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Nightmare fuel or aww? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to c/raccoons@lemmy.world
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[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I believe the correct term is awwtf.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

This is exactly it. Thank you, I now have a new word for this feeling.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 23 points 10 months ago

I did my best from my phone

[–] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Someone needs to make that poor baby a sweater!

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Omg, as a knitter I thought the same thing. Can you imagine how adorable it would look?

[–] Maddie@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Awwww! I want to pick her up and give her all the cuddles!!

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think I do too. Look at its big flabby belly!

[–] MarmaladeMermaid@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thought they were all fluffy and most kinda fit looking under their luxurious coats. All that dumpster climbing and scurrying. That’s a pudgy lil trash panda. Now I kinda want to see a naked panda.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And I don't think you are ready for naked baboons...

[–] MarmaladeMermaid@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You are correct, I will not recover from the baboon nipples.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It really is the nipples, isn't it. Just terrifying.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, 100% cute only

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How does that even happen?

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My guess would be alopecia.

Here's the note from the original source of the photo:

Background: A friend of a friend took pictures periodically every time she'd spot this little creature from her Toronto apartment complex. It went from being a furry ginger to being smooth as a baby's ass, largely over the winter.

[–] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Over the winter?! Now I really want someone to make it a sweater. :( Poor baby

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Thanks. I was afraid someone had shaved the little guy.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Weird! I would have guessed that its entire body would be black the way that its paws are, but it looks like only the normally hairless parts are black.

[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That just means that all the clothes I make him wear are for his protection, not just for my own personal enjoyment Beth, no it's not animal abuse, he's a cute little fireman!

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

No more or less weird than a hairless cat. Definitely not something you see everyday though.

Cute for whatever it's worth, but yeah I'm with the other commenter that said it needs a sweater haha!

[–] yimo@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What is seen cannot be unseen.. Though it's kinda cute I won't lie

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Imagine how smooth and warm it would be if you held it.

[–] callyral@pawb.social 5 points 10 months ago

it looks like a tiny pig

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's so fucked up!

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I'm guessing you're in the "nightmare fuel" camp then 😂

[–] Femcowboy@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Silly dude

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

Nightmare awww. Cute asf but may tear off faces.