When you rest in place for a long enough period of time, you might notice you are feeling peckish….or even developing cravings. (Although frankly, spend long enough cooped up with only your over-solicitous large shell-less mama and your small shrieking feathery brother for company and cravings will be the least of your worries.) Even so,ContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Redfoot Tortoise Munches Clover”
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Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Cockatiel Molting
Anyone who thinks “sheltering in place” can’t be cute clearly doesn’t have any feathers in their family tree. But for those who do, spending extended time at home in the company of a flock member lucky enough to have feathers may also give rise to, well, envy. Luckily, this issue is easily remedied. Just startContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Cockatiel Molting”
Being Brave with Bruce: the Story of How a Box Turtle Found Home
Pandemics are definitely one of those times when you realize you need each other. But they aren’t the only times. For example, let’s say you are a Texas 3-toed box turtle and you are lost. Somehow, you misplaced your home. Or maybe somebody built a shopping mall on top of it and that is whyContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: the Story of How a Box Turtle Found Home”
Resting in Place with Malti: Redfoot Tortoise Eats a Carrot
In times when big, long, hard to pronounce (not to mention hard to spell) words that start with letters like “P” and “C” are suddenly added to nearly every sentence, it can be hard to slow down. To simply stop, even. To settle in. Get comfortable. Take a load off. Take a rest. There areContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Redfoot Tortoise Eats a Carrot”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Cockatiel Napping
Masks. Gloves. Microscopic germs. Grumpy large featherless paparazzi issuing dire-sounding predictions about shortages of something deeply uninteresting called “hand sanitizer” (now if it was called “wing and talon sanitizer,” that might be something actually newsworthy). These are strange, scary times indeed that we are living through. It is hard to find comfort when life asContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Cockatiel Napping”
Craving Comfort and Cuteness? Pearl, Malti and Bruce to the Rescue!
Boy has this last collection of days felt strange. Some of us are feeling too much togetherness. Others of us are feeling too much aloneness. All of us are feeling too much anxiousness, which also means too little comfort. Luckily, our little flock happens to know an easy way to get a lot more ofContinueContinue reading “Craving Comfort and Cuteness? Pearl, Malti and Bruce to the Rescue!”
Our FREE GIFT to You: Download “Love & Feathers” the ebook!
Enjoy this FREE digital book, our gift to YOU! To our dearest extended flock, These are unprecedented (i.e. “really stressful”) times. Truly. But here’s the thing. Beings with feathers and shells don’t like stress. They REALLY don’t like stress. The moment stress knocks on the door, they are ready with beaks bared and claws extendedContinueContinue reading “Our FREE GIFT to You: Download “Love & Feathers” the ebook!”
Redfoot Tortoise Diet: Calcium, Phosphorus, Oxalates and More
The large shell-less assistant here…. When Malti first joined our little flock as a five-week-old hatchling redfoot tortoise, my approach to her feeding and care was basically the wrong approach. I had the initial thought – “Well, how hard could it be? I kept water turtles as a child and they were all really healthy!”ContinueContinue reading “Redfoot Tortoise Diet: Calcium, Phosphorus, Oxalates and More”
Box Turtle Takes a Dip in the Pool
Being Bruce isn’t a job for amateurs. Sure, those bright orange cheek patches and whirling red eyes and adorable yellow-dotted feet and – piece de resistance – perfect round box turtle nostrils look effortless. Maybe you were born with it. On second thought, you were definitely born with it. And there is nothing that setsContinueContinue reading “Box Turtle Takes a Dip in the Pool”
Redfoot Tortoise Gets Shell Scratches
Growing up can be itchy business. While many other beings may not look at your redfoot tortoise shell and see a living organism, you know differently. Your keratin-covered, bony shell, which is attached to your spinal column and skeleton, is literally what holds you up. When it grows, you grow….whether you were particularly wanting toContinueContinue reading “Redfoot Tortoise Gets Shell Scratches”
Love & Feathers & Shells 