Cute furry thing of the day =)

This is the common dwarf mongoose. It lives in Africa and is cute and fluffy. Yay! (this one looks marginally disgruntled) It eats bugs and lizards and rodents and fruit, and has apparently developed a symbioticish relationship with hornbills, foraging together and warning each other about predators.

Not quite as cute, but much more kick-ass, this is the small Asian mongoose. As far as I can tell, this is the guy that eats snakes and such. The wikipedia picture of this guy is totally scary. If I was a cobra I'd probably run, or slither, or whatever.

So yeah. Common dwarf mongoose: definitely petable (not to be confused with potable). Small Asian mongoose: not so sure, probably if it looks like this one above, probably not if it looks like the wikipedia one, might lose soul.