Before his ears grow out of control, get a load of this bebe Fennec Fox

by Meg on June 3, 2008

Fennec foxes are well known for their contributions to the Rules of Cuteness, most notably their whopping ear-size.

This little Dewd is all, "I’m kitten-like, and don’t have my big ears yet!" and follows up with "Ye shall perish from my cuteness REGAHDLESS!"


Communication, originally uploaded by floridapfe.

Turning the knife in this pic:


Fennec fox, originally uploaded by floridapfe.

Lori W., fennec-licious find. I like how his eye-capsules can BARELY hold on to this concious world and are… drifting…. so… tie-tie

{ 109 comments }

1 katiedid 06.03.08 at 12:21 pm

My cuteness you will perish from.. *Creepy laugh*

2 DKN 06.03.08 at 12:26 pm

Bleennec fox! SQUEEEEEEEEE!

3 Leilani 06.03.08 at 12:28 pm

This clearly demonstrates why baby foxes are called “kits”! They guy holding him looks more than a little foxy, too. Mmmm-hmmmmm!

4 Wincey 06.03.08 at 12:29 pm

He’s all Yoda-like, but still cuter than pie!

5 Babs 06.03.08 at 12:36 pm

He’s really workin’ the capsules in the second pic.

6 metsakins 06.03.08 at 12:42 pm

ded

7 lurkingsmirk 06.03.08 at 12:42 pm

*loud gasp of surprise and admiration*

8 Khadija 06.03.08 at 12:44 pm

Wincey, you beat me to it!!

9 Theo 06.03.08 at 12:47 pm

Category: Pocket Pets… for *NOW*

AHHHahaahahahhahahaaaa!! Ha.

10 Lurker 06.03.08 at 12:51 pm

The whiskers. They’re killin’ me. KILLIN’ ME, I tells ya! I am being cold-bloodedly murdered by a set of bebbeh fox whiskers. R.I.P. Me.

11 Laura 06.03.08 at 12:53 pm

Oh, I think I can fit his whole head in my mouf!!! One big SUPER NOMMING!!

12 Kari 06.03.08 at 1:01 pm

Leilani, more like the guy holding him looks like he needs a SHAVE!! But the behbeh fennec is tres adorable!

13 chanpon 06.03.08 at 1:03 pm

Want, want, want!! Even when he looks a little annoyed like in the 2nd pic.

14 Kristin 06.03.08 at 1:07 pm

When tiny and bebeh-like you were, look as cute you did not! Mmmmhmhh!

15 Meers 06.03.08 at 1:11 pm

He looks like the perfect melding of kitteh + puppeh!

16 JMH 06.03.08 at 1:12 pm

The force is strong with this one!

17 Laura 06.03.08 at 1:21 pm

I agree, Leilani, the guy is about as cute as the bebbeh foxling!

18 Genosha 06.03.08 at 1:24 pm

noo waays! how cute is that thing!

19 Metz 06.03.08 at 1:26 pm

exactly the perfect size to fit right here in this little niche under my chin next to my collar bone. gimme now! I need a furry squeet critter to snuggle in that cold empty spot!

20 shells 06.03.08 at 1:27 pm

Ummhmmmmmm, my ohana sistah, they’s two foxes in this photo!

21 Redzilla 06.03.08 at 1:34 pm

Teho, please please please, could we have some morphing action??? I so desperately want to have my theory confirmed that his face and nosicle are going to essentially stay the same size while his ears balloon to fennec proportions.

22 gravyboat 06.03.08 at 1:36 pm

Whatta coot behbeh. Methinks he needs me as a smoochin’ agent.

23 hon glad 06.03.08 at 1:44 pm

Fenntastic.

24 stephanie 06.03.08 at 1:49 pm

the ears… they beckon… can you hear them?

“o nice lady, will you not help us grow with your soft kronchings?”

yes, my sweets… never fear, i will nom you.

