monday's attack of the AWWWWWWW!!

i have been posting 'monday's attack of the awwwwww!!' for a while now, and failed to explain the criteria i use to choose these darling, cuddly wuddly, cutesy-wootsie animals.. there is an actual formula which determines which sweeties get to be called "awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww-i-riffic"..

well, wait no longer, cause here they are - the 27 rules of cuteness:

1. put your paw up

2. look helpless

3. have an inquisitive look

4. more than one species of animals flopping around together is cute

5. fisheye lens + baby animal = always cute

6. mimic humans

7. a thing, accompanied by a smaller version of that thing, is always cute

8. it's cute if your furniture doubles as a meal

9. piles of a cute thing jack up a cuteness rating exponentially

10. if you haven't grown into your feet yet, it's cute

11. cute animal + food = even cuter

12. fuzz + floppy limbs = cutesy

13. "juicy" eyes and noses

14. if an everyday, small item makes you look even smaller, it's cute

15. small ear to head ratio - too cute!

16. awwww shoot - nevermind...

17. have itty bitty ears

18. have a teeny tiny tail

19. dainty paws are just darn cute

20. showing those dainty paw pads is so cute

21. eye capsules are bizarrely cute

22. curl up your paw

23. those knobby knees make you cute

24. suction cups on your feet are tres cute

25. dangle your paw - awwwww, that's cute!

26. if you have four legs, and can tuck yourself in, you just might be cute!

27. sleepy eyes are just da bomb of cute-i-tude!