As you know, now and then we suspend our usual obsesssion with grotesque fashions for men and women, strange careers, dumb criminals and sickening cuisine, to offer up an adorable creature, instead.

Today’s “awwwwwwww!” moment comes courtesy of a very small polar bear cub in Germany, much like Knut, one of last year’s most popular animals. 

More cute animals in the news:

A handout picture shows a polar bear cub born by polar bear Vera at the zoo in Nuremberg. REUTERS/ Handout/Tiergarten Nuernberg  

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Well Blog Guy, it’s the holidays, and busy people have better things to do than just kill time at work by reading your blog. What do you plan to do to keep your traffic up?

I’m not sure yet. I do know if I were shameless, I’d probably scrounge around for a sweet photo of adorable animals. You know, like maybe a mother tiger hugging her cub. But I’m sure I’ll do better than that. Let’s see what I come up with.

A female Amur tiger, Iris, licks her two-month old cub in a cage in the municipal zoo Royev Ruchey in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, December 21, 2007. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin

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Blog Guy, I love the fact that now and then you stop being obnoxious - I mean sarcastic - and devote space in your blog to cute animals. But it’s always dogs and otters and pandas, dogs and otters and pandas…. Can’t you dig up something new and adorable?

I’ve been in a rut, but that’s over. Meet the jerboa, a very obscure creature that with the right marketing skills might just push otters and pandas right out of the limelight. Disney, are you people watching? Check out Benet Allen’s video report:

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As habitual readers of this blog  know, I can’t sustain a 100 percent sarcasm rate. It just wouldn’t be healthy.

So, now and then I take a quick break, usually to show adorable  animals, as in Heartwarming, charming, disarming.

Today’s recipe for lowering blood pressure involves Siberian tiger cubs,  playing at a zoo in Russia. We use the unfortunate word “rehome” in the story, which must  be some kind of “zoo-speak” invention. I guess if this is the season for regifting, rehoming can’t be far behind. Good thing regurgitation is already a word.

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Just when you least expect it, the usual sarcasm and absurdity in this blog take a brief vacation and you get a big helping of adorable, instead.

Here then, to make your weekend a little better, are ten of the most memorable animal posts we’ve had in recent months. They’re all great, but if you haven’t seen the last two items - the otters and Charlie the cat, you are in for an extra special treat.

Stop by and warm your heart…

You winsome, you lose some…

Knut the Cute…

Paging Christopher Robin…

I can’t talk, I’m a little horse…

No bunnies were harmed in shooting this photo

Guess I owe Disney some royalties?

Hold that tiger…

Do unto otters…

A couple of minutes with a special cat…

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Hey, Blog Guy, I know you’re a soft touch for really adorable animal stuff, and it’s been too long since you’ve posted anything like that. How about a fix?

Thanks for asking. I only post the very best, and your timing is perfect. I recommend this video clip about a cat named Charley, for the sweetest two minutes you’ll spend all month. The usual advice that goes along with these special animal moments: if you can’t find someone who will melt over this, you just have to get new friends. Here’s Charley:

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Regular readers know that occasionally, we suspend our obsession with the absurd, the ironic and the stupid, and devote space to the just plain adorable.

Judging from the traffic reports, even our jaded readers have a soft spot for cute animals, and if you missed last week’s Buster the Tiger slideshow, go have a look.

Today’s offering is a one-month-old leopard cub at Jordan Zoo, near Amman, photographed yesterday. As usual, a word of advice: if you don’t know anybody you can share this with, you’re hanging out with a bad element. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed

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Another reminder: while we welcome readers to this blog for a heaping daily portion of the ironic and sardonic, we do reserve the right to offer occasional heartwarming photos and video of the most adorable animals we can find, and we make no apology for it. Share this one with someone who will appreciate it. We will now return to our regularly scheduled absurdity.

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Anak, a 31-year-old Orangutan, holds her five-day-old baby Apie in her arms in Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, central Netherlands, July 31, 2007. The baby was born in captivity at the zoo. REUTERS/Michael Kooren

Every so often this blog reserves the right to take a very brief break from its regular diet of cynicism, sarcasm and absurdity, and offer up a heaping portion of the adorable.   

Today is our lucky day, especially after learning that this rabbit voluntarily hopped into the tiger cub’s cage, and lived to tell the tale. The usual advice: if you can’t think of anybody who would love to get this picture, you’re hanging out with a cold, cold, crowd.

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Tiger cub plays with a rabbit at a zoo in Wenling, east China’s Zhejian Province July 21, 2007.  REUTERS/China Daily

As you know, this blog promises a steady supply of cynicism, sarcasm, absurdity, and the cutest animals you’ll find anywhere on the Web.

Today’s dose of adorable comes courtesy of two tiger cubs you won’t believe. 

As usual, the video is served up with some lifestyle advice: if you can’t think of anyone whose day would be brightened by seeing this, you need to make new friends. Check it out:

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