Hibernation

FURRY FRIDAY ON SATURDAY

In Germany it's known as Overwintering...



... dormice do it ...



... beautiful humans do it ...

HIBERNATION!

WISHING Y'ALL A CHARMING WEEKEND!

Bunnies

FURRY FRIDAY ON SATURDAY

I purloined this from Janice who also does this meme... so it's Janice's idea, OK

Cooo, furry and cute!

Rabbits love nibbling things...

WISHING Y'ALL A CHEERY WEEKEND!

Furry Rodents

FURRY FRIDAY ON SATURDAY


a cute foreign mouse from Zyra

if this critter isn't a chipmunk then it's a wild American ground squirrel

Russian hamsters are mini furrz killing machines

black-footed ferret in the wild

brown rats can be very brave, this one wants the big cat's dinner

British squirrels used to be red, until naughty imported American greys took over!


WISHING Y'ALL A WONDERFUL WEEKEND

Tigers

FURRY FRIDAY


Not all tigers are fearsome all the time...


They like going for a bask...


... they remind me of big house-cats really...

WISHING Y'ALL A FANTASTIC WEEKEND!

Furry Friday A Day Late as per always

FURRY FRIDAY ON SATURDAY
HEY I FOUND SOMETHING FURRY!!!
Googled something furry there y'are haven't a clue what it is but there y'have it.

I was gonna do a poem. Sonnets quatrains couplets gimme a break

There's a LOT of mental deleting going on here. Hang on gimme a sec, let me focus. An alarm on my fone set 9:30am set me OFOFFFFFFFF OFF LIKE A UFO woooooooooooh!!!!! hi hi hi hi hi! hello everyone HELLO EVERYONE HELLO!!

right here we go

o shit i can't stop laughing

i'll try later. i'[ll compose myself then i'll compose the poem

and yes/no for all u worried about me i will go in the nutterynutnutnuthouse before i ever do anything stupid cupid (would i shoot my self through the heart with an anrrow?) I don't think so here we go lets go im going goin g GONE

back later

African Pygmy Hedgehog

FURRY FRIDAY ON SATURDAY


I'd really like one of these


Aren't they cute?


Even cats like them






Hedgehogs aren't the exotic pets here they are in some countries, as they're very common wildlife. Everybody has seen a wild hedgehog, many people feed them with catfood:



To an actual cat they're a real curiosity and a bit too prickly for food



The hedgehogs we have in our British gardens are about two to three times larger and very commonly seen.

WISHING Y'ALL A CHARMING WEEKEND. IF IT CAN'T BE CHARMING THEN MAY IT BE TOLERABLE!

Panda Entertainment

FURRY FRIDAY!


MULTIPLE-SNEEZING PANDA



PANDA SNEEZE
This one's an all-time classic:



PANDA RIPS OFF MAN'S JACKET IN CHINESE ZOO



PANDA HIGHLY IRRITATED AT FALLING OUT OF TREE



PANDA CUBS BEING REALLY ENTERTAINING TO AMERICAN NEWS REPORTER



PANDA GETS STUNG BY A WASP



PANDA ATTACKS TOURIST



GIANT PANDA DOES HANDSTAND
David Attenborough, BBC Wildlife:

Bears

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK is on. No wonder I'm depressed. A mad guy living with bears is on the other channel. Black bears. Why do they never live with teddybears ~ proper brown ones? Brown bears are far cuter, not to mention tubbier. O hang on I think one's doing a poo in the woods.

Those black bears are barely any bigger than a domestic dog! They're tiny.

Now I must go. I ate an Iceland steak pie and I'm in a bad mood.

Kiwis

FRUITY/FEATHERY FRIDAY/SATURDAY


A KIWI is a fruit containing several times the vitamin C of most citrus fruits


KIWIS are the national bird of New Zealand


NEW ZEALAND, where the Lord of the Rings was filmed


KIWI BIRDS are flightless and feature the characteristic huge beak


KIWIS are shy and retiring. They like hiding in hollow treetrunks and here they build their nests


PROVIDED they're not shot at, chased or otherwise treated cruelly, they can get very tame


THE little Kiwi chooks are well known for being vicious and evil. Here's a police photo of one just before it was arrested for pecking to death 3 young kids in a primary school playground....


