Puffy Powers Are Go!

Faster than a speeding puff pastry!


Chicklet teh Squirrel was rescued by Heather and photographed by Lynn T. Chicklet suffered head trauma as a baby and is half the size of other grey squirrels but twice as round (even though she’s on a strict diet.) Chicklet’s admirers call her the ‘Perfectly Spherical Squirrel.’

78 comments … read them below or add one

  1. Bashful says:

    Whoa. Squirrel be tryin’ to imitate my cat. “Yer doin it rite.”

  2. Miriam says:

    Perfect caption Pyrit! Chicklet is obviously the fourth lesser known Powerpuff girl, who’s secret power is to (literally) bowl people over with her fluffy roundness. Those wittle paws are just itching to save the world.

    • 4leafclover says:

      Powerpuff Squirrel!

    • Stosh ( keeper of the King of Costa Rica) says:

      If Chicklet falls over , she’ll roll until she hits a wall….
      I LOVE Her….A face plant from Chicklet–will knock your teeh out…Ha!

  3. Theresa says:

    8O

  4. Winston says:

    chubby… BUT it is cute

  5. Angel says:

    She’s not fat–she’s fluffy!

  6. Stellar says:

    Oh Em Gee it is a real-life Squishable! (www.squishable.com)

  7. Mary (the first) says:

    I like that excuse.. “head trauma as a baby”. I might use that one myself! Even though I am not this cute. :(

  8. warrior rabbit says:

    Now that is roly poly.

  9. Heather says:

    You know the saying “I’m not overweight, just under-tall”? Chicklet actually gets to be under-tall! Jealous.

  10. Kar says:

    … must.refrain.from.Jabba.the.hutt.jokes…

    ho ho ho

  11. Andi from NC says:

    The hovertext was such a delicious treat!!!

  12. OMG it´s so fluffy I´m gonna die!

  13. Lucy's Mommeh says:

    All I could think was…..Angry Birds..the skwerls invade! Instead of pigs, we has skwerls!!

  14. Paul says:

    This squirrel definitely needs a wafer-thin mint.

    • Berg says:

      Bring me a bucket, Paul!

      I think that Chicklet and I are related. And I love the nickname “Perfectly Spherical Squirrel.” Perhaps I can be the “Perfectly Spherical Berg?”

    • dub1 says:

      CO has the best peeps: where else could one find “festooned”, “skwerl!” and “weffair-theen meent,” all in one day? :-)

  15. RJ says:

    Yeah, but she has a great personality.

  16. Gigi says:

    She’s so fat, when she sits around the house.
    She sits AROUND the house.
    http://instantrimshot.com/index.php?sound=rimshot

  17. Marshwiggle says:

    That, my friends, is the epitome of rotund.

  18. Rachael says:

    “You’re Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.”

    “I *am* big. It’s the *pictures* that got small. “

  19. Guinea Peeg Lover says:

    Oh….. mah…… gah…… I have NEVER seen a squirrel that round.

  20. Juno says:

    “It’s huge! It’s enormous! It’s gigantic! I mean, they said it was big, but I didn’t expect it to be BIG!”

  21. Fird Birfle says:

    *ahem*

    http://www.popartuk.com/g/l/lgpp31900+stay-puft-ghostbusters-poster.jpg

    (somebody referenced this image the other day. Sorry, I feel too much
    the lazy bum today, to relocate who ’twas. Perhaps skippymom? victoreia?)

  22. freetomato says:

    Recently, while playing Scrabble, I accidentally discovered a wonderful word in the dictionary, one that I now regularly use to describe my Boxer/Chow pup who jiggly and well-padded (and perfect, according to the vet). That word is “fubsy” ( http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fubsy )

    This, my friends, is a fubsy squirrelio!

    • Miriam says:

      Fubsy totally needs to become part of daily CO terminology. Someone add it to the glossary stat!

      FUBSY, I lub it.

  23. Becky, Bubba'smom says:

    Are we sure that Chicklet isn’t with squirrelettes? She needs my pommie to chase her around the backyard for awhile. Send her over.

  24. blair says:

    (slo-mo voice) ssss….qqqq….uuuu….iiiii….rrrr….rrrr….eeee….llll….llll….

    all the dogs look, then look away so as not to be seen as wanting to cause embarassment by staring, except the poodle-cut poodles, who just say, “Oh. My. Ghod.”

  25. Skul says:

    Little squirrel is gravitationally challanged.

  26. ShadowL says:

    My mom has a collection of squirrel figurines in various sizes that are round squirrels.

    We call them her Buddah Squirrels!

    I WISH i could rub Chicklets bellah!

  27. Rosewolf says:

    Cute!

    It’s a Popple!

    • Me, Echo! says:

      Ooh Rosewolf you brought up the subject o’ popples.I have only seen Peanut the original popple.I have the C.O. calender an he’s in eet.I thinks i like popples cause’ they is sooo popple-y

  28. Dona says:

    No weigh!

  29. M. Dale says:

    “Head trauma as a baby”…yeah, I’m using that as my next weight-loss-failure excuse. It would explain so many other things, too…

  30. Zippy says:

    Chicklet darlin’, we’re laughing with you, not at you! :)

    Poor baby – that must have been some kinda head trauma to mess with her (I guess, I’m no biologist) endocrine system and make her so, erm, spherical. It does make her pretty darn cute, though.

  31. Zippy says:

    Um, this is my first experience of the Moderation Lounge. Not sure what it was I said, but maybe it means I get a free drink???? Or maybe just a nap on the couch, which would be fine for my sleep-deprived self . . .

    • victoreia says:

      I think they tucked a martini bar in a corner, somewhere……

    • Me, Echo! says:

      I have been getting mods. all day, like every comment i’ve done !I did’unt do any thing !!! i really wonder why everyones going into mod. today…

  32. Fird Birfle says:

    “Blorp” Tag, pweeze?

  33. Barb says:

    Sad/cute, all the way!

  34. Elsa says:

    Chicklet? No. I will call you Chublet.

  35. Amanda Phillips says:

    Looks like a tribble to me..wheres cappin Kirk!

  36. Fleurdamour says:

    He’s a perfect squircle.

  37. Chris says:

    Finally we can apply some physics to squirrels:D:D

  38. andygal says:

    IT’S ADORABLE *melts*

  39. Janet says:

    I think that squirrel has liver damage. Wow that guys big!