I'm sorry, I love my cats and kittens, and think they're insanely cute, but this goes above and beyond it all.
Baby polar bear, courtesy of the Bear With Us Sanctuary:
What else needs to be said? I'm a crusty old bastard, and I'm reduced to making goo-goo sounds.
Update: Well, hell.
I had no idea the little cutie pie wasn't real. It was the last photo that popped up on my Facebook feed before I went to bed last night, and my head immediately detonated with an overload of Oogly Woogly Cuteness. I slapped a diary up and posted it to the PWB Peeps, and went to bed.
I can't post from work, only read during my lunch "hour", and I didn't even see it up then. It's amazing that it was posted and went Rec by 4 pm, when I checked back again. I thought it might get five comments at best.
I appreciate all the recommends. A few mea culpas:
I'm very aware of the plight of the polar bear. It sickens me to know just how terrible their living conditions are, and how close they are to extinction. No disrespect or subtext was intended.
Neither was there any intent to deliberately fool anyone. If you want to mock people for being "taken in," start with me. And the Bear with Us Sanctuary credit was on the Facebook post, so I just continued the credit. I usually check my sources on stuff like Limbaugh's latest screechfest, but I didn't think to check on the accuracy of oogly woogly cutie stuff. Again, my fault and my apologies.
To somewhat make up for it, here's a classic 17-second bit of 100% verified kitty cuteness.