Post a picture of a baby animal. Give your resident Bertha a smile.

[Bertha Venation]

[Ptah]

1. a two-fer

:hi:

[applegrove]

42. Those are so cute. How could such sweeties grow up to be ruthless killing machines?

[Arugula Latte]

47. America's Number One Threat!

[alphafemale]

55. "Smell my finger."

:hide:

[av8rdave]

2. Previously posted, but here's one of my dogs earlier this year

[lukasahero]

3. First image from Google images search on 'baby animals'

[hippywife]

4. Little Lucy Loves Ms. Bertha.

:hug:

[Bertha Venation]

38. Bertha loves little Lucy back, hippywife

:hug: thank you

[lukasahero]

5. 15 y.o. pic but

it's the cutest one of my Lab when he was a little tiny pupster that I have:

[deucemagnet]

6. I'm sure there's a story behind this one.

[HopeHoops]

7. The hedgehog is giving that thing the hairy eyeball!

I bet someone got the stuffing kicked out of him right after that shot was taken.

[LynzM]

53. LOL!

Yeah, seriously! :rofl:

[Richardo]

8. Our new minischnauzer in May (about 8 weeks old):

This is the wallpaper on my cel phone.

On edit: This adorable little fluffball is currently dragging one of the cats across the kitchen floor by her cheek. I really don't know how the cat tolerates it, I'm surprised she hasn't laid open the dog's face yet. But, since she lets it go, I pronounce it hilarious.

[Bertha Venation]

9. oh, my god ---

ROFL I can picture it!

[joeybee12]

10. OMG! Give me my insulin shot!

These are just too, too sweet! :grouphug:

[sarge43]

11. "Eeeewwww, otter lips!"

[Demoiselle]

27. And otter ears, too! (Yum) Thank you all. nt

[Born_A_Truman]

12. Our new baby boy "Bo" 12 weeks

[Kali]

13. this is a few years old, and it reminds me I need to get a current one of her

[Bertha Venation]

18. What's her name?

Her head is almost as big as her body. Is it always that way with the calves?

[Kali]

22. Rosebud, from her finishing off my "Peace" rosebush that year.

partly it is the angle of the picture, but all babies are kinda big-headed I think. Here she is last summer as a two year old:






looking for a banana peel:

[Brother Buzz]

14. Five sleepy puppies

[seemunkee]

15. Three week old hedgehog

I think this one was 6 weeks

[guitar man]

16. baby sugar glider

:hi:

[dropkickpa]

17. I have lots!!

Baby chipmunk


Baby aardvark


Baby loris


Baby Agatha

[EndersDame]

19. I think the cutness of puppies is an evolutionary trait

I think it is a big reason we put up with their shit. My own little pup at 8 weeks

[LynzM]

54. I agree!!

You just look at them and you can't *really* stay mad... :D Too cute, yours!

[Bertha Venation]

20. THANK YOU EVERYONE

:loveya:

[Ikonoklast]

21. The latest batch of ferals we found homes for.

We kept the little black one, a male, and named him Thomas. He has become my son's little shadow.

[BuelahWitch]

23. Two of my Persian Tisha's babies

Boo Boo


Mitzi



This is not one of Tisha's babies, but it looks like one:

[Hell Hath No Fury]

24. OK, I went a little crazy --

http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/world/gallery/2008/aug/08/1/[e-mail]

[blogslut]

25. Baby Red Pandas!

Also known as Firefoxes:

Very young:



A little bit older:



Still babies but now their coats have turned red:

[seemunkee]

30. I love the red pandas

They moved them at the National zoo in DC. I liked their old location because they were close and easy to find. Now they're over with the giant pandas and further away from visitors.

[BlueJazz]

26. Baby Chinchilla

[NMDemDist2]

28. I saw one of these yesterday on the way home from work. it's not a baby but very cool anyway

The name "ringtail" comes from the seven or eight black rings on the animal’s tail. Although they are not related to cats, people have referred to them as miner’s cat (historically appreciated as a mouser), civet cat (because of pungent secretion from anal glands), and cacomistle (an Aztec Nahuatl term meaning half mountain lion). Along with raccoons and coatimundis, ringtails are members of the Procyonidae (raccoon) family. The scientific name, Bassariscus astusus, comes from bassar (fox), isc (little), and astut (cunning).

