My boy, doing what he does best. :)

It would be a physical impossibility for me to not stop to scritch his tummy!

Rub the belly! Rub the belly!

I had an absolute fit of cute-induced giggles when I saw this. Every time I think about it or look at it I get all smiley. It's ridiculous.

Out of curiosity, does it change how cute that baby dolphin is when you learn it is dead?

You're confusing your dolphins. This one is in Uruguay and is alive, as far as I can see. The sad story you're referencing is from Florida (and I really don't want to read more about it).

Didn't know there was a real dead dolphin story out there. My comment was meant as hypothetical.

Triggered by a demonstration one of user interaction anthropologists did here the other day involving people rating the cuteness of a kitten picture when they thought it was a live kitten vs. the exact same picture of a kitten when they had reason to think it was taxidermied.