A few Christmas-themed pictures of kittens, plus one puppy.
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...and holds it like a baby. Cute surprise: watch his ears beginning at the 7 second mark!

sip sip sip sip...

( video of a young child reading a book with kittens )

awww. SO cute. i love little kids, and warm little fuzzy things. :)

ps- the video has a child in it.

does anyone have this phone and know how to copy and paste text (from apps, web) to send to someone in a text??
I have no idea how to if it does it and not even sure it does..

i've looked for answers but can't find any.. thought id try here..
any advice:)

My friend came to visit last Sunday, and brought her 12 week old puppy.

( Baaaaaby Basset Hound )

ok so heres the deal. Once again, im having problems with my mother and i dont know where else to turn. Heres my situation today:

so im a wrestler. i am on varsity and doing pretty well. Today in practice, my coach was telling me that tomorrows tournament was a Singles tournament and that it was going from around 530 am to 8pm. Now for those of you who dont know, a single or individual is a tournament where all the scores depend on YOU instead of for your team. They arent as important as the team ones and they dont count for anything except more practice time. So today when he said that, i thought that i have stuff to do and i cant go tomorrow. I have calc test to study for, a dinner with my girlfriend and her folks for her moms Bday, and tonight is the first night of Hanukkah and i wanted to eat. if i go, i have to make weight which means i cant eat tonight or tomorrow morning. I called my mom and told her im giving up my spot and that i have things to do. before i could explain she hung up. i came back inside, and my coach was on the phone with someone. it was her. so now not only am i embarrassed that the entire varsity lineup knows my mom calls my coach instead of listening to ME, the actual wrestler, but now my coach is annoyed and thinks i was lying to him. greaaaat. she really screwed me over, and i got worked so much harder after that. so now im home and i dont even wanna see her. i cant eat anything on the first damn night of Hanukkah and i cant get anything done tomorrow. i was supposed to buy stuff for my trip to Utah next week, but no. now im stuck.

what do i do with a woman like this

I have not posted any new puppy pictures lately. These are images from November 6 up till sometime last week. He's getting so big. I am sorry some of the lighting on the images isn't that great. These were all taken with my phone.

( Anubis )

On Sunday, I volunteered at a 'Santa Paws' event for the Humane Society. There were over 30 dogs ... and one brave little kitten:

( My little gray boy )

My friend at work has a friend who has a dog* who just had puppies. She had 6 of them and there is a puppy cam! It might not be up 24 hours a day, but I've had it in a separate window at work so I can get a cute puppy fix.

* got that? :D

( puppy cam! )

*just so you know, I've created a new account to remain anonymous*

One of my close friends who I already talked with suggested finding advice groups/communities so here I am..

I just need some advice on some things I'm going through..

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Sorry if it doesn't make sense. I'm just..really messed up right now. Emotionally and I suppose mentally.

Any help is appreciated.

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A zookeeper in the Ukraine temporarily took a baby elephant into her home. It roams the house like any other pet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SMqCgX6G3E

eh ok some and my boyfriend have been going out almost 6 months, we have a very open relationship and talk about everything really but i don't know how to bring something up to him....
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**FINAL EDIT Thu Dec 10 02:15:47 UTC 2009**

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And finally some answers to some questions:

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ok so basically i dont know what im doing, but im hoping to get some advice from someone. Heres the deal: for a while now, me and my parents, mostly my mom, have been fighting. alot. I think they are the dumbest fights. I really think my mom is crazy. i love her to death because she pushed me from her womb, but i do not understand her at all. we are so different and we bash heads all the time. i justdont know what to do anymore. Todays fight was probably the dumbest ever. Christmas is coming up, and i said the only thing i want are new speakers for my car. She said she diddnt wanna get that so i said then jsut give me money so if i find something i can get it. She went OFF on me. apparently its not the fact that i dont want anything, its that she wants to spend time with me. but i spend time with her alot ! im the only 17 going on 18 year old that sits at dinner every night and chats. im a good kid. she thinks im bad, but im so good compoared to what i could be doing. im 17, drug free, 4.0 GPA, and have had a solid relatoonship for 2 years. help please):

Okay, I'm gonna give you guys the background information on this whole situation so you can hopefully help me out here. I started dating this guy, Kevin, a few weeks ago. Things were going good, we'd talk and text and get along well when we were together. On our first date we talked a lot about ourselves and what we're looking for right now and I bluntly said, "I'm not f*cking around anymore." And I menchoned that to him last Sunday again and he said to me, "And you think I am?" and I go, "No." and he goes, "Good. Because if I was you'd of been out the door by now." So we're both on the same page, or so I think. Tuesday night I was suppose to go over there, but his roommate wasn't feeling well so he told me that it wouldn't be a good idea. That's the last I've heard from him. I tried texting him a few times the rest of that night and he didn't reply. So the next day I only texted him 3 times through out the day and tried calling him once. No reply. Thursday night I texted him once, and called him once. No reply. So a girl who lives on my floor, Ashley, tries to call him off of her phone, no reply. Last night I went over to his Appartment, no one's there. Though he did menchon he was maybe going to go home this weekend to me earlier in the week. I tried calling him again, no answer. So I left a voicemail pretty much saying "Hey, I don't know if you're phone is broken or you're just avoiding me, but I'm kind of worried. I wanna talk to you. I'd appricate it if you'd call me or text me, bye." Then my friend Sam tried calling him off of her phone later that night, no answer. I texted him this morning, "So I just thought of something, maybe you not answer me for four days has something to do with Guards stuff (he's in the National Guard). Maybe. Or your phone is broken, or you're ignoring me. I don't see why you'd be ignoring me though, I didn't do anything. I'm really worried/annoyed/slightly starting to get angry. If you didn't want to be in a relationship with me, if that's what this is about, then you should of just said so and I would of been fine with it. Like I told you twice now Kevin, "I'm not in this to fuck around" and you said you wernt either. Well. I am worried about you. I'm also kind of worried about myself right now because I'm not as mad as I probably should be at you right now. But I really want you to see you. I hate not understanding and right now I'm not understanding why you won't talk to me. But we do need to talk. Maybe I'm just being paranoid..."

Am I just being paranoid? This relationship is new, so you'd think he'd be wanting to talk to me and such. What should I do? I've done pretty much everything that I can think of. I'm not really freaking out, but I kind of am getting to the point where it's really starting to annoy me because I don't understand why he's not answering me or anything when everything was perfectly fine. It's weird. What should I do?

I'd really appricate some advice :) Thank you for taking the time to read this. It means a lot to me.

Via SFGate Day in Pictures, my usual cute baby animal resource, a baby leopard from Hodenhagen, Germany:

( Baby Amur leopard )

I had never heard of this species so I looked it up. Not many of them left, I'm afraid. :-(

From the AJC:
An orphaned female bobcat kitten is being raised by the staff of Reed Bingham State Park in south Georgia.

( Meet May, the baaaaaaaaby bobcat )

BONUS BAAAAABY: "The park also is renowned for its annual release of baby gopher tortoises, the state reptile."