25 LadyDarya 06.03.08 at 1:58 pm

ROFL to Kristin – that was too perfect!!

26 bucky 06.03.08 at 2:05 pm

OH MAH GAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lord…may i please have fennec?

27 Wicked 06.03.08 at 2:15 pm

Teh cute! Teh tiny widdle paws! The almost big ears!

GAHHHHHHH!!!!

*head explodes*

28 Kris 06.03.08 at 2:32 pm

What a cutie pie!

Kristin, that was awesome!!

Hon Glad beat me to ‘Fenntastic’ so I’ll go with Fenntabulous.

29 ThreeCatNight 06.03.08 at 2:33 pm

Hello! I am Yoda Fox, so cute I am. Wise I am, and people I like. Be fooled not by my smallness, all answers do I have, and snorgle you I will.

30 arielle 06.03.08 at 2:35 pm

that little dude looks exactly like i do in the mornings. he’s like, glaring at the guy, thinking “why did you wake me up?” *glares squintily*

that’s alright, lil guy, i understand. *scritches soft lil head*

31 Cody-kun 06.03.08 at 2:36 pm

I agree with both of you,Lielani and Kari

he’s foxy, BUT needs a shave! smooth skin is needed for smooth uninterupted snorgling of teh tiniez earzzz!!!

32 aloria 06.03.08 at 2:43 pm

AWH it looks like an albino Gizmo

33 Katrina 06.03.08 at 2:47 pm

I don’t know why, but my first thought was to very quietly put my ear to the fox’s furry back and listen to his heart.
And the guy is a bit Fenncky himself…

34 Uilleand 06.03.08 at 2:59 pm

I’m totally with ya, Leilani. Dood is yum-tastic!

YodaFennic-face could use some nibblin’ too!!

35 milkfilledandroid 06.03.08 at 3:10 pm

So that’s what Yoda looked like as a baby. Who knew??

36 Rosie A. 06.03.08 at 3:15 pm

I cannot begin to tell you how much I would smooch that whiskerly tickerly lil mouf! Germs be damned, I’m going in!!! *SMOOOOOOOCHA*

37 Melinda 06.03.08 at 3:23 pm

I want to stick all of his cuteness in my mouf. Why is that?

38 jaime 06.03.08 at 3:51 pm

Cute boy, too. Double goodness.

39 Dusty 06.03.08 at 3:54 pm

I could kiss both the dude and the bebeh Foxy…mmm not at the same time though…

40 zeldapie 06.03.08 at 3:57 pm

Can’t.
Take.
The Cuteness.

*faints

41 revolution724 06.03.08 at 4:02 pm

No, really, IS there any cuter animal than fennec foxes? I think there is not.

Agree that it looks sort of like a kitten, though. A sleepy, out-of-sorts kitten. Exactly the same facial expression as my cats get when I wake them out of a dead slumber by smooching them on the belly. I would be guilty of waking up this baby to cuddle it, too.

42 Glix 06.03.08 at 4:15 pm

Maybe there could be a category for when human eye-candy is included? It’s happened several times before. Case in point:
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2007/01/sleeping_mcquac.html
It seems like I remember almost as many comments about the guy as there were about the duckling.

43 diana 06.03.08 at 4:30 pm

There is nothing better than a picture of a super hot looking guy holding a tiny, helpless cute little baby animal.
UNLESS that super hot guy and his sidekick are hanging out live in my living room.

[Some might not *entirely* agree... - Ed.]

44 saffron 06.03.08 at 4:35 pm

Fox? What fox? All I see is a beautiful boy

45 eikoleigh 06.03.08 at 4:54 pm

Gorgeous!

46 berthaservant 06.03.08 at 5:19 pm

There’s a bit of ‘tude in the second photo.

You can all enjoy the boy as much as you want, just don’t go screamin’ at me the next time I make a “mmmm, tasty” comment about a cats-n-racks.

[High five! - Ed.]

