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Is this the one, universal thing that everyone loves?

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reallyrandomwords · 01/11/2019 08:34

My DP was showing me cute otter pictures and it made me wonder- is there anybody that doesn't love otters? They're always sooo cute... how could you not like otters?

Random... I know...

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BarbaraofSeville · 01/11/2019 08:49

If you commit the cardinal Mumsnet sin of being on Facebook (or its probably on the other social medias too), you might like In Otter News, which fills your newsfeed with pictures of otters being cute and/or funny.

I don't think anglers or others in the fish related business like otters because they eat fish.

ThisIsSamhain · 01/11/2019 08:51

They rape baby harbour seals

Winterdaysarehere · 01/11/2019 08:52

I have an amazing video of a wild otter in Scotland catching a fish. It was so peaceful and I was so near you can hear crunching!!

PajamasnoDramas · 01/11/2019 10:03

Well their cuteness for me is balanced off by the fact they stink, as I discovered from a trip to a sea life Centre many years ago. So I’m afraid I’m out. Mind you my favourite animal is a 🦛 hippo.

KindOranges · 01/11/2019 10:10

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/16/crazed-otter-bites-chases-man-back-car-scotland/

They have an extraordinary strong bite. They’re mini killing machines!

AngusThermopyle · 01/11/2019 10:20

I do not like otters. I saw one attack a dog when i was little. It was shockingly horrible.

NormaBean · 01/11/2019 10:25

AngusThermopyle

Dogs attack cats, cats attack birds, etc and humans attack all animals.

Do you hate every animal and human?

SunshineDays2019 · 01/11/2019 10:29

I defy anyone not to love baby pandas 🐼😍

ComtesseDeSpair · 01/11/2019 10:34

Snow leopards. It is impossible to dislike a snow leopard. They are both magnificently majestic and bafflingly clumsy all in one go.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 01/11/2019 10:36

Pandas :)

lottiegarbanzo · 01/11/2019 10:37

Are you crazy? Carp fishermen hate otters!

They (the fishing people) fill small lakes with tasty fish, so they can catch them and throw them back for fun. They then get very upset when otters treat this as an all-you-can-eat buffet.

BlueCornsihPixie · 01/11/2019 10:38

I mean it's quite natural for them to attack a dog. Dogs attack enough animals it's not like they're innocent

Pukeworthy · 01/11/2019 10:38

I like them, but do not find them 'cute'. Theyre smelly vicious waterferrets.

lottiegarbanzo · 01/11/2019 10:43

Also, you do know that, until quite recently, there were many organised otter hunts, with dogs (like fox hunts but on foot) in the UK? They didn't stop voluntarily. I'm guessing those people didn't 'like' otters very much.

SymphonyofShadows · 01/11/2019 10:44

lottie it’s not just anglers who hate them for killing fish, and it’s not just lakes. They often don’t kill just for food and decimate whole stretches of river. The bastard things.

motorcyclenumptiness · 01/11/2019 11:02

Didn't Terry Nutkins lose a finger to an otter? I was going to say baby pandas too - not sure that otter diplomacy would work

AngusThermopyle · 01/11/2019 11:07

Normabean. I was only 5. It made an impression. No I don't hate all animals. Also I've never witnessed at a young age any other animal attacks. Besides, op was specifically asking about Otters.

TheFaerieQueene · 01/11/2019 11:11

I’m not sure this thread has gone the way the OP planned. 🤣 sadly, however cute, predatory carnivores have a dark side.

Aposterhasnoname · 01/11/2019 11:15

Sloths, particularly baby ones. How can you not love this, just look at that smile

Is this the one, universal thing that everyone loves?
KindOranges · 01/11/2019 16:54

@YetAnotherSpartacus, I must admit giant pandas drive me slightly mad. I realise this is a captive panda problem, and it's not their fault humans wrecked their habitat, but they won't eat anything other than specific types of bamboo, they won't mate in captivity, and even when they do, the female is only fertile for less than two days a year, they have pseudopregnancies etc etc. They just seem so reluctant to survive as a species...

And I've found koalas less cute since discovering they're riddled with chlamydia.

I think Terry Nutkins lost two fingers to an otter!

ChessieFL · 01/11/2019 16:55

I met Terry Nutkins and he did indeed lose two fingers to otters (middle finger of each hand). They look cute but are vicious!

reallyrandomwords · 01/11/2019 20:58

Sorry @TheFaerieQueene I just got caught up in other stuff so haven't been along... lol

I do of course realise their nature, they're wild animals at the end of the day. They just LOOK cute... Grin

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BigFatBloomers · 01/11/2019 21:49

Just going to leave this here...

Is this the one, universal thing that everyone loves?
NotExactlyHappyToHelp · 01/11/2019 22:06

Sorry you’re wrong. It’s Quokkas although no ones ever heard of them. They are precious and lovely.

Is this the one, universal thing that everyone loves?
lljkk · 01/11/2019 22:09

Pandas are cute but OMG are they stupid.

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