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Sleeping Baby Seal Makes Dreams Come True

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This baby fur seal has just made your week so much better, because remember that dream you've always had? That a small baby animal would crawl through your cat flap and hop up on your sofa to take a nap? Like, the opposite of the Three Little Bears and without the implausible porridge nonsense? Well apparently that dream could come true, dear friend.

if this was an otter, i'd just die

My mother rarely sends me emails, so when she does, I know it's Really Very Important. Yesterday she emailed this story to me, marking the first time in history that my mother was aware of viral baby animal story before I was.

The stunned owner of the house, Annette Swoffer, thought she was hallucinating when she found the pup in her kitchen, hanging out with her cats.

It had made its way from the waterfront at Welcome Bay, New Zealand, through residential streets, across a busy road, and up some steps. "I was in my office and I heard an awful racket down below," Miss Swoffer tolf the Bay Of Plenty Times. "I thought the cats have brought a rabbit or something in so I went down and had a look - and there's a seal in my kitchen. I thought 'I'm hallucinating, this is just wrong.' I'm looking and I'm definitely seeing flippers and not paws."

Um, but this might be the best part:

The cheeky seal wasn't done, however, and while being driven down to the harbour for release, managed to break free and wriggle onto the front seat of the van, turning on the radio in the process.

via my mother and The Daily Mail

29 responses to “Sleeping Baby Seal Makes Dreams Come True”

  1. Steph

    OwO

    OHHHmygoodness. I think I just got diabetes from the sweetness.

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  2. Alyssa Jane

    D’aww! Why can’t stuff like this happen to me?

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  3. Brodie

    New Zealand is on fire this week! First, the creepy sperm donor to lesbians thing and now this.

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    1. frith

      i know right? i love when autostraddle features nz news. so many weird things happen here!

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      1. nicolegertrude

        If tomorrow they write a salute to Carmen I’ll pretty much figure life can’t get any better and this might actually be the end of the world.

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      2. Dina

        I work with a New Zealander who grew up in Australia, and I swear to god that weird things just happen to Kiwis, even in other countries. The stories she tells!

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  4. dizzy

    This is even better than the time a kangaroo broke into someone’s house. And I don’t say that lightly.

    I mean, it even arrived at Welcome Bay… I die of cute, I die.

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  5. Lora

    Party seal!

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  6. Jenni

    This is just the cutest. I just get bugs. Wasps. And one time a centipede crawled through a cable hole I hadn’t bothered to spackle and paint over yet. You bet I did that the next day.

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    1. Bhan

      Entire armies of ladybirds live in my bedroom in my parents house. We can’t work out where they’re coming from either.

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  7. Andi

    So this is totally unrelated…BUT I just passed my finals and am going on to my last semester of nursing school!

    And this seal just made my day that much better. :D

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    1. Ash

      Congrats!

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  8. Ash

    I know I shouldn’t pet it but I WANT TO PET IT.

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    1. Marika

      I KNOW RIGHT

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    2. dizzy

      I want to cuddle it like a teddy bear even though I know I shouldn’t want that.

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      1. Samantha

        Yes you should.

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  9. Sebastian

    “via my mom” +1

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  10. lyricmelody

    okay that baby seal is 20 kinds of adorable.

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  11. idotry

    IT IS JUST SO CUTE AND FUZZY.

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  12. Hannah

    They’re so adorable! Look, here’s a whole bunch of baby seals in New Zealand. We took this video while road tripping up the south island last month.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSpEQTt7xgg&feature=youtu.be

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  13. Maya

    The first thing my girlfriend did this a.m. was wake me up with this picture; I may never recover from the cuteness!

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  14. Sydney

    barf.

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  15. Molly

    Dying of cute over here, nbd.

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  16. Bhan

    Oh my god so cute! I just want to pick it up and cuddle it so bad!

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  17. Jules

    “I’m hallucinating, this is just wrong”

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  18. Madeline

    How do you be a good hostess to a seal in your home? Do you get them lox and tea? Discuss maritime policy?

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  19. KayDee

    This is the only thing I’ve been capable of talking about for the past two days. I don’t care about anything anymore. I just want a baby seal to be sleeping on my couch.

    I hate my life.

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  20. Jenkin

    This is the most adorable thing I’ve seen in ages.

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