find it much easier to blame others for my weakness. =P

33 Claudia 12.13.06 at 11:10 pm

Theo – the better punners know who they are. Fortunately, they are tolerant of lesser punners.

The comments about Shakespeare are making me imagine otters in costumes for Hamlet.

34 AmyH 12.13.06 at 11:17 pm

Claudia – How about cats doing Hamlet instead?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbK1eCt97ag&NR

35 albatross 12.13.06 at 11:36 pm

Cathead Theater = major sock rockage. maaaajjjorrr. I can’t explain how happy it makes me to combine cute animals and shakespeare. the top otter is tooootally Ophelia, and the bottom one… how to cast him? Maybe he is Polonius, rehearsing the scene he is killed in.

36 Bookworm 12.13.06 at 11:37 pm

Awwwwwwwwww I want me an otter! I’ll name him Otter MacOtterpants and he can live in my bathtub. And whenever I have shellfish for dinner he can open them for me.

Whenever I see otters it makes me think of that Denis Leary bit, about how people only want to save the cute animals.

“What are you?”
“I’m an otter! I float on my back and do cute little human things with my paws!”
“OK, you you may live. What are you?”
“I’m a cow.”
“You’re a baseball mitt! Get on the truck!”

(Sorry to offend any PETA persons or whatnot….. Of course I don’t condone the slaughter of non-cute animals… I just lurve Denis Leary.)

37 albatross 12.13.06 at 11:38 pm

I can see him being all “I am slain! zzzzzzzzz”

38 pookiepuff 12.13.06 at 11:50 pm

Oh my goodness! I love otters! These are just too cute!

39 acelightning 12.13.06 at 11:51 pm

My old friend Margie was mad for otters – in fact, what she secretely wanted was to become a were-otter. I wish I could send her all these otterlicious pictures… but she’s been gone for ten years. I hope she got reincarnated as an otter…

40 ally 12.13.06 at 11:54 pm

ooh i can finally see the fairy hamsters!!! yaaay! so cute!

and as for the otters… can i cuddle one?? x

41 kestrien 12.14.06 at 12:12 am

This is way way by far the cutest on the site:

http://cuteotters.com/index.php?/archives/108-Baby-Otter-Triplets!.html

3 for the price of one!

42 fancyclaps 12.14.06 at 12:19 am

Because no one has done it yet, I shall.

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!Otters! Otters!Otters! Otters!

43 Arvay 12.14.06 at 12:24 am

And I suppose it’s up to me to stoop so low as to announce that they creatures are… a-hem… otterly adorable.

44 Peg of Tilling 12.14.06 at 12:29 am

Thanks for the link, Kestrien–those three baby otters look like characters about to hit the highway, helping people and having adventures–you know, like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza team up with Kwai Chang Caine, except they’re all fuzzy and bumbling. You can picture it, can’t you?

If there’s an otter version of Hamlet can we call it Omlet?

45 Claudia 12.14.06 at 12:32 am

AmyH – Sad state of affairs here; I cannot see any videos at work and I don’t have a home ‘puter. Work also filters out Webshots, youtube and many other photo and video cites. They haven’t discovered Vox yet. I’m hoping Maya gives birth before they do. I missed all the videos of the last foster kittehs.

46 Aubrey 12.14.06 at 12:36 am

I can’t think of a b-egger suggestion, Pet o’ T.

47 Anna 12.14.06 at 12:53 am

This is the cutest otter video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbrMO-ooJQE

Otters in love…

48 CuteOtters.com 12.14.06 at 1:02 am

What an honor it is for my humble little otter site to make the front page of the best cute site ever! I hope that you’ll all take some time to check out CuteOtters.com!
Thanks!

49 LAmonkeygirl 12.14.06 at 1:19 am

Chocolate McSchnozzlesons on Otter #1!

50 useta hada kitteh 12.14.06 at 1:32 am

Bookworm — I hafta ask ya, please don’t be shellfish, please share your food with Mr. Otter MacOtterpants! Ya shouldn’t otter just use him for a can opener! ;)

P.S. If you get a Otter MacOtterpants to come and live in your bathtub, can I come to visit? Pleeeeze? I won’t even make any cracks about your shellfish ways. I otter know better.

(ducks puddins and scuttlefishes away…)

(what kinda puddin is ducks puddin????)

51 lauowolf 12.14.06 at 1:41 am

What I want is a video of how these little guys got so otterly tired out.

