Jessica the Hippo

So last week my roommate and I finally stopped being cheap bitches and got cable. Since last Tuesday I have watched enough television to more than make up for my long tenure without more than 6 clear channels.

I will be forever grateful to cable because last night I discovered Jessica the Hippo on Animal Planet.

Jessica is an orphaned hippo that this South African couple saved after a flood and raised in their home. She's really something else. Jessica top loves are eating sweet potatoes, drinking coffee and playing with puppies. Watching this hippo play with puppies is the sweetest. They tried to get her to eat healthier and stopped giving her sweet potatoes and the poor baby got DEPRESSED!! She's also very curious about her surroundings and likes to go in the house. She got really good at opening doors and loved to go in and lay on the her owners' bed. Shoot me already before I die from cute overload!!! The hippo can open doors!!!

The sad part is that the attempts to reintroduce her to the wild haven't been working so well. But she has a human family that loves her so much, she gets a massage every night before she goes to bed so that's a plus for NOT being in the wild. My family definitely did not give me a nightly massage while I was growing up.

How can you not just fall right in love with Jessica?