You may only hug it once.
Kate Upton as long as she was okay with it
Bears! Large, furry, all-enveloping hugs. And have you seen their little round ears? 🥺
I’m going with a tiger. They’re gorgeous, with lots of soft fur for ultimate cuddliest, and they’re a giant cat. 100% tiger
specifically a Siberian tiger
Ooooh good call yes I’ll go siberian too
for xxtra floomph
Good choice!
What about a liger?
What’s a liger?
One of the two hybrids than can come from a tiger mating with a lion. Specifically, it’s male lion and female tiger.
The other is a tigon, female lion male tiger
Ooooh yes I’d deffo hug that
Good news: they tend to be much larger than tigers so there’s even more to hug!
Female tiger × male lion. They can grow even larger than either species due to how the growth genes are crossed.
Red Panda
Excellent choice! Can I share that photo in !aww@lemmy.world
Unfortunately I can’t claim the image as my own! One of many many cute ones I found from an image search.
Ah that definitely sounds shareable! Thanks
I would definitely hug a bear!
We already do, regularly 😁
Everyone has picked mammals, which is probably the best choice. The downside is you said only hug it once, and I think the big cats, pandas of both varieties, and bears you would want to hug again.
I will go whale shark. They look cool, are massive, you promised safety, so the invincibility is better spent in the actual diving than the animals, and as it’s a fish, one hug would likely be satisfactory.
Excellent choice! I approve of the thought process.
Having touched a decent number of animals most people haven’t touched, I felt the need to get a bit creative.
Of the many oddballs I’ve gotten to interact with, gotta say Old World Porcupines wouldn’t be the first to come to mind, but it may be the most satisfying animal I’ve touched, and I recommend it with no reservations!
Look at this beauty! This here is a Cape Porcupine.
Great variety of textures.
The obvious pokey bits, you doooo need to watch how you touch them. There are thick ones that are pretty solid, though still hollow but don’t flex. There are longer and thinner ones, and these are pretty cool. They are almost like really long soda straws. You can’t outright bend it, but they’re spingy.
Moving up to the torso, those hairs are still plasticky, but like artificial Easter grass or that fake grass carpet made out of my old soda bottles, but longer strands.
Now we get to the real prize though… Those ears! The other bits were fun to touch, but all plasticky. Its tiny little ears are the softest velvet your fingers could handle as a mortal being. Zebras are really soft, but not as much as these teensy ears.
And while you’re scritching those ears, you look into that face like a huge otter. There are some big rodent teeth, but give it some sliced banana and it will nip through the peel and nibble up all that goodness. It’ll be like a puppy and jump on your lap looking for more nanners, and that’s a little scary as you’re still thinking about all those pokey bits, but they’re all in the rear, so your safe, and you just go back to scratching its face and torso.
If you love unusual animals, get your hands on one of these if there’s a place near you doing animal experiences. 10 out of 10 stars!
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Panda
Polar bear! Wow, it would be AMAZING. I might do it anyway one day
My cat.
Puma, they’re such a beautiful big kitty. But I might trade in my wish on getting my own little kitty to be less spicy and enjoy pets and cuddles more, if that could be permanent.
