THIS JUST IN: Sea Otter Pup Takes Water Nap

by Meg on December 3, 2008

[Pulls kelp blanket over head]

Honk-shuuuuu [causes tiny bubbles]

Sea Otter Pup by the fabulous mbavolunteer.

{ 64 comments }

1 Felt Inspired 12.03.08 at 3:30 pm

so [...] sleepy….

2 260Oakley 12.03.08 at 3:34 pm

In the unlikely event of a water landing, your otter can be used as a flotation device. Or raw bar.

3 Tee 12.03.08 at 3:34 pm

He looks so cozy!!!

4 gloom raider 12.03.08 at 3:36 pm

You’d think he’d get some water in that honkable little nose…

5 Annie 12.03.08 at 3:38 pm

Awwwwww sleepy little beeper.

reaches out and beeps otter nose on computer screen.

6 Jimbeaux 12.03.08 at 3:48 pm

Make room li’l guy! It’s chilly out here and I just wanna take a nap. Having an otter companion would complete the experience!

7 T.U.M. 12.03.08 at 3:52 pm

It’s the opening shot of the all-otter production of “Sunset Boulevard.”

8 fish eye no miko 12.03.08 at 3:53 pm

Awww… what a sweet little thing! [very quietly swims around the li'l pup]

9 Hon Glad 12.03.08 at 4:05 pm

Floating on a snooze cruise.

10 Theo 12.03.08 at 4:08 pm

egad Hon Glad, you don’t know how hard I’m trying *not* to go off on a rabid rhyming bender right now.

Lose your shoes & pass the booze…

(aaaaargh)

11 kultgirl 12.03.08 at 4:09 pm

Just needs a little buddy to “hold” paws with.

12 Chanel 12.03.08 at 4:11 pm

OMG I COULD JUST SQUEEZE HIM TO DEATH!

13 Darsa 12.03.08 at 4:23 pm

Ohhh, sweet baybee! That looks tewtelly comfy!

14 DLR 12.03.08 at 4:23 pm

omg, squeeee, that’s too fricking adorable. otters are so lucky to be able to float and sleep like that. if i tried that i’d sink to the bottom just like that. i wonder where its mama is or is it old enough to be apart from her? definitely needs a floating buddie like that other otter that recently died at the vancouver acquarium.

15 metsakins 12.03.08 at 4:26 pm

Once again Meg has forced me to pet the computer screen with my mouse pointer, feeling annoyed at myself and slightly pleased at the same time! (However, Annie, I have resisted the nose beep, for now.)

16 karla b 12.03.08 at 4:37 pm

@T.U.M. – hahahahaha! All-otter Sunset boulevard! That is excellent!

Meanwhile, I am marveling at the swell big fat fuzzy feets! I bet THEY’RE warm – no bunny slippers needed.

17 Michelle 12.03.08 at 4:43 pm

They sure are bouyant!

18 mberkie0 12.03.08 at 4:48 pm

mba volunteer supplied info that this bebeh was floating in a tide pool, and mama was no more than 3 feet away, but not in camera view when he shot this pic.
And so he snoozes
As he cruises;
And honk-shu-zes
Without Shoes-es–
Drinking brews-es
By ones-es and twos-es.
My heart I lose-s;
Gives me the blues-es.
Little otter,
In the wotter,
Needs no blotter
To keep him hotter.

19 TrumanRabbit 12.03.08 at 4:49 pm

Goodbye, rabbit and deer best friends computer monitor background. Hello, D-lish otter child. As if I could resist this!

20 Theo 12.03.08 at 4:53 pm

MBerkie — um, “blotter”?
;)

21 Jen 12.03.08 at 5:09 pm

omg that is the cutest ever!!! oooooohhh i’m dyingks!

22 turbofloof 12.03.08 at 5:09 pm

Guh! Are his footsies completely huge or is it just me? He must be just a little otterlet to have grow into feet that big!

23 crazyweinerdoglady 12.03.08 at 5:24 pm

ooooo I’m sooo cold and looking at that water makes me wants to freeeeezes! Him’s feet ARE big! I’d like to wrap him around my neck like a lil’ otter stole and he could snorgle my neck and keeps me warmsies :)

24 SoCalSis 12.03.08 at 5:29 pm

William Holden was floating face down for Sunset Blvd… but I’d love to hear the otter voice-over as he narrates his fateful fate.

25 Junior 12.03.08 at 5:29 pm

When I was a kid I came home from school one day to find an otter in our bathtub. No joke.

This one is cuter, though.

26 doxnsox 12.03.08 at 5:33 pm

That fluffeh tail is killing me!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to squeesh it!

27 Theresa 12.03.08 at 5:43 pm

I am standing by with a big, fluffy towel.

28 Katrina 12.03.08 at 5:47 pm

OH! A notter! my bathtub is all ready for him/her!

29 Wendy 12.03.08 at 5:48 pm

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!

And those feetsies ARE HUGE! Yum, yum!

30 gizmo 12.03.08 at 6:04 pm

When I wake up early in the morning,
Lift my head, I’m still yawning
When I’m in the middle of a dream
Stay in bed, float up stream

Please don’t wake me, no
don’t shake me
Leave me where I am
I’m only sleeping

31 cataddict 12.03.08 at 6:05 pm

Now THAT’S a water bed!

