I saw this picture on the I Can Has Cheezburger site, thought is was oddly cute and sent it to my mom. She agrees upon its cute-ness and asked me what kind of animal I thought it was. I don’t know. I just call it “cute” and that’s good enough for me.

The JPEG is called “funny-picutres-otter-children-bucket.jpg” but I just don’t know… IS that an otter? I guess I have never seen one that was dry. I have only seen them wet, and only in pictures.

I did a google image search on the word “otter”. Some of the otter pictures that came up looked nothing like the little cuties in this image, while a couple of them looked very similar, albeit wet.

Is this an otter mama holding its baby otter?