52 core 12.14.06 at 1:43 am

I like it better when it goes otterotterotterotterotterotterotterotterotterotterotterotterotter
– but at least fancyclaps beat Teho to it!

And Otterphelia – I can see it now – a languid otter drifting downstream, an ethereal (or watereal) expression on its little furry face.

53 A thinker 12.14.06 at 2:12 am

GAH! Fuzzy McSleepersons there at the top is way, way too much.

*CuteOverloadedneerneerneer*

54 pyrit 12.14.06 at 2:47 am

Peeps, I give you:
Hairy P. Otter and the Clammer of Seacrets

55 Aubrey 12.14.06 at 2:48 am

Useta, ducks pudding invariably comes in a flutter-scotch flavor, and the indivdual servings have to be placed all in a row.

56 pyrit 12.14.06 at 2:53 am

Jemima puddleduck pudding?

57 pyrit 12.14.06 at 2:55 am

Beatrix P. Otter?

58 pyrit 12.14.06 at 2:58 am

From Scotterland?

59 postpostpostpost! 12.14.06 at 3:00 am

The Roly-Poly Pudding?

60 freetomato 12.14.06 at 3:04 am

Cute otterkins. A while back, MSN listed the 50 greatest animal movies, so I got myself over to netflix and rented “Ring of Bright Water”…has another ottercentric flick ever been made? Adorable movie but have your hankies handy. I luv them paws and the blissful expressions…

61 Bookworm 12.14.06 at 3:11 am

Usetah, OF COURSE you can come visit! I’d be otterly honored – and I promise I won’t be shellfish one bit. If I do, you have every right to get “steamed.”

Mmmmm, steamers. I needs to gets me back to New England, post haste!

I actually think the top otter (topotter!) is practicing for her next role, the Lady of Shallot.

62 chet's momma 12.14.06 at 3:16 am

Peg of tilling–*snort* hahaha! Omlet!

63 useta hada kitteh 12.14.06 at 3:34 am

Firstest, I love all the duck puddin varieties!

Secondest, Bookworm, I thank you very much. You are not shellfish at all, and I will clam up now, and not be crabby any longer. And if you drip anything on you while partaking of the lovely oceanic delights, with Otter MacOtterpants and me, I will not point out the drips, saying “See? Ur chin has drips upon it!” No, I promise I won’t do that.

And furthermore, Bookworm, I was just now thinking about the Lady of the Lake, and lo and behold, you’ve already mentioned the Lady of Shallot! (I had to read the poem again after that!) Whiskers whiten, otters quiver… That *is* how it goes, isn’t it?

64 Theo 12.14.06 at 3:35 am

Hey Core. Scroll to the top of the comments. FancyClaps beat whom to what?

65 useta hada kitteh 12.14.06 at 3:39 am

ooooh! Teho! You were first comment! ooooh! And you did indeed say OTTERS OTTERS OTTERS OTTERS! No one can beat teh Teho!

66 Theo 12.14.06 at 3:55 am

Not only that, Useta… CuteOtters.com has been stealth-linked in the C.O. Glossary for many moons already. (I am just so effing smug.)
http://www.squidgrid.com/cute/Glossary.htm#Otters

67 pyrit 12.14.06 at 3:57 am

useta hada kitteh – Oh!
“Ur chin has drips upon it!”
Frame that! Woah, my head!!!

OK, I’m going to potter off now and get abalone sandwich.

68 Sylvia 12.14.06 at 4:01 am

Oh.
My.
God.

I want 10 otters in my bedroom. No, make it 20.

KEWTEST. THING. EVER.

69 mif 12.14.06 at 4:43 am

one of the otters at the georgia aquarium has a nervous habit of sucking on her paw while she swims around on her back. so cute it’s unbearable.

70 alcarwen 12.14.06 at 5:02 am

oy, these guys are making me want to fall asleep instead of writing this paper.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

71 Subhangi 12.14.06 at 6:19 am

That’s how I looked this morning at 8.30 AM. (Except I don’t eat shellfish. Heck, I can’t break open coconuts on my chest either.)

72 Shannon 12.14.06 at 6:34 am

Eeep! Ya’ll are killin me today. First the polar bear hugging his barrel and now a sleepy otter?!?!?
Stop the Madness!

73 Lizzy 12.14.06 at 6:58 am

Awwwww, they look like I did after I got off of work today. Except I was also snuggling a puppeh. :D

74 Lizzy 12.14.06 at 7:00 am

Oh, and by the by…

Otters otters otters otters otters otters

Shellfish shellfish

Waaaave! Waaaave! It’s a waaaaave!