47 Skadi 06.03.08 at 5:23 pm

I second Glix’s comment. There was also a cute guy with a puppy sleeping on his legs, and a cute guy and a bicycle and some sort of cute animal (such was the cuteness of the guy, I can’t even remember what the cute animal was). It can be the answer to Cats n’ Racks. Nothing is hotter than a guy with an appreciation for a cute animal.

48 S 06.03.08 at 5:28 pm

I <3 the bebeh fox, and the boy looks pretty good to me too. Oh, and I'm all about tasty comments for cats n racks!

49 starling 06.03.08 at 5:32 pm

*begins to type*

*kitty enters house*

I don’t have a kitty.

Goodness, he’s cheeky.

*goes to retrieve kitty from kitchen*

50 mlle_x 06.03.08 at 5:48 pm

Better not get him wet or feed him after midnight! His cuteness will become lethal!

51 Berwyn 06.03.08 at 5:48 pm

The bottom pic looks like a little Yoda.

52 jmuhj 06.03.08 at 5:56 pm

Leilani, yew arr absotively pawsolutely rait. Funnii yew shud notiss taht. ;)

53 nismo 06.03.08 at 6:20 pm

It’s funny how the fox is just staring at the guy in the first picture. “Look at him…watching me.”

And what’s all this talk about the guy needing a shave? Five o’clock shadows are manly.

54 Theresa 06.03.08 at 6:20 pm

Airplane ears.
Sleepy eyes.
Dainty paws.
Whiskers.
Beepable nose.

55 Jupiter Star 06.03.08 at 6:22 pm

From the side, he almost looks like a bebeh polar bear!

And then from the front, he looks like a weapon of massive cuteness. TAKE COVER, EVERYONE!

56 Wendy 06.03.08 at 6:31 pm

OH!

MY!

GOODNESS!

WANT!WANT!WANT!WANT!WANT!WANT!
WANT!WANT!WANT!WANT!WANT!WANT!
WANT!WANT!WANT!WANT!WANT!WANT!

Where does one get a Fennec Fox??

57 LisaL 06.03.08 at 6:33 pm

OMG… I just ’sploded from the cute!!

58 riolinda 06.03.08 at 6:35 pm

First picture was cute with two foxes … Second one killed me! That look, those ears, the little claws, i’m dead!

59 Chelonianmobile 06.03.08 at 6:46 pm

*SQUEE*

Ahem. Yeah, he does look like a kitten.

60 claudia 06.03.08 at 7:13 pm

awww he’s all “Whatchoolookinat?”

61 Daphne Moss 06.03.08 at 7:26 pm

Oh, now this is totally unfair…indescribably beautiful babe…and a sweet little fennec fox..
Would love to hold them both! ;-D

62 Patty 06.03.08 at 7:49 pm

That Flickr site has lots of really cute animals pics. Here is the URL to a baby marmoset from the same site. http://www.flickr.com/photos/floridapfe/2478107696/in/set-72157604673199038/

63 Apathygrrl 06.03.08 at 9:16 pm

*cries* Sooo soooo cute!!! I’ve loved fennec foxes forever. Now we’re beginning make the rest of the world love them too.
Want teh bebbeh.

64 amber 06.03.08 at 9:19 pm

aww.. so cute!

65 amber 06.03.08 at 9:28 pm

the definition of prosh, right?

66 alliecatt 06.03.08 at 9:37 pm

It’s official: i dies from cute overload.

67 ashley 06.03.08 at 9:46 pm

thats usually the face I make after several jack and cokes-but its cuter on the fox =D

68 mari 06.03.08 at 11:15 pm

is this from a zoo or private? or some shelter for endangered species? I would so love to know the location, if you could tell me, thank you

69 mari 06.03.08 at 11:16 pm

just read it , Korea
the boy/man has beautiful long eyelashes

70 Mina 06.03.08 at 11:23 pm

Its cute but it looks like a cat and a chihuahua mix!

