Attention truth-seekers! Regardless of what those wet blankets at the so-called Concerned Children’s Advertisers* would like you to believe, house hippos are real! They walk among us, even invading the sanctity of our showers! Friends, we cannot allow the truth to be suppressed! Share this with your friends while you can!
* We keed — it’s a good cause. Via Reddit user pitloun.
I’m on the list for both the house hippo and the lap giraffe. So far I’m stuck with my furry, fuzzy kitten who purrs and nuzzles my nose.
Which is ok, I can stand this a little longer.
Kar, perhaps you would like this moose? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbLQTLRpXek
OMGosh! The leetle hoof splashes in the puddle!!!
That’s amazing. My #1 concern would be getting ticks in my bed though. #2 Concern, well, you can imagine: Merry p*ss moose and crappy poo deer.
A moose bit my sister once.
A moose pooped on me once.
And you’re bragging about it. Oh Skippymom.
It was truly a life-altering experience.
sk’mom: is that what brought about your affection for All Things Poopy ??
Would you like to tell us about it?
Guys, I’m not really ready to say much about it yet. Maybe after a couple more years of therapy I’ll be able to share the details.
Er ner, merse perp!
Um, so anyway you all know that was a joke, right? I’ve never been close enough to a moose to be pooped on. Please don’t hate me!
*shocked at the sheer betrayal, runs to her room and slams the door.*
Y’all are nuts! (Don’t ever change!)
Awwww, I want one. He’d go well with my lap bird (a/k/a Umbrella Cockatoo).
I want to nom those rubbery little ears!
Hmm, could it be that the title of this post was the subject line of the email submission? It has that “HEY MEG READ THIS ONE NOW IT’S URGENT” vibe. LOL.
Nope, I think that’s NTMTOM with his finger on the pulse, as usual.
Eeek! Too adorable!
I want to carry around a mini-hippo in my handbag, the way others carry tiny dogs! My attempt to “out-Paris-Hilton” Paris Hilton…
Hippo feet alert! Hippo feet alert! Splort-worthy! *splort*
Next to giraffe lips, hippo feet are the cutest random animal body parts!
I gots to agree. Love the overall blorpitude and the nubbly earses but the toe splayage is keeling me! ♥♥♥
Can you even imagine a world without our animal friends?? No, I can’t either.
Seeing hippo toes in real life is on my bucket list ^_^
An admirable goal, Ivasic. I saw hippos when I was in S.Africa … but they were all shy and/or hot and wouldn’t come out of their bathing pools. So no toes for me.
Bummer
I’d go crazy if I got to see one. Even more crazy than the time I was in Finland and saw a baby reindeer! I freaked out, called my mom on my cell to tell her about said reindeer and the Finns at the zoo laughed at me. It was soooo adorable!
Look up the definition of the word ‘Blorp’ in the dictionary and you’ll find this photo! Too cyoot!!
It saddens me that house hippos only live in the Eastern half of the US!
I live in New England and trust me, we ain’t got no house hippos (if it turns out we do I will be seriously bummed).
…although some of the moquitos here are bigger than that hippo….
sigh. I mean *mosquitoes*.
Oy
Oh, bummer. I was thinking the “moquitos” to which you referred were a summer cocktails that got you buzzed.
Especially large in Joisey, where they get named.
*stifles giggles*
Also…isn’t this one kinda large?
I have been in love with baby pygmy hippos since I first encountered Monifa, years ago…if the lil’ feets don’t get ya, the tiny round ears will! And when they submerge, they blow bubbles…
Here’s the link to CO’s first post on Monifa, who also showed up on the ZooBorns site and other places… http://cuteoverload.com/2008/11/07/warshing-mini-s/
He looks bemused.
Full-on Blorpage, for real.
Actchully I fink this is what happens when you put blorp on the hot cycle in your clothes dryer.
Eggplant with legs FTW!
I’m still waiting for my Petite Lap Giraffe!
Baby hippos (pygmy hippos in particular) kinda remind me of skinny guinea pigs
~ Very a similar blorpitude factor and shape
When I first saw that commercial I wanted house hippos. I DEMANDED house hippos. I couldn’t believehow unfair it was that some houses had house hippos and mine did not.
* btw, I was over forty at the time
jessicavye, at the age of 40 you are more than capable of giving all the TLC a house hippo would need. Really mean and selfish of your family not to get one for you, stat!
Every single Christmas and on my every birthday I have only one gift request to my boyfriend: I want a pony. (Nowadays he just asks what I want in addition to the pony). Anyways, I’m starting to think he’ll never buy me one, although it would fit perfectly to the balcony of our flat… TIme to go easy on him and just ask for a house hippo!
Petite Lap Giraffe would be nice too, but I’m already on the waiting list. Literally. I signed it, interested to see what kind of spam or info they’d send. Still waiting for my new PLG.
Hippo is puzzled.
“Are you my mummy? ‘Cos if so, your feets is the wrong shape”.