Is this the one, universal thing that everyone loves?

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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...

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.

They rape baby harbour seals

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!!

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.

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!

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

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

Do you hate every animal and human?

I defy anyone not to love baby pandas 🐼😍

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

Pandas :)

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

@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!

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

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...

Just going to leave this here...

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

Pandas are cute but OMG are they stupid.