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Dandy on my father's side... Lion on my mother's.

an ai gotz teh grumpees frum boaf parintz!

The best part is getting to spend a few more minutes snuggled up with mom, of course!

I'd have no qualms living in a treehouse if it meant having red pandas for family and neighbors. No offense to my wonderful mother and father or anything, but I mean, come on.

Can you really blame her for being hyper-protective though? Just look at how fragile and adorable her bunbabies are!

Pretty mama cat with baby cats, please to let me use you all as a blanket? I promise I'll pay you in milk and tuna!

Not in the sense of a lion's pride (ala "The Lion King"), but more in the sense of the pride this rock hyrax mother must feel for her darlingly squee little babies.

When she's not sniffing and foraging for food for her young'un, this amazing pig mama is offering up her amazing nose for a different kind of excellent utility.

Stop complaining, Jimmy. Mommy has to keep her Rubenesque figure.

Squee lovers, the winners of this week's Squee Spree contest are itty bitty rock hyrax babies! I've always felt like rock hyraxes are animals with permafrowns on their faces... but even so, they're all still undeniably squee as a button!

If the question is "wouldn't mama be proud," then the answer in this particular photo is a resounding "YES."

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.

You can has moar awesome animal videos over here!

He may not have a John Wayne swagger about him, but what he lacks in rugged masculinity, this darling anteater tot more than makes up for in shear adorableness.

I am Bambi. You killed my mother Prepare to die.

u iz cyooter than inigo, tho!

lolwait I'm on facebook

Kelly Wolfe says: "Showgun snuggling with her squee-worthy two-week-old kitten!"

Is Showgun's name a pun on the word Shogun? Regardless of my linguistic curiosities, I think she definitely deserves a snuggle for being the mother to such a lovely little ball of fluff and squee!

Do you have a squee pet that you want to share with the world? Send us your pet pictures and stories, and they could end up on Daily Squee!

Empty nest syndrome doesn't seem like it's going to be a problem for this raven mama. Squee overload, on the other hand...