Laneia’s Team Pick:
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
OwO
OHHHmygoodness. I think I just got diabetes from the sweetness.
D’aww! Why can’t stuff like this happen to me?
New Zealand is on fire this week! First, the creepy sperm donor to lesbians thing and now this.
i know right? i love when autostraddle features nz news. so many weird things happen here!
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.
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!
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.
Party seal!
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.
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
Congrats!
I know I shouldn’t pet it but I WANT TO PET IT.
I KNOW RIGHT
I want to cuddle it like a teddy bear even though I know I shouldn’t want that.
Yes you should.
“via my mom” +1
okay that baby seal is 20 kinds of adorable.
IT IS JUST SO CUTE AND FUZZY.
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.
The first thing my girlfriend did this a.m. was wake me up with this picture; I may never recover from the cuteness!
barf.
Dying of cute over here, nbd.
“I’m hallucinating, this is just wrong”
How do you be a good hostess to a seal in your home? Do you get them lox and tea? Discuss maritime policy?
ALSO ALSO ALSO:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/weddings/weddings-of-the-week/6068055/Introducing-Theresa-and-Shar
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.
This is the most adorable thing I’ve seen in ages.