Baby animals that are cute but become ugly adults

[lordhero3k]

I love the look of hyenas! I would love to have a african spotted hyena.

I love the look of hyenas as well. I was thinking about some of their behaviors as commonly being perceived as ugly. But like pitbulllady said, a lot of animals could be considered gross.

Most people consider Koalas cute, for example, the classic "Teddy bear", but baby Koalas graduate from nursing to eating their mother's feces, which is pretty gross if you think about it.
pitbulllady

Koalas also are having a big problem with STD's right now. Chlamydia is becoming increasingly dangerous in their species. More sad than ugly, but few would look at it as cute. Anyways, I agree, all animals will do things we may find repulsive.
I also like what pyro fiend said about animals being beautiful.

 

[The Snark]

I don't mean to offend here but most of this thread is utterly ridiculous. The word 'cute' has several ambiguous definitions and you are debating something that is entirely subjective. Beautiful, pretty, adorable, infatuating, compelling, darling, etc. is all in the eye of the beholder, yes? I mean, GET REAL!! The baby's first poop is often called cute!

 

[pitbulllady]

Yeah, I know all billies do that. I just find the pygmy and dwarf billies exceptionally gross looking. I loved our adult male Nubian, he was tall and lean and generally well mannered. Our African Pygmy (Billy Bob) was a raging mess of gross, he'd try to mate with everything and you couldn't go near him without getting pee on you.

The Nigerian Dwarf male was only on our property for a short time, he was a breeder loan, but he was definitely gross.

We had one wether out of all the goats we had, and he was a sweetheart. The mother had triplets and went absolutely bananas on them, so we had to take them from her. We bottle raised him inside, and castrated him. He was 140 pounds of derpy goat who thought he was a lap dog.

I can handle male goats being musky when they aren't short and fat and remind me of someone whose parents are siblings and like NASCAR.



It's so hard to force yourself to go "Oh, your baby is so cute" because it's almost legally required, when you want to scream "oh my god what is wrong with that". That's generally frowned upon, but a majority of babies are just so freaking gross looking.

You do know that *I* love NASCAR, as do my father and brother and most of my friends, so I'm not especially prone to laugh about that statement. You are basically insinuating that I am gross, disgusting and stupid, along with my family. Slobs and idiots can be found in all parts of the country, with all sorts of pastimes. I've seen people as you described everywhere, and I've seen people who are card-carrying "preppies" and people in suits and ties at NASCAR races.

pitbulllady

 

[RzezniksRunAway]

You do know that *I* love NASCAR, as do my father and brother and most of my friends, so I'm not especially prone to laugh about that statement. You are basically insinuating that I am gross, disgusting and stupid, along with my family. Slobs and idiots can be found in all parts of the country, with all sorts of pastimes. I've seen people as you described everywhere, and I've seen people who are card-carrying "preppies" and people in suits and ties at NASCAR races.

pitbulllady

No, I didn't, why would I? Wasn't meant to offend.

All I did was answer the cute babies/ugly adults with a very specific answer of Nigerian Dwarf or African Pygmy, but you probably didn't know that I raised goats when I was younger. So, that being said. I'm out.

 

[Galapoheros]

I don't mean to offend here but most of this thread is utterly ridiculous. The word 'cute' has several ambiguous definitions and you are debating something that is entirely subjective. Beautiful, pretty, adorable, infatuating, compelling, darling, etc. is all in the eye of the beholder, yes? I mean, GET REAL!! The baby's first poop is often called cute!

I hear ya Snark, I've thought about that a lot concerning everything we do and see. It's kind of like somebody saying, "Look how perfect life is, God must exist since everything seems to be so perfect, we're given apples and oranges and so many other good things to eat, and look at the flowers....etc." But then I say, "Yeah but did we evolve to see those things as being good, evolve to eat those things and appreciate only those things through time, instead of those things popping into existence to immediately fit and work that way?" If a fly had more going on in it's head would is say, "Man that baby poop is really cute, I think I'll have some." So it makes me wonder if we have some kind of genetic thing going on that wakes up as we grow, like seeing a puppy and thinking it's "cute". Haha, I don't know, it's pretty weird to think about. Or is it completely learned? How would we know? Then there might be studies of isolating a person and then shows no instinct to reflect such an idea, but would that be only because there is a part of the brain reserved for that kind of thing that wasn't exposed enough to wake it up. Kind of like a person blind at birth that might be able to get new eyes, but the part of their brain reserved for seeing never developed so even with new eyes, they still wouldn't be able to see. I don't know what I just typed but I'm afraid to read it haha.

 

[James Steel]

I tried to raise an orphaned opossum when I was a kid. I always thought it was one of the cutest babies. It's hard to find redeeming qualities in the adults, too. The one I had as a kid
looked like it had on black gloves with the fingers cut out.

 

[The Snark]

You do know that *I* love NASCAR, as do my father and brother and most of my friends, so I'm not especially prone to laugh about that statement. You are basically insinuating that I am gross, disgusting and stupid, along with my family. Slobs and idiots can be found in all parts of the country, with all sorts of pastimes. I've seen people as you described everywhere, and I've seen people who are card-carrying "preppies" and people in suits and ties at NASCAR races.

pitbulllady

I'll forgive you for loving NASCAR if you get me a Superbird to play with for a few years.

