Sometimes you just want to curl up in something comfy. You might feel like this when not one, but two! shelled beings move into your household and then simply refuse to leave. Or you could feel like this when your large featherless scheduling coordinator makes an appointment for you with the scary large featherless beingContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: A Box Full of Feathers”
Author Archives: Shannon Cutts
Being Brave with Bruce: Box Turtle FaceTime
Going from the wild life to the pet life is guaranteed to be a big transition. You might do the same basic things each day, but why and how you do them is often very very different. Take meeting face to face, for instance. In a wildlife setting, meeting face to face typically only meansContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Box Turtle FaceTime”
Resting in Place with Malti: Me and My MommyGuard
You don’t have to be out of your small round white escape pod for very long before it becomes clear that the planet can be a dangerous place. Predators both enormous and infinitesimal are roaming about night and day, and no matter where you go and who you meet, everyone looks hungry. You would justContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Me and My MommyGuard”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Keep Calm and Molt On
Being born with feathers automatically makes you very brave. Need proof? You just keep waking up every morning. You don’t know what you will find. Maybe for 21 straight years full of months and days, everything has been just fine. But that doesn’t mean it always will be. One morning, you might wake up toContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Keep Calm and Molt On”
Being Brave with Bruce: Capture the Cup
Spending a lot (like, seriously, a LOT) of time together all of a sudden can really bring out the best in your flock mates. Or the worst. You start to notice how little things you previously found a non-issue or only mildly irritating have now become the proverbial pea under the pillow. Or mattress. OrContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Capture the Cup”
Resting in Place with Malti: Moving the Brick
In the world of the large shell-less beings, when someone is facing a big obstacle, there is such a thing as “raising the bar.” Taking it to the next level. Bringing your “A” game. Being in it to win it. Upping the ante (whatever an “ante” is). Of course, this is easier when your opponentContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Moving the Brick”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Color Coordination, Camouflage and Cuteness
With age comes wisdom. At least if you are born with feathers. Once you get to the stage in life where you have a whopping 21 years under your belt, you have learned there are some things you can control and some things you cannot control. For example, you can’t control those awful microscopic thingsContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Color Coordination, Camouflage and Cuteness”
Being Brave with Bruce: Hobbies for Shells
When you are small and scrumptious and wild, getting “bored” is not really a thing….reason being, being bored can turn into being plated (complete with parsley garnish) in short order. But when you live a life of leisure as a rescued box turtle, and especially when that life of leisure turns into a life ofContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Hobbies for Shells”
Resting in Place with Malti: Bask Your Troubles Away
Being born with a shell on your back can look like being born on easy street….and for good reason. Winded after a long hike? You can be enjoying all the comforts of home in the time it takes to sit down. No worries about getting lost, either – not when true north sits right aboveContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Bask Your Troubles Away”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Cute By Association
When you are born with a face (and a body, and wings, and a tail) that loves the limelight, it just makes sense that small rectangular flashing devices everywhere would want to be near you. After all, there’s nothing more comforting than looking really cute. When really tough stuff goes down on the small roundContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Cute By Association”
Love & Feathers & Shells 