If you need a dose of über cute...

Check out this brief raw video footage of a 5-week old orphaned otter:

http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Technology%20and%20Science/ID/2589374635/

I'm sure it's been posted on a zillion other sites, but I found it on CBC's web site.

Image snipped from the end of the video.

This little sweetie is so cute it almost kills me to look at her. Are we females hard-wired for baby mammals? We must be. Except I'm not hard-wired to go ga-ga over human babies. Only non-human, for some reason!

Watching this has been my perk in an otherwise grey November work day.

And I just found a good article on her -- the otter is a girl.  :-)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/05/shedd-aquarium-otter-pup_n_6108662.html 

P.S. There's a better and longer video here:

http://time.com/3560116/baby-otter-cute-swim-chicago-heart-bursting/

Peace.

Comments are off for this, just enjoy the day.