dewhitton: Disturbing

Den (

dewhitton) wrote,
@ 2003-10-06 17:04:00

Current mood:	amused
Current music:	Fly like an eagle - Steve Miller Band

Disturbing
Disturbingly cute animal photos.

Bobby the Brushtailed Possum

Clancey the Red Kangaroo.

Clancey is still in care and will be there for another 12 months. He's one of the animals up for sponsorship.

an Eastern Grey joey and a swamp wallaby joey share a basket.

A wallaroo, red kangaroo, eastern greay kangaroo and another wallaroo.

These fellows are still in care, but are nearly fully grown now.

Some of the mob in care

One of the swamp wallabies currently in care

Repairing the wing of a Wedge Tailed Eagle

Me, Gillian and Helen.

And finally, Mr. Claws. Claws was successfully released into the wild last year.

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	elynne 2003-10-06 12:19 am UTC (link)
	... I think I hurt myself with the OVERWHELMING CUTENESS!!!!! (Reply to this)

	WOMBAT CUTENESS AT 3 a.m.?!!!! weyrdbird 2003-10-06 12:55 am UTC (link)
	Insomnia, what a wonderful thing. NOT:D Cuteness is evil on this level. Now I'm even MORE awake! BABY WOMBAT!! (Reply to this)

	trede 2003-10-06 12:55 am UTC (link)
	Oooh, very cute! But what's that red-headed mammal in the wedge-tailed eagle photo? ^ ^ (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dewhitton 2003-10-06 01:47 am UTC (link)
	That's a short fat bastard (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	That just so happens to look like... ionotter 2003-10-06 05:04 am UTC (link)
	...Sean Atkins, aka Samwise Gamgee. All hail Den Whitton the Brave! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	Re: That just so happens to look like... dewhitton 2003-10-06 06:48 am UTC (link)
	I only look brave. I was shit-scared of the eagle. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: That just so happens to look like... bluejena 2003-10-08 12:02 pm UTC (link)
	Sean Astin. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	chezmax 2003-10-06 05:05 am UTC (link)
	Too cute first thing int he morning! blam (Reply to this)

square wombat poo

bridgette01
2003-10-06 05:19 am UTC (link)

hiya, these photos are just toooo cute. I've stumbled across you, as you do in LJ via someone who needed some animal advice, and I gotta say, you deserve a medal. These lucky animals.

also, maybe you can confirm something I was told yesterday at Steve Irwan's animal park - that wombats have square poo??!!?? I made a point of finding some while there, and I can kind of see the squareness, as in it doesn't taper, but all I can think about, is the poor wombat bottom!!! Maybe Mr Claws can tell us the whole story. :) :) :)
ps: hope you don't mind if I add you to my friends list?

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	Re: square wombat poo dewhitton 2003-10-06 06:40 am UTC (link)
	They are little fibrous cubes with rounded corners. It's a dry environment thing. I should mention that I didn't raise any of these. I only do bats and echidnas. If this job doesn't pan out I'll be sending my resume to Australia Zoo. "IT everything with own car and rabies shots" (Reply to this) (Parent)

	tatterdemalion 2003-10-06 05:29 am UTC (link)
	thud cuteness overload!!! squee (Reply to this)

	The Reusable Wombat! kelloggs2066 2003-10-06 06:02 am UTC (link)
	Wow! I had no idea wombats were so resiliant! :o Reusable Washable Autoclavable Folds Flat for easy storage! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: The Reusable Wombat! dewhitton 2003-10-06 06:35 am UTC (link)
	You're very silly, you know that? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	Re: The Reusable Wombat! kelloggs2066 2003-10-06 06:49 am UTC (link)
	No. No. Not at all. I'm completely serious. All the time. Really! :D (Reply to this) (Parent)

	copperwolf 2003-10-06 06:40 am UTC (link)
	Australian possums are a lot cuter than American possums. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dewhitton 2003-10-06 06:50 am UTC (link)
	They are really friendly until they mature, then they become biting, scratching bastards. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	moonrose 2003-10-06 07:51 am UTC (link)
	i was thinking about the same thing... grin the ones I've seen here in Texas are all these enormous small-dog sized things I wouldn't get near with a 10' poking stick. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Awe! tendyl 2003-10-06 08:48 am UTC (link)
	So cute! I had to share at work! I love the crawling into the couch!!! (Reply to this)

	ursulav 2003-10-06 09:44 am UTC (link)
	GO MISTER CLAWS! God, the cuteness! That little wombat butt! That little wombat face! Aigggh! Overloading... (Reply to this)

	lizardling 2003-10-06 09:58 am UTC (link)
	Augh! gnn will...not...die...from...cuteness! AWWW! So Cute! Wombat Bottom! squee (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mactavish 2003-10-06 09:16 pm UTC (link)
	I have a cute wombat bottom! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ceruleanst 2003-10-06 10:15 am UTC (link)
	There's cute and then there's irresistable. That one pic of Clancey compels me to put my own nose up to the screen and make foozy noises. I know it's just a photograph but when I scroll it onto the screen my brain chemicals make me lean forward and go hello nosey face who's a cute fluffy roo yes you are (Reply to this)

