August 18, 2004

• Now I feel all warm and fuzzy and optimistic. Curse you, LordSludge.
• A compassionate fellow, this Hogan. Worthy of a big hand of bananas.
• Awwww, indeed. Doggies rock.
• so. . . cute. . . can't. . . breathe. . . losing. . . consciousness. . . must. . . focus
• (they think the doe might have been hit by a car) Quite possible, but what can also happen is that the doe will leave her faun in a hiding spot while she goes foraging, and people sometimes stumble across the fauns and wrongly assume they've been abandoned. I hope they waited awhile before taking it in to give the doe a chance to come back, because once humans have made contact with a faun the doe will usually abandon it.
• faun = fawn. me = need coffee.
• I can't think of what arouses a warm feeling in me more, this or hilicopter fcuk.
• Sorry to offend, LordSludge. I got the same email forward last week and couldn't believe the cuteness level. What I thought was interesting is that the dog is male and is nurturing this fawn. Is that normal behavior for male dogs?
• That's so cute, I feel like I want to go out and break something.
• O to have a little faun -- So much cheaper to feed than a big one! He could bed in a basket of leaves In the kitchen -- There I could hear his hoofs tapping o'er The linoleum floor. He would, no doubt, be impish, spritely, And the collie (who is two) and I would love him mightily Whatever he should do.
• Kinda related -- my boss has just inherited a box o' kittens, barely a week old, that would otherwise have been abandoned by some arsehole in a dumpster. Her dog, a mini-bulldog spastic lookin thing, has adopted them -- she licks them clean and generally does all the motherly things a doggy would do except feed them. (Although I secretly suspect she's just *tasting* them.) Anyhow, I'll try to snap some pics while they're still tiny and cute.
• mmmmm, tastes like kitten
• It's been happening for some years now *warning self-link*
• Argh, that picture generated my first true spit-take in months. es el queso, you made me laugh, too. Wow. Dogs, deer, and humor. I love MoFi.
• /ignore Wedge :(
• *hands over conciliatory banana* Cheer up Wedge. You provided a moment of sweet respite in the middle of that trainwrecked, poo-filled thread. And then we got distracted by the baby otter.
• Rhodesian Ridgeback
• "...the dog is male and is nurturing this fawn. Is that normal behavior for male dogs?" I don't know how common it is, MsVader, but years ago our dog, a male, adopted a bunch of baby raccoons he'd found somewhere. He carried them all onto our back porch, made a nest for them in his blanket, and only let us near them to feed them. They all turned out fine, grew up and left, and would occasionally stop back in to visit (the dog, not us). It was especially odd, given that the dog had previously shown an enthusiastic disdain for raccoons.
• Ah, what you all see as cute, I see as a dog raising up his own dinner. He'd hardly want to eat it now. It's much too scrawny. In a few weeks/months though, it'll be a hearty meal! I'm sorry. That was bad. I just couldn't resist.
• I myself was raised by a ripe cantaloupe and some dwarf bunt fungus.