71 J 06.04.08 at 12:06 am

mmm hmm. i’ll take both in a doggie bag to go.

72 Em 06.04.08 at 12:40 am

Very nice. I enjoy CO all the time. :)

73 fish eye no miko 06.04.08 at 12:56 am

Oh, god… the ears! [squee!]

74 my sister's cat is a blob 06.04.08 at 1:12 am

This calls for a new category: Disapproving Fennec Foxes.

75 Ameri 06.04.08 at 1:35 am

0.0

*splodes*

76 Wendy 06.04.08 at 1:52 am

OHMYGOD!!!

Speaking of ears and whiskers and unbearable cuteness…….

LOOK at this one from the same guy:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/floridapfe/1813051167

IT

HAS

GOT

TO

BE

THE

CUTEST

YET!

77 writtenwyrdd 06.04.08 at 4:24 am

Looks like Yoda!!!!! With a bleach job!!!!!

78 Lee 06.04.08 at 5:01 am

He looks like a tiny baby polar bear in the first one.

79 lurkingsmirk 06.04.08 at 5:31 am

Ok I know animal pix with children in them aren’t popular here but if you look at the same photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/floridapfe/439651612/in/set-72157601315626282/

Why couldn’t this have been my childhood?

80 Trippy-Gypsy 06.04.08 at 12:43 pm

Ye gods.
Two foxes.
And I just learned that, yes, behbeh fennekz do get their Monstrous Ears Of Pwn while they are still tiny. Take that, world!

81 katybug 06.04.08 at 4:06 pm

FENNEC OWNS MY SOUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SOOOOOOOOOOOO ADORABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

82 leannrose 06.04.08 at 5:07 pm

OMG–don’t look at the pic Wendy linked—it will kill you with teh QTE!

WANT

83 SSsss! 06.04.08 at 5:39 pm

BABY YODA!!!!!!!!!!

84 Barbarella 06.04.08 at 7:30 pm

Baby Yoda indeed. Gosh. Ze ultimate cute. :D

85 Theo 06.04.08 at 7:47 pm

Not Yoda! NOT YODA!! Yoda is made of broken language and CGI!
Fennec is made of love and sky.

86 Totalee Puppy 06.04.08 at 8:33 pm

AAAWWWW, THEO…what a special thought…

87 Renee 06.04.08 at 9:34 pm

If that is a pet-then I feel this is just wrong.
Something like this should be admonished not gushed over because of surface cuteness.
Wildanimals belong in the wild; not as someone’s pet. That is why we hear stories of people being attacked and animals being euthanized; somebody thought it’d be CUTE to have a tiger, wolf or bear as a pet. Next thing you know little susie gets mauled becuase the animal’s INHERIT instinct kicks in.
People please leave the wildlife (and their rescue) to the professionals.

88 Theo 06.04.08 at 9:39 pm

Um, it’s “inherent”.

Some foxes, like this Fennec, can be pets. Similarly, some “domestic” cats can be feral and survive in the wild. (This doesn’t mean I’m planning to kick Mr. Bounce out of the house.)

89 renee 06.04.08 at 9:56 pm

Okay….INHERENT instincts kick in.
Better?! Sheesh.

Just because something CAN be a pet doesn’t mean it SHOULD be a pet.

90 Wendy 06.04.08 at 10:06 pm

Um, Renee, it’s not a pet.

If you follow any of the links to the original Flickr page, you’ll see these foxes are at a zoo in China somewhere. I think the guy who took them works at the zoo.

91 Wendy 06.04.08 at 10:07 pm

I’m sorry, make that Korea.

92 Theo 06.04.08 at 10:07 pm

Renee — conversely, some animals that can’t be pets, *should*. Like tigers, since you mention. I *should* have a pet tiger. (Preferably one that I could ride; we would have a telepathic bond, epic adventures, overcome ridiculous adversity, and ultimately reach a horribly overused yet satisfyingly heroic ending. We would be living legends to our grandkids and grandcubs.)

