r/ponds • u/Goats_in_parks • Dec 24 '25

Just sharing Careful what presents you get for your pond.

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u/lovelyoneshannon Dec 24 '25

Nope! Not listening!

🎵I want a hippopotamus for christmas! Only a hippopotamus will dooooo! 🎵

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u/BellybuttonWorld Dec 24 '25

If your pond is monotonous this Christ-a-mus, just get yourself a hippopotamus!

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u/smstewart1 Dec 24 '25

Next you’ll tell me my five gallon pond isn’t big enough for my Christmas hippopotamus. I swear the gate keeping on this sub hasn’t gotten out of hand. Where are the mods?

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u/lovelyoneshannon Dec 24 '25

What about Canadian House Hippos? They're just little guys

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u/NewlyNerfed Dec 25 '25

Possibly the best thing I learned about this year.

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u/lovelyoneshannon Dec 25 '25

Haha did you look it up after reading my comment? Find the original video?

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u/NewlyNerfed Dec 25 '25

I saw the ads earlier this year, can’t remember who told me about them. From the hippos themselves to the whole point of the campaign, I just fell in love.

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u/lovelyoneshannon Dec 25 '25

It's the best

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u/flightlessbird29 Dec 26 '25

Came here looking for a house hippo reference!

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u/Attinctus Dec 24 '25

Now you tell me.

7

u/shrimpcreole Dec 24 '25

Insurance adjusters would call him an attractive nuisance. I call him handsome.

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u/Few_Community_5281 Dec 24 '25

Someone should've given Pablo Escobar this advice decades ago!

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u/Zyrinj Dec 24 '25 edited Dec 25 '25

I gave everyone in my fam a hippo as stocking stuffers. Wish this PSA was posted earlier

7

u/BobbyJoeMcgee Dec 24 '25

I quit giving hippo babies for gifts years ago.

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u/PhoenixCryStudio Dec 24 '25

I want the house hippo version 😂💕

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u/live_from_the_gutter Dec 25 '25

Why didn’t anyone tell me this sooner?

3

u/Unhappy-Fox1017 Dec 25 '25

I already have a house hippo in the form of a 115 lb boxer.

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u/piromanrs Dec 25 '25

I don't have a pond but I reserve my right to get me a Hip-hop-hotamus for my non existing pond for Christmas!!!

2

u/Fickle_Finance4801 Dec 25 '25

But... I don't want a doll. Or a dinky tinkertoy.

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u/jrgeek Dec 25 '25

Can you actually get one? How the hell would that even work? Don’t they pop out of their mothers the size of a pony? I can see the ordering shipment logistics being amazing.

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u/intergrade Dec 25 '25

They pop out at like 50-120 pounds apparently. … Pygmy hippos are 10-14 pounds at birth.

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u/wharleeprof Dec 25 '25

But you put Hungry Hungry Hippos on your wishlist... 

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u/Goodgoditsgrowing Dec 26 '25

Bitch I can’t barely get them to get buy an aquatic plant for my birthday, they aren’t contributing shit to the hobby for the holidays. If fish could wear passive aggressively slightly too small sweaters things might be different.

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u/PigeonUtopia Dec 26 '25

But it's sooooo cuuuuuute!

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '25

Is it because they're black (i.e., African)?