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I know that it’s normal getting-up-and-moving-around time for a lot of you guys right now. All you East Coasters and Midwesterners, living in the future with your rocket cars and laser guns. Let’s not even talk about the people in Europe! Or other crazy places, like Hawaii or Australia! Who even knows what they do, living in Upside-Downtopia all the time? But for me and other West Coast monsters, it’s the crack of dawn, so let’s start off kind of slow and easy, okay?
Here’s an adorable fight between a weensy baby otter and a stuffed walrus.
If anyone knows someone who owns an otter, could to give me their contact information? I need to talk to them about trading lives.
Thanks to Werttrew for the tip, and for just being awesome.
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Oh how cute an otter, oh my god there are two otters and they’re playing with each other, my brain cannot process this, RIP Ian
This makes me feel so… well, this should explain it:
Looks like somebody got into the snake juice.
Everyone loves snakejuice!
snakejuice, snakejuice, snakejuice
That snake’s googly eyes and friendly smile are terrifying.
He could attack me any old time. (Note: I do not actually want to be attacked by an otter. Cutettacked, on the other hand, would be okay.)
He can’t actually attack you, unless you mean attack you with snuggles
BNPG – Otter Movies –
The Otter Guys
The Godfotter
Wotterworld
The Otter Sister
Stepbrotters
Glotter
Whotter Dreams May Come
Like Otter Like Son
Otter of the Bride
Some Like It Otter
O Brotter Where Otter Thou
Not Without My Dotter
Wait, haven’t we done this before?
Otter Darko
and yes
http://videogum.com/290821/best-new-party-game-49-ottermovies/franchises/best-new-party-game/
Is that starring Mark Walrusberg?
Well, my day has peaked. Might as well go back to bed.
You’re otter here?
I am so that walrus today. Coo coo ca BLEH.
I wish I owned an otter. How does one even care for an otter? What do they eat? Tater totters?
Depends! River otters eat fish. Oceanic otters eat mollusks. They are swimming weasels.
Every Tuesday night, I hang out at a dive bar near my home called the U Otter Stop In. This bar has cheap beer, karaoke every night, and murals of anthropomorphized otters all over the walls. Yet another object lesson in why the Midwest is the best. Mine is truly a charmed life.
Exactly.
Seriously, is there a particular reason why we haven’t all got these guys as pets? Who’s the resident zoologist here? I NEED ANSWERS.
The number one reason: they are wild animals and they are not nice, even though they are cute.
They are also pretty rare/endangered. There used to be otters from California to Alaska, but hunting drove most of the populations extinct. Their fur is so dense with hair it’s like the peachfuzz of an angel.
But really, it’s mostly that they are horrible killing machines that could mess you up. It’s easy to forget that they are weasels, like ferrets, skunks, and wolverines.
Sea otters eat mollusks and other marine invertebrates. They smack them around with rocks and then bite through the shell. They are basically crunching bone with their teeth. They have tremendously powerful jaws. Take your hand right off!
River otters are similar, but bigger. The Amazon river otter grows as large as a man (>5ft) and eats piranhas. They also hunt in packs. Live in packs. Doesn’t matter. Other river otters are smaller, but a think a little less social. Obligate carnivores either way. Sure, we’ve domesticated other carnivores, but only the terrestrial ones. Few people have the facilities (ie a backyard pond or ocean) to accommodate an otter.
Just get a ferret. The weird people who like them, LOVE them. I don’t understand the appeal and don’t entirely trust them to not steal my breath while I sleep. But they are slinky animals and that could be fun?
Sure, they look cute and tussle with each other, but what is that really? It’s practice. Practice for killing.
tl;dr they’d be horrible pets.
In conclusion:
Also doesn’t anyone remember this? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334154/William-Gibbons-Florida-teen-attacked-vicious-otter-films-furry-beast-lounging-lake.html
And finally to ruin your day completely, see the following: http://blogfishx.blogspot.com/2008/05/sea-otters-worse-than-seals-in-some.html
Well, that pic doesn’t prove anything. My cat looks just the same way when it opens its mouth and dives toward me about to sink its teeth into my flesh. Are you saying that cats aren’t good pets, too? Stop ruining the otter video for everyone!
My other comment is awaiting moderation because I’ve linked to an article describing how otters can be horrible.
Remember when that one totally attacked that kid filming it in Florida?
“Kid had it coming”-every otter everywhere.
I love having a resident biologist onhand!
I AM PLACATE. Thanks! And that totes reminds me, there was an hilarious and sweet otter story in the news in Ireland recently (with pics of the action) :
Village Terrorized by Termin-Otter
TERMINOTTER!!!
I could have done without the Rusted Root, but I agree that I think its time for the family to sit down and talk about getting at least one otter. Do otters eat cats, by the way?
Has it acquired a taste for mammal blood?
More importantly, have they acquired a taste for human SNUGGLES???? Because I am gonna give them SO MANY!
wait, that was Rusted Root? I just thought it was “magical medieval flute music” (that’s a genre, right?)
When I saw this video was over three minutes long, I was like, there is no way it can sustain itself if it is that long (which is also what she said) but then it did! BRAVO SURPRISE DOUBLE OTTER! Plus that slide-y trick? OMG.
I know, Zac. I have a ridiculously short attention span when it comes to Youtube videos, too, and almost always only make it through about 30 seconds. But this one really had the goods. It delivered the goods. It was good? BLOGGIN’!
So if I can find an otter before sundown, you’ll trade lives and I can be a Guest Blogger? I smell a wacky misadventure with criminal aspects coming up! If you need me, I’ll probably be at the zoo getting mauled by adorable tigers, everybody!
Supreme Court Justice Otter Stewart (1958-1981)
Seems less vicious than this evil otter. http://youtu.be/M3pOoHRJgfw