32 pookie 12.03.08 at 6:08 pm

An all-otter production of “Sunset Boulevard”:

“I’m ready for my PAWS-UP, Mister DeVille!”

33 Karen 12.03.08 at 6:18 pm

Huh. I’ve heard of a “dirt nap,” but I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a “water nap” before…

34 Phill 12.03.08 at 6:27 pm

More from the all-otter production of “Sunset Boulevard:

“All those LITTLE PEOPLE sitting out there in the aquarium!”

35 pookie 12.03.08 at 6:40 pm

“We didn’t need dialogue. We had WHISKERS!”

36 pookie 12.03.08 at 6:42 pm

“The otters were big. It’s the aquariums that got small!”

37 mberkie0 12.03.08 at 6:44 pm

@Theo: “Blotter,” as in “to blot up extra moistiture, such as water or ink or something or other.” If bebeh ottersons were to have wet fur next to his skin, he would need blotter big-time.

[...borrowed from the octopus in the previous post. Presumably. - Ed.]

38 warrior rabbit 12.03.08 at 7:17 pm

LOL @ pookie. You Norma Desmonds are cracking me up.

You know what they said back then: You otter be in pictures.

39 Decca 12.03.08 at 7:45 pm

Without him there wouldn’t be any Paramount Bay.

40 Theresa 12.03.08 at 7:55 pm

Madame is the greatest star of them all.

41 berthaservant 12.03.08 at 8:31 pm

“You see, the body of a young otter was found floating in the pool of her mayn-shon, with two shots in his back and one in his belleh. Nobody important, really. Just a smart-aleck otter with a coupla ‘b’-slides-down-the-slippery-rock to his credit. The prosh dope. He always wanted a pool. Well, in the end, he got himself a pool…only the price turned out to be a little bit high….”

(great call, T.U.M. — and if there is anyone out there who has not seen this film, DO EET!)

42 Katrina 12.03.08 at 8:34 pm

…and sometimes an otter is just an otter…

43 Marie 12.03.08 at 9:47 pm

Lucky for him he doesn’t live near me. I would find that pond and sweep him away forever to cuddle and kiss! Sweet otter baby!

44 scoobie 12.03.08 at 9:51 pm

Soo tempting to create a big splash

45 Anne 12.03.08 at 9:59 pm

So glad to see I wasn’t the only one with Sunset Boulevard thoughts!

46 pyrit 12.03.08 at 10:54 pm

“I’m dweamin’, of a wet cwistmas…”

47 Gunther 12.03.08 at 11:04 pm

I think it’s dead

48 Gail (the first one) 12.03.08 at 11:16 pm

LOL’ing at all the Sunset Boulevard references!!

@gizmo: Great Beatles ref!

Pic reminds me a bit of the film version of “The Great Gatsby”, with Redford floating in his pool (until ‘he’s-so-dumb-he-doesn’t-even-know-he’s-alive’ George shoots him).

49 Fegli 12.04.08 at 1:20 am

I – I’ve just seen the cutest thing I will ever see in my life…

I blew a cute fuse… I will never think anything is cute ever again.

50 Mary 12.04.08 at 1:34 am

He had better not roll over too far!

51 spb 12.04.08 at 1:42 am

Oh, I SO want to see a video of this!

52 DivaPie 12.04.08 at 2:06 am

TINY BUBBLES!! :D

Sing it Don…..

“Tiny bubbles (tiny bubbles)
Make me warm all over
With a feeling that I’m gonna
Love you till the end of time…..”

53 T.U.M. 12.04.08 at 2:57 am

See Don Ho, Robert Redford, and Gloria Swanson in the all-otter production of “The Great Bubbling Sunset,” Saturday night on FOX!

54 totalee puppy 12.04.08 at 3:52 am

References and rhymes…You guys are great as usual.
tie-tie puppy

55 chanpon 12.04.08 at 4:07 am

He sleeps just like my kitties (except the floating on water part)!

56 Vanessa The Animal Rights Advocate 12.04.08 at 4:39 am

Why isn’t someone looking after him?

57 eikoleigh 12.04.08 at 8:57 am

!!!

58 gravyboat 12.04.08 at 9:47 am

Just when you thought otters couldn’t get any cuter…

59 Carla 12.04.08 at 11:33 am

thats so great! I absolutely insanely love otters!! It is snuggling with the waves!!
*head tilt*
now I can look at otters again without starting to cry, I was so devastated when “otters holding hands” Niyak died.

60 mberkie0 12.04.08 at 12:30 pm

@Theo: But of course, mon ami! Where else would a young ottersons get his hands (oops-that’s paws) on ink?

61 luvspupstoo 12.04.08 at 5:43 pm

Those big furry feet are killing me

62 Jennie Mello 12.04.08 at 6:54 pm

look, I really really really NEED one of those baby otters. Can SOMEONE please set me up with one? I just want ONE….please?????

63 Sharon Wilson 12.04.08 at 8:59 pm

Awww, it looks like someone tossed a stuffie into the pool!

64 Jackie 12.06.08 at 5:08 pm

That looks so comfy. I wish I could sleep on water like that.

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