When compared to Guineaworm-Onna-Stick, anything looks cuddly.
How about “Candy, the ‘Can Do’ Candirú”? I’m thinking that it could be a kind of Finding Nemo-type film. 
I have a cuddly toy echidna. It sleeps on my bed with me. 
I’ll go with “Nudie the Nay-saying Naked Mole Rat” - could have that whole “A Bug’s Life” vibe of the independent thinker vs. the hive mentality - but all pink and wrinkled and blind and stuff…
Think of all the merch tie-ins…
Or, more to the point, their alleys.
winces Oh, that’s disgusting.
Thank ewe.
…and the Basque said, “I wish it were dark.”