Otters otters otters otters…

75 Martha in Washington 12.14.06 at 7:56 am

Ok…I waded through ALL these comments waiting for it and NOBODY has said it yet so I guess I get stuck with it
Otterphelia…Get thee to a punnery.
Sorry, I didn’t want to but SOMEBODY had to.

76 Thalia 12.14.06 at 8:46 am

Pardon the blatent and ridiculous threadjack, but Theo, you’re in Minneapolis or somesuch, right? ‘Cause I sign up for an aurora borealis (northern lights) alert and it said there is likely going to be “high auroral activity” for the next couple of nights, and the northern lights should be visible “as far south as Minneapolis”. So I thought of you (as the only person I’m acquainted with in MN). So go look outside!

Okay, ending the threadjack.

Oh and damn but those otters are cute!

77 Adalia 12.14.06 at 12:04 pm

@_@ The cuteness consumes me…

No really, OTTERS ARE EATING ME!!!

^_^ Very cute.

78 useta hada kitteh 12.14.06 at 1:08 pm

pyrit — thanks for finding a way to use abalone. I was at a loss. And, at the risk of becoming otterly obnoxious, I wish to point out to you that because of the way the words wrapped, the full effect of “See? Ur chin has drips upon it” was lost. The “see” is an integral part of the experience. Just thought I otter let you know.

79 Peg of Tilling 12.14.06 at 2:33 pm

The “see” was lost so it was abalone-ly.

This pun is so bad it’s full of abalone-y.

80 carolina 12.14.06 at 3:23 pm

I am rendered speechless by both pics. I can think of nothing clever to say as my brain is currently stunned by teh overwhelming cuteness of these little dudes, just doing what they do, minding their own business.

It’s not like they’re even *trying* to be cute, it just comes so naturally. They’re all like “yawn, yeah, I know I’ve got it goin’ on, least that’s what they tell me. Actually, it’s kind of exhausting, all these people squeeing over me and the paparazzi and all that. *sigh* Pass me another shellfish, willya? I’m beat”

81 pyrit 12.14.06 at 3:36 pm

PofT – I’m no Puncing Queen but was Abba lonely?

82 Techie 12.14.06 at 3:37 pm

DEATH TO THE TABLE EATERS!!CE

HAIL SCIENCE!

(Sorry, just had to.)

83 Theo 12.14.06 at 3:43 pm

Thalia — will do, thanks! Now if only the cloud cover cooperates…
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=55123

84 Peg of Tilling 12.14.06 at 7:21 pm

Yes they were, Pyrit, so they flew away in a ba-looney.

85 Zach 12.15.06 at 1:09 am

They are no more or less cute than Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas!

86 Oliver Otter 12.15.06 at 2:30 am

The second one up there is Biko, an African spot-necked otter living in Phoenix, AZ. And a dear personal friend of mine.

87 Theo 12.15.06 at 2:35 am

Whoa Zach… way to roll out the obscure references. That came before the John Denver Muppet Christmas special, didn’t it?

88 useta hada kitteh 12.15.06 at 2:59 am

Ooh! Zach! I’d completely forgotten about Emmet Otter! I’m gonna have to go google him (although I got an instant picture in my mind!)

Thanks for the reminder!

(not so obscure for some of us, Teho — guess you just had to be there…)

89 useta hada kitteh 12.15.06 at 3:02 am

Jim Henson (of course). 1977 on HBO, 1981 on ABC. Here’s the Wikipedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmet_Otter’s_Jug-Band_Christmas

I’ve gotta find it on DVD and watch it this Christmas!

90 useta hada kitteh 12.15.06 at 3:04 am

And Yay! I’m pleased to learn that I’m not an automated robot. Something I did set off the alarm on that last comment, but I passed! I’m not a robot, or Pinocchio, I’m real! Yay!

91 Theo 12.15.06 at 3:54 pm

I *was* there, Useta.
;)

92 Susan R. 12.15.06 at 8:13 pm

Total, otter (mmm, utter?) fatigue! TGIF!!!

93 Jessica 12.16.06 at 11:08 am

This guy is cute, but he reminds me of the South Park episode. And, I think river otters are cuter. You should check them out

94 ~CHELLE*ROX~ 12.18.06 at 12:43 am

OMG! that is sooo… cute! I want those pictures for my screen saver! Your website is awesomw! I go to it whenever I can!

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