Top This!

The cute just went up another level – when will it end?!

Anything CO can cute, CO can cute better!

CO outcutes itself, all the time!

Many times. A few times. Maybe less. Once? But it was really, REALLY CUTE! (gasp! swoon! faint!)


Whew, now that that’s settled, we can credit this cute to the Japanese (of course!) Dwarf Flying Squirrel!

Momonga!, educatedearth.net. Thankcute to: Ant’s Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net/

87 comments … read them below or add one

  1. Homer mariner says:

    I just want to squeeze it!!! Although it’s eyes are already bulgy, so that may not be a good idea…

  2. Rumi says:

    THAT, my friends, is a furry snowball. :)

  3. A tree-bunny-sqeeeeeeee-ril

  4. Newsong80 says:

    Oh the cuteness! I can’t take it. Make it stop! lol!

  5. DdlS says:

    I could definitely have him for lunch, what a cutie!!!!!!!!!! hard to top it for sure!

  6. debg says:

    gasping for breath–I couldn’t even squee

  7. Alice007 says:

    SORRY I CAN ONLY TALK ABOUT THIS IN ALL CAPS. IT IS BECAUSE THE CUTE IS BURNING MY EYES. GET THAT LITTLE GUY A SMALL JACKET, HAT AND WEE SCARF, STAT. NOW I DIE OF CUTE.

  8. skippymom says:

    I’m not usually all that into sweets, but this sugar-dusted morsel will be just the thing with a nice cup of Darjeeling. I particularly like it when my snacks are smiling.

  9. Taryn says:

    extreme close up of his little mouf please!!??

  10. 260Oakley says:

    The ultimate winter weapon: the self-propelled snowball.
    You’d be nuts not to get one, if you catch my drift.

  11. Theresa says:

    EeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEeeeeeeeeeeee

    *thud* *twitching feebly*

    • Fird Birfle says:

      *looks around the Ward, for at least a cold wet washrag for La Therese’s forehead…*

      *sigh*

  12. Theresa says:

    Oh no, just for a super-squee?

  13. Theresa says:

    It’s wheeskères are longer than its boddeh!

  14. Kevin says:

    “C-c-cute!!? Stop t-t-telling me how c-c-cute I am and g-g-get me a b-b-blanket before I f-f-freaking freeze to death already!!”

  15. Bonnie says:

    Okay. This is getting ridiculous. Look at that thing! Look at it! *brain melts from the cute*

  16. Legotech says:

    He needs a sweater, little tiny hand knitted sweater….with stripes…and a teensy hood….and maybe some leetle wee gloves.

    Ok, never mind, he can hang out in my pocket, I’ll keep him warm.

  17. Sunny says:

    Eek!! The teeny smile!! *head asplodes*

  18. Miriam says:

    Uh oh. The pocket flying squirrels have been outcuted. And this one is SMILING. Maybe it just finished making a snow angel.

  19. Christy says:

    He does not need a sweater. He needs to come live in my house where I will keep him warm and safe. Want to touch the soft fur. Putting in my pocket and running away…

  20. cellarmouse says:

    she needs a nice child’s mitten like the one in Jan Brett’s book …

  21. AuntieBellum says:

    . . .

    (That’s me, being speechless for once.)

  22. cellarmouse says:
  23. Mr Frog says:

    He’s totally secretly an evil megalomaniac.

    “Bweeheehee! My sinnistur plan is flawless! Against prosh such as this, there is no defense! The general population of the Earth will bow to a new ruler — Professor Momongawww!”

    He’s smiling because he knows his plan is working.

  24. JB says:

    I was going to say, it is SMILINGK at me, but I see everyone’s beaten me to that. :)

  25. skippymom says:

    I think my cats would like to have a few of these; they are always telling me they want their own pets.

    • Fird Birfle says:

      skippy, do they tell you this, near Mealtime?

      Signed,
      To Serve Man

      (aka Twilight Zone)

      • skippymom says:

        Hey, lady, I heard you were sort of “ded” a bit, recently. Glad you didn’t go all the way!

        • Fird Birfle says:

          yeh man,

          I saw the guys come around, saying “Bringoutcherdaid” bit from MP/ Holy Grail. But I just spryly said, “I think I’ll go fer a walkies ….”

          and they let me back into line :)

          “We thank you for your support” :)

  26. bigjoni says:

    Cuteness on a stick…

  27. January says:

    Ohhhhhhhhh…wonderful! Second the request for close-up!