Description

If one were to design a climbing animal to exploit the desert’s cracks, ledges and vertical cliffs, the ringtail might be it. Their considerable tail provides balance for negotiating narrow ledges and limbs, even allowing them to reverse directions by performing a cartwheel. They can rotate their hind feet 180 degrees, giving them purchase for rapidly descending cliffs or trees as well as cacti. Furthermore, ringtails can ascend narrow passages by stemming (pressing all feet on one wall and their back against the other or pressing both right feet on one wall and both left feet on the other), and wider cracks or openings by ricocheting between the walls.

The body is compact and sleek with an elongated, pointed muzzle. Dark brown to black hairs surround the large eyes, creating a prominent mask. Large grayish-brown ears are edged in white. A ringtail’s total length ranges between 24 and 32 inches with a tail length of 12 to 17 inches. They weigh from 30 to 39 ounces.

Vocalizations include squeaks, metallic chirps, whimpers, chitters, chucking, hisses, grunts, growls and ululations.


:hi:

[Bertha Venation]

29. You SAW one of these?

Does it (do you) live in a desert? (Well, NM . . . duh)

[NMDemDist2]

31. yeah, we don't see them often since they are shy and night critters

but there it was right on the road and since it was dark and quiet it stood there a few minutes and i got a really good look at it!!

what a cutie it was too LOL

and since I work in a protected wildlife area I see lots of critters every night but sighting one of these is a treat

:hi:

[Deep13]

32. okay

[Kadie]

33. An orangutan born July 10

This photo provided by the Audubon Zoo shows Menari, an orangutan born July 10 at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, July 21, 2009. The zoo announced her birth Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009. Starting Sept. 26, Menari will be out daily from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. — weather permitting.
(AP Photo/Jeff Strout, Audubon Zoo)


Just found this pic this morning. So glad to have a place to post it. :)

:hi:

[sarge43]

34. She's a Niner, lots of good fortune. n/t

[MajorChode]

35. Smaller than a blackberry fruit

[Bertha Venation]

36. WOW!

[AngryAmish]

37. I'm dead serious - this is the best DU thread ever

I need insulin.

[myrna minx]

39. Baby squirrel.

Awwww....

[pokerfan]

40. ~

[alphafemale]

41. Here's my favorite SQUEE! Brace Yourself

[sarge43]

46. I Am Floppy Ear the Terrible - Destroyer of Worlds and I love Ms Bertha. n/t

[Arugula Latte]

52. Oh holy jebus that is unbearably cute!

[applegrove]

43. Here is a picture of my Twilight when she was a kitten with Monster.

[crim son]

44. She's a little bit blurry but she is still my wee baby.

Freyja, when we first got her last year, about this time.

[sarge43]

45. "I love you too, Mommy."

[Arugula Latte]

48. Here's an odd one ... Some sort of hairless primate, I'm guessing. Not as cute as the fuzzy ones:

[Bertha Venation]

49. Ew!

J/K. A beautiful baby mammal.

[sarge43]

56. I understand they're quite cuddly and smell nice. n/t

[Ikonoklast]

60. Oh, sure, they're cute when they're little.

I heard they get real big and surly after a few years.

And legally, once you get one of those things, you're stuck with feeding it for eighteen years.

[sarge43]

61. Worse, even after you throw them out, no matter how many times you move,

they keep finding you again. They squat on the porch, whine and howl until you let them camp out in the extra room.

[Ikonoklast]

62. Well, you *could* use the hose on them, if they're old enough.

It works sometimes, other times, if they're hungry enough and it's pizza night, it just won't do a thing except get them wet.

What's even worse is after they mate and reproduce, they always show up just around dinner time on Sundays. The instinct in those critters is uncanny.

[sarge43]

63. When they're wet, they smell gross. Funny how they change that way.

Yeah, they know instinctively you'll go "aaaawwww" over their offspring and the whole cycle starts again. Within two generations every pizza night your street is filled with lunched out pickups and a raving mob of your DNA is turning your lawn into a mud bog.

Adopt a dog; you get them fixed.

[Lucy Goosey]

50. My former foster kittens

Murphy and Molly:



(They were adopted together after they were through with foster-care - yay!)

[Highway61]

51. My little Angel

She was orphaned and rescued this summer

[Bertha Venation]

57. BEST THREAD EVER

DUers :yourock:

[sarge43]

58. Just for you, Bertha

An aaaawwwww video, these babies can cause a diabetic coma

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcn5haJpKAQ&feature=related

[JonLP24]

59. I don't have a camera but here is one

[lildreamer316]

64. One of my faves:

[hippywife]

65. Baby Gorilla. Awwww....

http://xmb.stuffucanuse.com/xmb/viewthread.php?action=attachment&tid=4517&pid=14693

Hmmm...pic won't post.