Baby pandas make it hard to get work done

May 17, 2016 • 3:20 pm

. . . and I mean that in two ways: not only eating up your time on the Internet, but interrupting this cleaner at the Panda breeding sanctuary in Szechuan. I actually visited the place some years ago and got to touch a giant panda.

I doubt this worker was upset at the interruption!

Is there any baby animal cuter than a panda? I can’t think of one.

15 thoughts on “Baby pandas make it hard to get work done”

  2. They love that basket! They need their own baskets to play in, but of course they’d be most interested in the one that the human is using.

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    1. The trick is to bring two baskets in, throw a few leaves in the “sacrifice” basket at first to attract their attention, then get your work done with the second. 🙂

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  3. I heard that they no longer allow anyone visiting to hold or touch the Panda’s at the Chengdu Panda Base, but you still can at Dujiangyan Panda Base. Apparently there was an outbreak of distemper at Chengdu and they think a visitor transmitted it to the panda.

    In the past, you could pay a fee and they would put you in protective clothing and gloves and place a baby panda on your lap. The fee kept going up until it was around $350. My wife did it several years ago. It was a great money maker for the Panda center. Seems odd that they would stop doing it at one center, but not another.

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    1. Me too! I’m sure it’s good for them to have something new/different to play with too like that basket, though I suspect it wouldn’t last any longer than Gus’s box. 🙂

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  9. “Is there any baby animal cuter than a panda? I can’t think of one.”

    How about an Emperor Penguin chick?

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  10. I liked how the woman at first thought it was cute, but by the end was clearly starting to get annoyed.

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