Kids and animals are a double dose of cuteness.
Photographer Andrea Martin celebrates the joy that comes from these duos in her sweet photos featuring a small kid and a baby animal, cuddling in a rural setting.
As the mom of four children, Martin understands the magic and knows how to embrace their mutual playfulness as well as when to hit the shutter in exactly the right moment.
This is simply too precious for words! And absolutely mesmerizing... how the heck are those cats sitting in those chairs so patiently?
So much cute packed into one video. The video went viral on Reddit (because how could it not?), and racked up a lot of equally adorable (and funny) comments!
We've captured the best ones for you below. Get ready to melt!
It all started when Twitter user @shannoncooperox shared this little anecdote of her 10-year-old neighbor dumping water on her cat while she couldn't just ignore it.
That's when things got really heated.
The people with kids came out at her claiming she is a full-grown adult who has no right to punish a kid this way. On the other hand, cat people were all in favor.
What do you think?
Meet the extraordinary photographer -- Andrea Martin! An award-winning children and family photographer in West Virginia.
Her photographs below show such a tenderness between the children and animals, it's truly magical and looking at a real-life Disney movie moment. The ethereal lighting and happy expressions on the children's faces are all so endearing -- each photograph here is truly a beautiful moment preserved in time.
Check out the stunning imagery below.
The friendship between a kid and his pet is one of the precious bonds ever!
Japanese grandmother, Tamanegi, started documenting the pure bond between her granddaughter and her three giant poodles, Qoo and Riku, since she was three-years-old.
A year later, her grandchild, Mame, was born, and the doting grandmother's passion for photography intensified.
With more than 560K followers on her Instagram page, These nanny's adorable photos and videos are just what we needed right now.
While it may seem obvious to some to teach their kids to respect animals, others out there will simply allow their kids to unknowingly torrent the animals they come into contact with.
When that is the case, it's completely unfair to blame anything that happens entirely on the animal. It's human nature to lash out if you're being used as play-thing instead of a living-thing.
This Tumblr thread dives into the topic more.
This week, two young Rocky Mountain goats have been introduced to their new home in Oregon Zoo and simply can't contain their bouncy, fluffy selves. The mountain goats are 5-month-olds — a male named Murphy and a female named Lena. Murphy and Lena are joining some adult goats Sassy and Montane in the rocky Cascade Crest habitat near the zoo's main entrance.
Amy Cutting, who oversees the zoo's Great Northwest area had this to say, "We are so happy to welcome these kids into the herd. They started scampering around their new habitat right away, and soon enough Sassy and Montane will be showing them the ropes."
Even though the young goats are very young, that haven't stopped them from mastering the art of hopping from rock to rock!
Cutting continues to talk about these goat kids, "These kids came from Olympic National Park, so we're especially grateful we can provide a home for them here. Mountain goats are a non-native species in those mountains, and it's critical for that unique ecosystem that they be removed"
All we can say after watching these adorable bouncy kids run around... man, we wish we had that energy.
Meet Tom, the dad! Or better known as Instagram's @thingsihavedrawn.
Tom transforms kid drawings of all sorts, into 3D realistic images. The imagination behind these pictures are incredible, regardless of some of them being absolutely terrifying. You cannot deny just how creative and powerful a child's imagination can be. Tom is simply bringing forth that imagination and sharing it in a different medium.
Just imagine this unusual scene at a local hospital ward: A tiny horse is standing by a bed, nuzzling the young patient's hand, while in the corridor outside, another pony is towing a laughing child along in a wheelchair.
Meet the very special miniature therapy ponies who bring joy to sick and disabled children as well as elderly patients and dementia sufferers across Scotland.
Story via TWNews
Ella Casano is a 12-year-old girl who has been receiving intravenous (IV) infusions for ITP since the age of seven. Lately, she came up with this really brilliant idea that would make the experience less scary for other kids- the Medi Teddy. This clever invention is an adorable teddy bear that offers a friendly face to a child while hiding an IV bag in a mesh pouch in the bear's back: ""The cool thing about Medi Teddy is that it belongs to the child and they can bring it to all of their infusions. It's not thrown away or passed on to someone else. You can give it a name (mine is Bailey) and it will be your buddy during the long days at the hospital!", she told Laughing squid. Ella based the Medi Teddy on her own experience and made our heart expanded. Check out these photos on her Instagram page.
These photos sure make us miss those good old days...
A new reserch has found that millennials treat their pets as if they are their first born kid. We can totally understand why a fluffy bundle of love who's always happy to see you seems much more appealing than a crying, screaming child :)
There's something so magical about these photos. Pets bring so much happiness and warmth into our lives, these images show just some of that warmth. *Warning* this list may have you experiencing some feels! Proceed with caution!
