Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/07/22/otter-cant-sleep-without-hug.html
…
22 Likes
I’m not sure if this is just synonymous with being an otter; but that’s clearly an aqueous bliss weasel.
22 Likes
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww 
18 Likes
Kawaii!!!
21 Likes
My significant other’s reaction: “I don’t know if I want to the be the cat or the otter!”
22 Likes
Geez, I needed that. Thanks @xeni.
17 Likes
Cute as can be, but. “Caretaker” is a quaint term. Looks for all the world like a pet owner. That’s how the owner describes themselves. No to wild animals kept as pets. Xeni, I think you know better.
4 Likes
Kitten-Hugging Otter is my spirit animal.
20 Likes
Sakura: “I am a cat.”
Mochi: “I am an otter.”
12 Likes
Super “SQUEE!”
Also:
22 Likes
Maybe that’s my problem too. I need to get a kitten (or a really big otter to spoon me… The Kitteh looked the sleepiest…)
14 Likes
Otter can’t sleep without hugging a kitten
Same here. Although full-size kittehs are more chill.
11 Likes
Awww, my favorite kind of snooze: the snuggle-snooze.
7 Likes
I took mine back to the pet store and asked why my ferret was so fat, but he assured me that it was just a more exotic species of ferret.
5 Likes
Mustelid moggy magnificence 
8 Likes
He otter be proud of himself.
12 Likes
I’ve been wondering for a while, why is it that we’re always told that keeping a wild animal as a pet is inhumane, dangerous, irresponsible and usually illegal, yet the internet is chock-fucking-full of videos of household raccoons, panthers, otters, sloths, skunks, owls, foxes, squirrels, elephants, giant squid, etc. etc., almost all of whom look adorable and happy and healthy as can be?
I’m not even trying to imply that we’ve been lied to, because wild animals as pets being a bad idea makes intuitive sense to me, but things simply aren’t adding up here.
Sure it wasn’t a filigree Siberian hampster?
6 Likes
I think a lot of the people who have these things as pet, that is who they are and their life resolves around the pets, no holidays no going away, no staying out drinking, they are the wild cat lady and that is they can be. Its like thehyena boys of Nigeria, its not just a commitment its a way of life, and you live the for that animal, which most people can not do.
6 Likes
They generally don’t post cute videos of the raccoon that was put down after biting their toddler in the face. Or the sad, backyard bare-earth kennel banishment because they won’t stop shitting in the house.
Tiger King was a pretty decent example of what happens with bigger wild animals kept as “pets”.
Domestication really does take centuries of selective breeding for temperament.
5 Likes
