Human ears just look so weird on any other creature. It's not even the fact that they're hairless, since there's a number of animals that have bald ears/tails/whathaveyou. And when you add animal parts to humans, while sometimes odd, it usually just doesn't have that unsettling factor to it. The croon just hits that 'it's so cute' button in me. And the way the meat is a darker red than the blood on its muzzle, when just glancing at the picture, I keep on thinking it's wearing a bow tie and that it's goind to start cracking jokes.

Oh, my muses are being poked just fine, thank you very much. It's just that they're flighty little buggers and once I have an outline for a fic or have it half way done, they abandon it to work on another. And it's all I can do to finish the ones I started on. Like I said, it's not so much you poking them as getting them/me to focus and finish that's the problem.