... AND IF YOU BELIEVE THAT you really will believe anything!

WISHING Y'ALL A PUKKA WEEKEND

Bowerbirds

If they were human they might collect beer mugs or stamps


There are 20 types of bowerbird


They collect anything that catches their eye: beetles' wing cases, bottle-tops, even deer dung


They arrange these outside the bower to attract a mate


Some even "borrow" clothes pegs (colour-co-ordinated, of course)


Bowerbirds come from Northern Australia and New Guinea


Some more traditionally minded birds prefer flower petals and blossom to plastic implements

DAVID ATTENBOROUGH:

Dunnarts

FURRY FRIDAY ~ SATURDAY


Dunnarts are the tiny warriors of the Australian outback


There are 10 species of Dunnart. This is the fat-tailed dunnart Sminthopsis crassicaudata


Although they're tiny and shy, they love fighting with deadly spiders!


Their favourite breakfast is a "juicy" scorpion, sting bitten off


They also love biting human fingers, the swines!


The dunnart breeding season is so intense ... lasting about 2 weeks ...


That afterwards the males die of exhaustion. A new generation replaces them!



Some idiot introduced the European Red Fox to Australia. This, and the common house cat, are hunting the poor little darlings almost to extinction.

WISHING Y'ALL A CHEERY WEEKEND.
IF IT CAN'T BE CHEERY THEN MAY IT BE PAINLESS.
IF NOT PAINLESS THEN MAY IT BE TOLERABLE.
TAKE CARE EVERYONE ;-)

Pets, past and future ~

These are some pets I'd most like to have... and actually have had.

FURRY FRIDAY ON SATURDAY


Akitas are one of the oldest pure-breeds of dog in the world. The American Akita was taken back from Japan by American troops after World War II. It is bigger and furrier than its Japanese counterpart. Whenever I see one down the local park, I want to kidnap it. One came up and stared me right in the eyes. I was down on the grass, so we were eye to eye. She just stared into me. Very intense. Akitas are loyal and dignified and very Japanese. Similar in character to Alsatians or Rottweilers. They are used in Japan as police dogs. I have never heard one bark.


An idea of their size!


The puppies are well known for being savage and wild. This is pretty obvious when you take a look at one:


My favourite little dogs are Norwich terriers. If I got a small dog I wouldn't care too much about breed. The type I'm on about tends to show up in Rescue Home catalogues named "Scruffy". If you've seen "Scruffy", you know the dog I want. Every animal shelter has a Scruffy.


Chinchillas look like rabbits from Mars. They need a big cage, a huge wheel and a "marble", that is, a stone slab you can stick in the freezer for them to lie on in summer. Chinchillas come from the high Andes and do not enjoy temperatures much above 75F, 25C.


The best pets I ever had were roborovski hamsters. These come from Mongolia. They're a totally different breed to ordinary hamsters (2in/5cm fully grown, pingpong ball-sized when curled up). They are the smallest and fastest hammies in the world.


Unlike ordinary hamsters, which fight when kept together, robos are highly social. They sleep in a heap:


They do everything together. But they're easily startled, don't tame at all easily and don't like being handled. They ping off on the floor at the first opportunity, have taken me 2-4 days to recapture. Imagine a wild house mouse on speed and you're still not close! Aren't they cute ...

WISHING Y'ALL A CHARMING WEEKEND. IF IT CAN'T BE CHARMING, THEN MAY IT BE TOLERABLE.

Red Squirrels

FURRY FRIDAY (ACTUALLY ON FRIDAY; FOR A CHANGE)....
In Continental Europe, squirrels are still red:


Here in Britain, our squirrels are American greys, introduced in the 19th Century most probably as "cute pets". I have only once seen red squirrels in the wild, in Regents Park, by London Zoo, when I was about eight years old. Almost all British squirrels are now the bigger and more aggressive greys.


Red squirrels are nowadays seen only in children's books and associated merchandise, like this Beatrix Potter teapot:


Forever lost in the UK:







WISHING Y'ALL A WONDERFUL WEEKEND~! :-)