  28. Nassegris says:

    “Here lies Linda, who was slain by a Brute -
    Maybe ‘twas not Big and Brutal, instead quite Minute -
    But nothing is Crueller than something TOO Cute.”

  29. starling says:

    *clutches pearls in horror and goes to call the COO*

    • lisa says:

      Thank you, starling, agents have been sent. COO is in the process of creating special glasses to protect our intrepid agents from the visual onslaught of excessive cuteness encountered on our missions. These rare visual glasses, optical masterpieces created in the inner reaches of COO’s labyrinthine laboratories, are known as Cuteness Overload Ocular Protection Shields, or COOPS. For some unkown reason under investigation, they are particularly successful in the homes of excessively cute domestic birds.

  30. mplsredd says:

    thin layer of snow covering sweetness!! may you always sparkle.

    btw, also looks like a muppet. i wuv muppets!!

  31. Z.R. says:

    Anybod remember a post from a while back that looked like a bunch of these cute *squee* guys in furry eggs?

  32. Ekajati says:

    My squeee is so supersonic even a dog couldn’t hear it… I swear it’s a plot for world domination

  33. M. says:

    Need to stuff this in my shirt NOW.

  34. =bg= says:

    whacked by Japan AGAIN.
    MAKE
    IT
    STOP

  35. sunnymums says:

    Bows. I humbly accept my USA ass being handed to me, ONCE AGAIN, by the cute overlords of Japan. This little fella is cute beyond comment.

  36. DAFFODIL says:

    Breaking News!!!!!
    Hershey Pennsylvania disappears into darkness as a flock of dwarf flying squirrels drain all the cute sweetness from the city…..

    Put a pen in his hands and he would write sweet poetry.

  37. Catsquatch says:

    OMG!!!!!

    Its PIKACHU!!!!!

  38. edmundh says:

    I don’t know much about Japanese, but I believe “Yuki-” is a prefix meaning “snow” or “snowy”, and the Japanese Dwarf Flying Squirrel is a Momonga, so this is a Yukimomonga, or a “Yukimomo” !!
    :D

  39. Ayaa says:

    ^If you want to get really fancy, it could be a Shiroi Yukimomonga! (White Snowy….you get the picture.

    I really want one of these as a pet. I can’t appreciate hamsters anymore after seeing these PEARL-EYED beauties!

  40. feezie says:

    What I especially lurve is the wee decorous handy-paws resting on the tumulence, and then of course the tiniest of smirks atop that.

  41. wuyizidi says:

    So now a plain sugar glider or flying squirrel is no longer prosh enough, it has to be a manga-eyed, giant whiskered, anything-you-can-be-I-can-be-tinier dwarf flying squirrel balanced impossibly on top of a tiny branch, smiling triumphantly through harsh wintry adversity. Okay Japan, you win this round (actually you pretty much win every round), but I fear what you’ll come up next to overload our internet-hardened senses.

  42. Martha in Washington says:

    Cute…on a stick! Everything is better on a stick!

  43. Blossom says:

    This is so cute it makes me want to cry.

  44. Nassegris says:

    Aw, my comment’s been stuck in moderation since yesterday.

    Adorable critter, anyway :> Happy Easter, everyone.

  45. lisa says:

    Cute Overload Overlookers (COOers) is on the way to collect this illegally cute critter and take it back to the COO headquarters for further study.

    (Not) Lisa

  46. Maerlyn99 says:

    He smiles like he knows something. Like he knows that his cuteness is singlehandedly going to lead to the downfall of western civilization.

  47. blair says:

    who knew?

    all this time we thought the japanese were stylizing things in cartoony drawings to be cute?

    actually as naturalistic as an Audobon catalog.

    (bewildered head tilt)

  48. chanpon says:

    He’s got the “Yea, I’m cute and I know it” smile.

  49. Wookiebait says:

    Only one response is worthy of this pic.

    Squeeeeeeeeeee!

    Ahem. Thank you.

  50. Sandy says:

    THIS IS SO CUTE!!!!! omg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  51. DejaMew says:

    The little fella is very cute, but I also notice the tree has a “face” and its mouf is open to NOM the cuteness! Oh noes!

  52. TUM says:

    I used to be able to watch flying skwrlz from my kitchen window.

  53. Nikki says:

    Wow, does that look like a Pokemon! Adorable!

  54. Jessica says:

    Just a little round snowy ball of cute. Wow!