#too cute animal planet

[viktuurishipper96]

“I’m maybe small but I like to aim big”

Boris the little runt loves to aim big especially on his adventures with his pony pal kitty.

he’s about 5’5 and he loves to go hiking.

His sexuality is an asexual because he’s not interested in love but loves going on an adventure with his mom Rona and his pal kitty the miniature house horse.

He gives of a toboe (wolfs rain) vibe but he lives in a traditional country home with his sister darya.

He’s always up for a challenge.

Here’s the ref and the cat that I’ve based off of. Hope you’ll like it

[glitchedrabbit]

MURDER DRONES EPISODE 8 SPOILERS!!!

Why is she so silly core..

[madddddy]

“I was a Disney kid”

“I was a Nickelodeon kid”

WHERE ARE MY ANIMAL PLANET KIDS?! I GREW UP WATCHING THESE SHOWS

[flowergirlmiwa]

[doverstar]

joseph gordon-levitt called jim hawkins "just a very good-looking wasp of a boy that I will never be" and I've been thinking about that for two weeks

[roseupfromthdead]

[transsexualutopia]

I'm ngl I mainly liked Barbie (2023) for the theatrical experience rather than the source material. I love pink, I loved the set design, I loved the costumes, I loved people going to the theater in theme with the movie and the overall joyful atmosphere.

As for the plot...idk. (I'm not getting into the commentary about feminism or the patriarchy as others did it better than I can.) I definitely didn't feel like the target audience considering I'm not a millennial (or better yet, a young parent) disconnected from whimsy with wistful nostalgia about their childhood. Mattel has been marketing towards that demographic for a while now, and it seems like they're not even attempting for my age or younger. Which is odd, to me, considering a lot of people my age really enjoyed the animated movies and musicals.

I feel like it could've benefitted from being a musical and having a more fantastical setting than just BarbieLand. Even if they were dead set on keeping the themes I don't understand why everything had to be grounded in the Real World. It just seemed like such a safe choice, not a bad one necessarily, but definitely safe to not alienate older folk going to see it. But I didn't really want safe, I wanted whimsical, musical, magical, and I don't see how that would've compromised having an emotionally relatable theme or message.

[twilightangelsworks]

The first one is an acrylic painting that I made as a Christmas gift for my Grandmother. I painted her a rag doll kitten because she loves them and always wanted to have one for herself. The second one is an acrylic painting study of an adorable scene from Animal Planet’s Too Cute series.

[tvthemesongs]

Too Cute! intro

[alipaoli]

First of all, here's the full clip the fotos were taken from:

For anyone like me who was craving an update, I found this Imgur photoset on Reddit. Here are a few highlights.

And finally, my personal favorite...

[viktuurishipper96]

drawing a ginjika version of Boris the Siberian cat that is based off of the runt of the litter in the episode of kittens in wonderland (too cute) wip

[psychoticwillgraham]

feel like shit so I’m gonna put on a random cute animal show to be background noise and go sleep. goodnight <3

[flowergirlmiwa]

[minatalks]

even though i wrote that whole thing a few days ago about how great big dogs are in olli's comments i have to let u all know i my true love are small prideful divas

[mintaikk]

Thinking about this dog in Too Cute who was side eyeing the camera man after they didn't just take the puppy to her and she had to go out of her way to find him

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Okay, I know people as a general rule tend to not care about invertebrates as much as cute, fuzzy mammals, but this is a must-read if you care about animal welfare. The short version is that horseshoe crab blood has been used for decades in medicine as a way to test whether something is truly sterile; the blood clots in the presence of bacteria. Since then millions of horseshoe crabs have been captured and drained of blood, even though a synthetic alternative was developed a few years ago.

They go through a pretty brutal experience in the process. They're caught by fishermen who often throw them by their tails into a pile in the open air, and they're then trucked to a bleeding facility where they're strapped down and their blood is removed with needles jabbed directly into their hearts. Over half their blood may be taken, after which they're supposed to be returned to the ocean. However, it's likely many of them never make it back, instead turned into fish bait and sold by the same fishermen who caught them in the first place.

Apart from the fact that this is a horrific thing to put any animal through, the attrition due to fatalities has put a serious dent in horseshoe crab numbers. This is compounded by massive habitat loss, pollution, and the capture of horseshoe crabs as food, particularly as the females of one species are considered a delicacy. And other animals that rely on horseshoe crabs are suffering, too. The American rufa subspecies of the red knot, a medium-sized shorebird, is critically endangered as the horseshoe crab eggs it must have in order to successfully complete migration have become increasingly scarce, and it is likely the bird will become extinct if trends continue.

While there are guidelines for medical horseshoe crab harvest, they're considered optional. The few laws that exist are poorly enforced. Short of a complete ban on horseshoe crab blood in favor of the synthetic alternative, these animals are in very real danger of going extinct after a history spanning over 400 million years on this planet.

Thankfully, this article is not the first to bring forth the issues surrounding horseshoe crab harvest. Here are a few resources for further information and action (US based, though horseshoe crabs are threatened throughout their entire range):

Horseshoe Crab Conservation Network - https://horseshoecrab.org/conservation/

Wetlands Institute - https://wetlandsinstitute.org/conservation/horseshoe-crab-conservation/

Horseshoe Crab Recovery Coalition - https://hscrabrecovery.org/