RELAX, people

[urbpan]

It's a hairless squirrel.


http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/16/mystery_creature_pho.html

Comments

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

Are you sure it's not bigfoot?

[swejeety.livejournal.com]

Wow...they lose a lot of their "cuteness" without the fur.

[bluelinegoddess.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly.

[anarqueso.livejournal.com]

It's a naked squirrel rat! That's the queen! Her urine contains hormones that suppresses other naked squirrel rats' abilities to chitter as loudly as she does, so that she alone can win the epic chittering battles with bluejays. This gives her immense social status.

[jewbacca1897.livejournal.com]

ilu so much for that entire comment

[anarqueso.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I was thinking of you when I wrote it, dontcha know?

[jewbacca1897.livejournal.com]

Well duh! It was a tailored comment, and I adore it! Thank you

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

that's what i said!!!

[droserary.livejournal.com]

Love your icon--I thoroughly enjoyed all of those David Attenborough documentaries.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

i literally screamed when that bird turned around and looked like that - i HAD to get a screen cap!!

[deathling.livejournal.com]

EEEK! ew!

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

Oh weird! It's a gnome or a brownie or something. Mini-troll?

[mperrotti76.livejournal.com]

pygmy hippopotamus?

[momomom.livejournal.com]

But why?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

mange, probably.

[nysidra.livejournal.com]

I see your squirrel and raise you my *dearly departed* rat:

[klandaghicat.livejournal.com]

Yay for the Rufie-rats! My boys have now all passed, but I still love em. And the hairless squirrel (possibly a released hairless rat?) is just adorable!
I miss my boys...

[squid-ink.livejournal.com]

was he born this way, was it chemo or did someone go crazy with an EpiLady?

he looks like he needs a sweater.

[lavenderjones.livejournal.com]

People actually thought it was a naked mole rat! In Seattle!
Poor little guy.
You know you may have just solved a puzzle bubbling through my mind for 15 years...

[tsunami-ryuu.livejournal.com]

Poor mangy bugger. He's going to get awfully cold come winter.

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

I remember a couple of years ago when there was a "maned wolf" sighting somewhere in the U.S. The animal turned out to be a fox with mange.

Why must people always jump to the silliest conclusions with odd-looking animals?

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

Because it's fun! It's like UFO's - it's way more fun and interesting to the think of the exotic rather than the most likely - and in the case of mangey wolves, grosser - answer. :)

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

It's gross, yet bizarrely cute. It doesn't look well, though, poor thing,

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

i fear it is soon for a lonely and chilly death :(

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

^and itchy~

[mildmannered.livejournal.com]

NICE!

Btw - guess who I saw today in the skies above downtown Tampa?

Three swallow-tailed kites, that's who.

[ljlauriet.livejournal.com]

he confuses me. half of me wants to pick em up and give him a a hug (the so ugly it's cute phenom) and half of me wants to run away squealing.

[bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com]

Awwwww....I saw a hairless rat at the pet store the other day and I thought it was SO CUTE!