 

[just1moreT]

I really caint say wether a armadillo baby is cute ,but im thinking they look like there parent and there not the prettiest hole diggers on the planet or smartest either I think baby mice and rats not cute either but taste good to some

 

[pitbulllady]

I'll forgive you for loving NASCAR if you get me a Superbird to play with for a few years.

I DO know someone who has one, though I don't think that even there's enough money in Dubai to buy that thing off him. The visor on the driver's side has been autographed by Richard Petty, too.

pitbulllady

 

[Galapoheros]

Oh man, def not a 'cute' car imo, ugly price too but wish I had one to sell.

 

[The Snark]

I DO know someone who has one, though I don't think that even there's enough money in Dubai to buy that thing off him. The visor on the driver's side has been autographed by Richard Petty, too.

pitbulllady

And to think I could have bought one complete in running condition for $5000 once upon a time. I don't think I would have called it cute though.

 

[MissSary]

Not by looks but by care...I'd say that big dog breeds get more annoying with age. They want the same attention they had as a puppy, but are way too much to handle as full sized dogs, with exception to a few breeds and personalities I've come across. My friend's chocolate lab is an amazing dog, he failed his guide dog training for being too friendly to just anyone. This is why I started keeping low maintenance critters, just feed and watch.


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[PlaidJaguar]

Not by looks but by care...I'd say that big dog breeds get more annoying with age. They want the same attention they had as a puppy, but are way too much to handle as full sized dogs, with exception to a few breeds and personalities I've come across. My friend's chocolate lab is an amazing dog, he failed his guide dog training for being too friendly to just anyone. This is why I started keeping low maintenance critters, just feed and watch.


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Oh no, big dogs get more annoying with SIZE, then get progressively less obnoxious as they age (assuming the owner knows what they are doing and trains & exercises the poor dog). If any dog is obnoxious, it's pretty much always due to poor training/management and lack of proper physical and mental stimulation. Barring, of course, mental illness--some dogs do have problems, just like humans, but it's pretty rare.

A lot of people get this idea that dogs are easy to keep, but that's only true of a few breeds/individuals. Most dogs are EXTREMELY high maintenance, and failure to properly maintain results in annoying and/or destructive behavior.

 

[SamuraiSid]

It drives me crazy when friends/family... or really anyone for that matter, yells or hits their dog for "acting out" when the owner has taken no effort to learn behaviour, proper care or to attempt some sort of training, above and beyond what filth comes "naturally" to us.

Are we supposed to ignore the fact that the word 'cute' is not necessarily synonymous with the antonym of the word 'ugly'? But then the word 'ugly' did not originally mean unattractive but started out as 'to cause dread or fear'. Also ignoring that the concepts of beauty and ugly are entirely subjective. Sorry about being pedantic. Carry on.

"We are bound to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style" T. Stoppard

Based upon all of this, and Keiths original question, Id have to go with people. Babies are cute, and are intelligent enough to eat dirt when said dirt contains vital micronutrients that are lacking in the babies diet. This I consider to be a beautiful act of nature. Whereas a lot of North American adults (and a growing number of children) cant stomach the idea of eating food that looks like, well, food. In terms of the future, Id say that meets the intended definition of ugly.

 

[lizardminion]

See, I was thinking the opposite of that. I think baby humans, with very few exceptions, are ugly as sin. But lots and lots of adult humans are reasonably (and sometimes exceptionally) attractive.

Almost sounds like we're getting input from an alien. LOL

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I don't necessarily go about looking at cute animals, (beyond cats) and what, to me, makes a cute animal is based on what it's doing.
I'm also not sure I've ever looked at an animal and thought about how ugly it was. The only animal I think are a bit ugly are pigs and some primates.
The one living thing that I know of, so far, that truly horrifies me are earthworms. Those ugly things are like zombie intestines that come crawling out of the earth, as if they were finishing their trip from the fiery depths of hell. I lost my <

> when one of those cold, slimy, abominations of nature tried to make a burrow in my hand. (Of course it was painless. But 100 per cent pure EWW!)

 

[lordhero3k]

David Attenborough with giant earthworms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO4lkv-jLRs

 

[Spepper]

Parasites of any kind freak me out but worms—oh goodness. Earthworms don't bother me horribly just because they aren't parasites (something I tell myself repeatedly whenever I see one LOL). Parasite worms I am terrified of for some reason.

Well back to vertebrates... I can't really think of an animal that is cute as a baby but gets ugly as an adult. Usually if they're ugly at all, in my opinion, it's as a baby. I think baby birds are usually pretty ugly or baby rabbits that haven't grown their fur yet. Same goes with pretty much anything that is born "naked" and grows its fur or feathers a bit later.

 

[lizardminion]

David Attenborough with giant earthworms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO4lkv-jLRs

Gee thanks lol

 

[lordhero3k]

The only animal I don't like very much is ants (around the house at least, don't mind them in forests, etc.). I had a canary who got killed by ants when we had a bit of an infestation. He tried to eat ants and I guess they were crawling up his throats or something because he choked on them. Now if we ever have ants in the house I get pretty uncomfortable.

 

[PlaidJaguar]

Almost sounds like we're getting input from an alien. LOL

That would explain an awful lot...