Okay, guess what kind of animal this is (I’ve edited out the source so you can’t cheat).
No argumentum ad googlem, please.
Update: ———————————————————————————————————————————-
As many of you have guessed, it’s a rabbit, specifically a Lionhead rabbit which is a fairly new breed that apparently originated in Belgium.
Original photograph from The Smiling Wolf Studio on their Facebook page here.
(by Grania Spingies)
Rabbit?
Looks like a very fuzzy hamster!
Bunny.
Angora rabbit
Considering the source, my money is on an angora cat.
A domestic cat with a somewhat unique phenotype ?
Nah, looks more like a guinea pig…
It’s a wee bunny rabbit.
…with nasty teeth…
Bring forth the Holy Hand Grenade…
A cat of course!
A very much asleep persian cat
+ 1
That was my first thought, too, but:
A) Ceiling Cat has yet to confirm, suggesting not; and
ii) the shape of the face / eyes / nose / etc. isn’t quite right for a felid.
I’d say some sort of rodent. I’d lean towards an angora hamster, but somebody else has already suggested a hamster without a response from CC. Second choice would be an angora rabbit, but there’ve been other mentions of rabbits, too….
b&
On second glance, I tend to agree.
OK. An Angora woodchuck. Angora groundhog.
A Great Greybearded Beaver of Biggleswade.
Was gonna say either guinea pig or rabbit. I think I’m leaning toward the latter.
Whatever it is, it can’t see a thing. Since you love to post cat pictures I have to assume this isn’t a cat since that would be too obvious, so some kind of rabbit bred for its fur, like an Angola.
Either that or a tribble.
Angola? African rabbit?
Oops. Angora. lol
The red UK native is Sciurus candyflossis & I suppose this might be the grey Sciurus cottoncandis American invader
+1
Is that the front or rear orifice we’re looking at?
I’m guessing Angora rabbit. It seriously needs a trim.
Me too
The guess and the trim
It’s a cat–a domestic cat
A tribble?
easily a cat…
A guinea pig
Knowing you by now, it MUST be a cat!
Chinchilla
Guinea pig?
it’s a cat pretending to be a tribble.
Either that, or it’s a tribble pretending to be a cat.
Anybody know any Klingons? We could test this theory….
b&
Himalayan cat?
Definitely a tribble
Noooo – it is a Juvenile Chewaka
I think a cat – the “eyes” aren’t eyes at all (the real ones are nearer the nose)
it’s a WABBIT!
A duck.
+1
“…And what else floats like a duck?…”
Wood… …chuck?
It is an Ewok! of course.
Colonel Meow? Although, it look suspiciously like a bunny.
some otter kind of animal?
beaver
An agnostic cat?
That’s an Angora rabbit. The pic is taken from an angle where you can’t see the laid-back ears.
I think you’re right. I raised angora rabbits thirty-plus yrs ago, and I’d say, the barely visible eye tell me so. Cats have binocular vision…don’t see that here. The fur looks right…oh, but is that fur a fantastic insulator!
If you do a Google Image search for “angora rabbit,” you’ll find a number of bunnies in similar poses that look just like this one except for fur color. You’ll also find some that look much different but have the same fur color.
I’m’a gonna go with angora rabbit, too, Ceiling Cat’s continued silence notwithstanding.
b&
Here’s a page with lots of examples:
http://www.funzug.com/index.php/wildlife/very-cute-angora-rabbit.html
b&
QED.
Ohh, those poor animals!
Oh, the hugely matted furry?
http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/001/360/1362599_02bcdea730.jpg
Doesn’t have quite the same ring….
b&
Ha Ha Ha! (@ jpg)
Oh, and your effort–certainly…uh…effortful.
Yeah…well…it’s not like my Bucket o’ Brilliance never needs to get topped off at Sophistricated Super Supply Store or anything….
b&
How do you get a cat to sit still under a blow dryer like that?
porcupine
It’s a mammal.
And, just to cover all the bases: it’s a conglomeration of baryonic matter.
b&
Well Ben, that pretty much distills it down to the basics – but there is some evidence of a non-baryonic ‘black hole’ on the face.
Third and last guess, dog.
A squirrel of some sort? Perhaps one accidentally caught in the dryer?
It’s a CEPHALOPOD of course.
expert camouflage, eh?
Funny. It doesn’t look very squiddish to me….
b&
Who mentioned Harry Potter?
You mean that’s a broomstick it’s riding on?
Damn…either that’s one awfully big broomstick, or one weeeeeally weeeeally tiiiiiny wabbit….
b&
Wait — I get it now.
It’s a mimic octopus, right?
Cheers,
b&
Split lip means it’s not a cat.
Clearly it is the Ancient of Days:
http://cheezburger.com/4325230336?from=recMap3
1st guess: cat. 2nd guess: rabbit 3rd guess: monkey.
3 guesses:
having seen Scorsese’s Harrison doc. tonight, I think it could be Lennon in his hairy 1969 incarnation; or Jesus; or the portrait of William Lane Craig which he keeps locked in his attic.
My munny is on bunny
The update says it’s a rabbit, but I don’t believe a word of it as it’s obviously a crocoduck.
Re: the rabbit’s breed. How ambivalent we are about the lion: positive, ‘leonine’, yet pejorative, ‘lion-faced’, the Alzheimer’s sufferer.
It’s Don King.
Cornel West
It’s what you hold up to a creationary when they start prancing about how ain’t nobody ever seen no new species evolve.
Why Young People Are Moving Away From Religion story by NPR
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/15/169342349/more-young-people-are-moving-away-from-religion-but-why