Zebra in the Kitchen

ursuscal
2003-10-06 11:10 am UTC (link)

Sometime in the 1960s, Jay North, better known as "Dennis the Menace" on TV, made a stink-bomb of a movie that not even Martin Milner and Andy Devine could salvage. It was about a pre-adolescent boy forced to move from the country to the city, and give his "pet" cougar to the zoo.

But Batty, his character had *nothing* on you! Seeing all those roos in the kitchen was reminiscent of either a Crocodile Dundee or Yahoo Serious movie (sorry to possibly rub salt in a stereotypical wound by mentioning them). My Dog, but you must have fun!

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	Re: Zebra in the Kitchen dewhitton 2003-10-06 05:10 pm UTC (link)
	I should stress that these aren't my animals. They live with a fellow rescuer who has raised them, except for the eagle of course. THat came in injured, fully gorwn and pissed off. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jynxgirl 2003-10-06 12:00 pm UTC (link)
	What exactly is a Mr. Claws? SO CUTE!!!!! gushes (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dewhitton 2003-10-06 05:17 pm UTC (link)
	Claws is a 1/2 grown wombat. They're vegetarians who live in burrows, hence the claws. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	oceansedge 2003-10-06 12:29 pm UTC (link)
	Awwwwwwwwwwwww Geeez.... now I'm REALLY missing my animal rescue days. Even if they were only 'ordinary' animals like raccoons and groundhogs and crows and the occassional deer. Pssst... did you know that mother nature makes baby animals CUTER on purpose? Apparently cuter babies get fed more, taken better care of, and thrive more readily? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dewhitton 2003-10-06 05:29 pm UTC (link)
	There are the ordinary animals for me. Raccoons are exotic. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

oceansedge
2003-10-06 06:42 pm UTC (link)

My babies...

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My babies...
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	oceansedge 2003-10-06 06:43 pm UTC (link)
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	dewhitton 2003-10-07 12:12 am UTC (link)
	That's a rather large... lizard. 8) (Reply to this) (Parent)

acelightning
2003-10-06 01:12 pm UTC (link)

as if the rampaging puggle pictures weren't enough adorableness!

and thanks for including the picture of you helping to imp the eagle. i showed it to people here and said, "see, that's Den, the fellow in Australia who rescues bats and occasionally other critters. i met him in person on my first trip - remember me telling you all about that?" my husband commented, "well, i don't know about the 'bastard' part, but he doesn't look all that short or fat."

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	wabbitcalif 2003-10-06 04:06 pm UTC (link)
	Wow - Cute Wallaroos, cute kangys, cute Mr. Claws - and a cute redheaded Mammal... grins Wow, the list of Cuteness goes on and on! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dewhitton 2003-10-06 05:19 pm UTC (link)
	Oi! I'm not cute! Grr. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	wabbitcalif 2003-10-06 06:19 pm UTC (link)
	Oi! You are SO cute - and fiesty, too, that add's a point to your cuteness factor. You can go on denying it if you want to, but you'd be lyon... (ok, you can bite me for that one!) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	wildjasmine 2003-10-07 05:47 am UTC (link)
	Awww love the pics, had to come look after LJ User Oldwolf posted it as a must see in his journal....how cute is that possum!!! (Reply to this)

	eleri 2003-10-07 08:00 am UTC (link)
	AWWWWWWWWWWWW Wombats are so CUTE Mousie has a toy wombat. (Reply to this)

	ozzi_dawg 2003-10-07 09:56 am UTC (link)
	woof! woof! woof! (Reply to this)

	Too cute! (Anonymous) 2003-10-08 12:00 pm UTC (link)
	Look at that wombat--can anything possibly be cuter? (Reply to this)

	raynbow 2003-10-09 06:29 am UTC (link)
	wombat hiney! sooooo cute! and i don't know what a wallaroo is but i think i want one! (Reply to this)

	eleanor 2003-10-09 01:45 pm UTC (link)
	Ohmygosh, tell me that sponsorship involves having a baby animal live with me until it can be realeased in the wild. Oh wait. This is New York City. We don't have wild marsupials. (Reply to this)

	goff 2003-10-09 05:47 pm UTC (link)
	Oldwolf said LOOK so I did! I was feeling all EVIL and then saw the piccys... Now I am a wollowing mess and feeling all cute! thanks and I hate you ;) Great Pic's! in a scary way! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dewhitton 2003-10-09 06:57 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you, in an evil way. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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