Cute stuff goes here; you have been warned!

[TNT]

The World's Cutest Kitten?
http://gma.yahoo.com/photos/is-this-the ... slideshow/

So... cute!

[Ann]

She's just totally adorable!!!!

So her owners are Japanese. Cats are very popular in Japan. There are even cat cafés there, where you can pat a cat while you drink your latte! Here's a picture from a cat café, which looks more like a bar with cats to me.

Ann

[MargaritaMc]

The World's Cutest Kitten?
http://gma.yahoo.com/photos/is-this-the ... slideshow/

They are marvellous photos - and the photographer ISN'T professional!

And Daisy, the kitten, is --- well, she just sets the Gold Standard in Adorable and in Cute...

Margarita

[MargaritaMc]

I've just found this by accident on Imgur.
M

[Ann]

AWWWWWW!!!

Ann

[Ann]

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Posted by Laura Hensley

This thread has been languishing in limbo for a relativley long time. Long time, no see. Isn't it time to revive it? When you look at this kitten... don't you feel that some people love kittens because they are so much like little human tots?

Ann

[geckzilla]

[Beyond]

I don't mean to get-your-goat, geckzilla, but to me, that goats not cute. But it does look contented.

[geckzilla]

Aw, it's ok goaty goat, I love you and think you are adorable even if Beyond can't see it.

[Beyond]

Adorable, i can probably stretch to, if not somewhat on the low end of adorable. It's the 'cute' part that i just can't get to.

[neufer]

Adorable, i can probably stretch to, if not somewhat on the low end of adorable.
It's the 'cute' part that i just can't get to.

You place cute above adorable
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Adorable, a. [L. adorabilis, fr. adorare: cf. F. adorable.]

• 1. Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors.
  2. Worthy of the utmost love or respect.

Cute, a. [An abbrev. of acute.] Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning.

• 1. Clever or shrewd often in an underhanded manner
  2. Attractive or pretty especially in a childish, youthful, or delicate way
  3. Obviously straining for effect

[geckzilla]

To be fair I also think jumping spiders and a good portion of hymenoptera are cute.

[neufer]

To be fair I also think jumping spiders and a good portion of hymenoptera are cute.

[b][color=#0000FF][size=150]Loxosceles laeta[/size][/color][/b]

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<<Loxosceles laeta is a cousin of the brown recluse spider, but larger and more venomous. Sometime in the late nineteen-sixties, apparently, their ancestors had ridden to California in costume crates owned by a troupe of Shakespearean actors from Brazil. A year or two later, they were discovered at a theatre in the L.A. suburb of Sierra Madre and promptly triggered a citywide panic. "50 DEADLY SPIDERS FOUND," a front-page headline in the Los Angeles Times announced on June 7, 1969. "VENOM LIKE RATTLESNAKES." Infestations have been reported in Vancouver, British Columbia, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Florida. The serious bites form a necrotising ulcer that destroys soft tissue and may take months, and very rarely, years to heal, leaving deep scars. The damaged tissue will become gangrenous and eventually slough away.>>

[Ann]

What a brave man! (Or not.)

Personally I find snakes very beautiful, although I don't think they are cute. But I don't find spiders attractive one way or another. On the other hand, I do realize that they are important in regulating the overall balance in nature, by catching so many insects.

Ann

[Beyond]

To be fair I also think jumping spiders and a good portion of hymenoptera are cute.

Yeah! Little jumping spiders are cute. Big ones, not so cute, but very interesting when you see them jump at a fly and catch it.
Don't know what hymenoptera are as yet. I may get around to looking it up... but probably not.

[Beyond]

What a brave man! (Or not.)

Personally I find snakes very beautiful, although I don't think they are cute. But I don't find spiders attractive one way or another. On the other hand, I do realize that they are important in regulating the overall balance in nature, by catching so many insects.

Ann

I like pictures of snakes, but don't really care to be around them for real. Pictures are a lot safer!

[geckzilla]

Snakes are cute, especially baby snakes or just tiny snakes in general. Or vine snakes. But they look cute in a freaky way.

[Ann]

Indeed, that one is both freaky and cute!

Ann

[BMAONE23]

To be fair I also think jumping spiders and a good portion of hymenoptera are cute.

I like the large furry Black & Yellow Bumbly variety

[stephen63]

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

[MargaritaMc]

Beautiful singing - should enter for
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=31401

[Beyond]

Ever see a cat just give up?
http://www.break.com/index/ever-seen-a- ... up-2442446

[Ann]

Poor cat! I'm glad its owner finally came to her senses.

Ann

[geckzilla]

I've always wondered why a band around a cat's chest or abdomen immobilizes it. I had a few ideas but nothing to be sure about.

[MargaritaMc]

I've always wondered why a band around a cat's chest or abdomen immobilizes it. I had a few ideas but nothing to be sure about.

How very strange. I didn't know that it would - never having dreamed of trying it on any of our cats (who won't even tolerate collars.)
I presume it's something to do with kitten behaviour to go limp when picked up in its mother's mouth - but that wouldn't be a band around the middle.

What ideas do you have, Geckzilla?

Margarita