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Prepare for your heart to explode.

An abandoned, 5-week-old sea otter pup was recently rescued in California, fattened up at a local aquarium, and is currently undergoing rehabilitation at Shedd's Abbott Oceanarium in Chicago.

She doesn't have a name yet - their currently referring to her as "Pup 681" - but, how about we just call her "Mine."

Look at this face!

Oh baby, that gaze!

This lovely video documents the first exam ever for Seattle Aquarium's latest otter pup. Its mother Aniak was trained to bring the pup to the biologists, thanks to patience on the biologists' part and a decent amount of seafood-as-positive reinforcement.

Suffice to say, everything about this video is unbearably squee.

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This baby Otter is so cute, and he loves his bottle so much, no one has the heart to wean him just yet. So bottles up!

- Sally Squeeps

I'm sorry squeeps, I was going to share with you a very squee picture of a baby Seal, but I can't seem to find him. All I've got is this cute snowball with little, black eyes... Wait a second...

-Sally Squeeps