chubby

Oh lawd, they comin'

Katmai National Park's annual competition of voting for your favorite chubby bear is back and voting has already begun! Which chubby cubby will win the title this year? 

Every Fall, the 'Fat Bear Week' competition takes place and it's a celebration in which the online community compares photos of bears in Spring and those same bears all chubbed up and getting ready for hibernation! The difference between the photos is often very obvious. And while it's a fun competition to take part in, it's truly all about these amazing bears, their survival, and how we're learning from them. 

For those who might consider this to be body shaming, it's actually all about body positivity. A bear needs to bulk up before winter, or else it won't survive. As the U.S. Department of the Interior says, "A fat bear is a healthy bear!" Bears can lose up to a third of their entire body fat as they hibernate. 

You can vote for your favorite chubby cubby here! And follow Katmai National Park on Twitter for all the updates! 

It's an instinct that we just want, no scratch that, need to pinch the cheeks of adorable animals. They're just so darn cute, we can't help ourselves! And if they happen to have giant and super pinch-able cheeks... then, it's their fault really. 

No animal has a right to be so darn adorable! Chubby cheeks and all their glory: 

One Toronto photographer has noticed that chubby cat cuteness has been underappreciated and decided to change that for good by capturing their charm in the fat cat pictures series. Pete Thorne's project, Fat Cats, puts the chubby kittens at the spotlight and delivers truly adorable cat portraits which will not leave you indifferent, for sure. Just one word of note before you start watching this cute gallery below: please try to resist and not do it to your pet cat. Chubby cats are adorable but it's not the healthier condition real cat should be in. Note that many of these cats on the fat cat pictures series are already on diets. However, the topic of this article is cuteness and not health, so we'll focus on that. 

Have you ever accidentally broken the ring-pull while opening the can? And what about spilling all the food over the floor while trying to place in plate or cheese sliding off when you grab a pizza? That's excatly what happened to this adorable chubby cat who fails doing the one thing he wants...For more, check out the twitter page of artist Q-Rais. 

Let's start with the good news- Bruno, the chubby cat, is off the market, after being adopted few days ago. Here is Bruno's amazing story starting at the Wright Way rescue shelter until he found his new loving home.   

And no, they're not pregnant...

Bode = bodacious. Embrace your bodeness, kittehs.

Pete Thorne's latest photo project is all about fat cats and features candid insights into their personalities. He hopes to raise enough money to put out his photographs in a coffee table book. His last book, 'Old Faithful', focused on senior dogs!