Shannon Cutts

Day 240: Happy Birthday, Tall Tree!

One of the perks of being the cutest flock member is you’re everyone’s favorite party guest. No matter whose birthday it actually is or who is planning the festivities, your name is first on the guest list and the hostess won’t rest until you send in your RSVP. Often, the event planners will even craftContinueContinue reading “Day 240: Happy Birthday, Tall Tree!”

Day 239: The Begging Tortoise

There is a reason shelled beings have a reputation for preferring solitary life. When you find choice victuals, you don’t have to share. Flock life has its merits, but sooner or later you are going to find yourself staring down that time-honored flock ritual called “waiting your turn.” Yuck. If tortoises were meant to takeContinueContinue reading “Day 239: The Begging Tortoise”

Day 238: Wet Bird Couture Presents “Count Cockatielula”

Being a superbirdmodel isn’t for every feathered being. You have to be quite self-assured and confident in your own feathers. You’ve got to be patient enough to wait until everyone around you gets how great you are and starts celebrating you like the superstar you already know you are. Turning a competitive foe into aContinueContinue reading “Day 238: Wet Bird Couture Presents “Count Cockatielula””

Day 237: Box Turtle Finds Fountain of Youth

It is no secret that being outfitted from birth with a cozy shell is convenient. As a box turtle who can easily live for 50 years or longer, having a shell can also help you stay looking younger for longer! By keeping your shell-less parts carefully shielded from the sun, rain and elements, your skinContinueContinue reading “Day 237: Box Turtle Finds Fountain of Youth”

Day 236: The Case of the Missing Tortoise Snacks

Everyone knows that snacks can be slippery. Just like any prey species, they have a tendency to sneak away if you take your eyes off them. The more, well, seasoned the snacks get, the better they become at hiding right out in plain sight. You could be sitting right on top of them and notContinueContinue reading “Day 236: The Case of the Missing Tortoise Snacks”

Day 235: Animal Crackers for Cockatiels

From the outside in, life as a famous and feathery celebrity seems so posh and perfect. You are celebrated and sought-after. Everyone wants to take selfies with you (and no one minds when you outshine them again and again). You wake up every day to stacks of fan mail and piles of gifts. Of course,ContinueContinue reading “Day 235: Animal Crackers for Cockatiels”

Day 234: Those Box Turtle Ears

Keeping company with the large shell-less beings gives you a crash course in interspecies differences. You are just so different! For example (and there is really no nice way to say this) the shell-less beings have no….shell. Poor things. It is hard to look really attractive – not to mention mount an effective defense -ContinueContinue reading “Day 234: Those Box Turtle Ears”

Day 233: Little Tortoise Crunching

Some beings pop out of the egg and can just sing. Others emerge with a whole repertoire of fancy schmancy dance moves already downloaded and ready to rock. Still others are all about whipping up culinary masterpieces, crafting world-class art, solving immense sums in their head…each feat more remarkable than the last and all seeminglyContinueContinue reading “Day 233: Little Tortoise Crunching”

Day 232: Cockatiel in Corn Muffin Questioning

There is a reason most top-secret “black ops” agents opt for low-key cover identities. It is easy enough to blend in when your day gig doesn’t raise any eyebrows. No one follows their water meter reader or internet repair person around the block begging for selfies and beak-o-graphs. But there are also perks that comeContinueContinue reading “Day 232: Cockatiel in Corn Muffin Questioning”

Day 231: Box Turtle Doubles Down on Hay

As a true Texas 3-toed box turtle, you are a southern gentleman to your core. But no lady box turtle is going to know this just by looking at you…unless you make sure your outsides match your insides. If you want to communicate “true Texas box turtle who will make beautiful eggs” there is onlyContinueContinue reading “Day 231: Box Turtle Doubles Down on Hay”