But I can’t, because I don’t want to be Roy Horn.

93 Wendy 06.04.08 at 10:09 pm

lurkingsmirk, there’s a whole series of photos of the baby orangutan and the little girl.

They are fantastic!

94 Renee 06.04.08 at 10:21 pm

Wendy- if you notice, I said IF it was a pet. I didn’t make the assumption that it was. I then said how I felt if it WAS a pet.

Theo-
This is my point.
There are THOUSANDS of domesticated animals that are being euthanized due to lack of acceptable homes, being unwanted etc…
I live in a state that has passed a law which fines owners if they don’t spay or neuter their treasured friends BECAUSE of overcrowding and lack of want etc..

I would hope that someone who wants a pet, think about ones that are already desperate for a home rather than get a exotic one that shouldn’t have been bred for that purpose.

That’s all.

95 Theo 06.04.08 at 10:35 pm

Renee — you know how a cat will sometimes bat a fieldmouse around for half an hour before they get bored, turn it inside out & drop it on your pillow?…

I appreciate what you’re trying very hard to say. So do probably 99% of the folks on Cute Overload. It’s just, seriously, we *know* this stuff. Your point, and the reason this website exists, are not at all the same. We just happen to share (or be) some of the same sympathetic folks.

Pick your battles. You’ll be happier.

96 lurkingsmirk 06.04.08 at 11:38 pm

Hehe Renee, your whole “IF this is a pet–blah blah blah” reminds me of when people say “I don’t mean to be rude, but blah blah” and they do mean to be rude.

I haven’t heard any stories of little susies being mauled either by pet tigers. I have heard of people being mauled in the wild, by wild animals.

97 Renee 06.05.08 at 12:47 am

Well, Theo, it looks as if lurkingsmirk is in that 1% catagory you mentioned earlier.
Good thing you and I had this exchange. Sounds like someone needed some education on the subject.

nlnn

98 All y'all are soundin' stupid 06.05.08 at 12:50 am

But I can’t, because I don’t want to be Roy Horn

posted by Theo.

Was that tiger in the wild, lurkingsmirk? Maybe the WILDS of Vegas.

99 Andrew 06.05.08 at 1:49 am

Can we all just PLEASE focus on the reason we even look here: We love cute animals.

Let’s quit bickering and continue on with our love-fest of animals.

100 Heather 06.05.08 at 1:52 am

I think if Yoda had a baby; that’s what it’d look like.
*HUGS KIT*

Ooo, what a Q-T!

101 Theo 06.05.08 at 3:04 am

(Siegfried and Roy, LurkingSmirk. And way to follow my lead.)

102 sachin 06.05.08 at 4:38 am

Very cuteeeeeeee, just looks like my friends little daughter!!!!

103 Raemie L. 06.05.08 at 6:40 am

Love the sleepy look in the 2nd pic.
Bebeh fennec says, “More sleep/naps, plz.”
(Same to us hoomans. :P )

104 Iris 06.06.08 at 1:45 am

I want one so badly!!!

105 Subhangi 06.06.08 at 5:14 am

Awwwwww, who wants a kees on the hayd? Yes, YOU do, behbeh McFennecsons!

::snorgle::

106 guttersnipe 06.06.08 at 3:04 pm

I want to submit to open heart surgery and have that little guy tucked in.

I cannot get enough of fennecy cuteness.

107 Gabriella 06.06.08 at 9:16 pm

How can people kill these animals for their fur?! Adorable little guy (or girl.)

108 Holly 06.10.08 at 8:48 pm

This has got to be the cutest baby animal I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at him!! I want to hug and kiss his tiny little head, forever. That will be what Heaven is like!

109 katiedid 07.09.08 at 3:37 pm

You know what they say Renee.. Those who cant do ( or in this case.. those who know nothing..) Teach!!!!

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