Interspecies flock life comes with all kinds of perks. You can count on always being the best-looking one in group photos. You have plenty of “beta” flock mates to boss around. If another flock member’s breakfast looks better than yours, you can poach it. Of course, the same holds true in reverse, and you can’tContinueContinue reading “Day 220: The Cockatiel & the Breakfast Bowl”
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Day 219: Box Turtle Gets Back to Basics
In the world today, there is a massive movement focused on “getting back to basics.” And when it’s all said and done, there is nothing more basic than a good old-fashioned log. Logs are so functional and multi-purpose. They are also quite manly and masculine (a side perk if you happen to be a soloContinueContinue reading “Day 219: Box Turtle Gets Back to Basics”
Day 218: Tortoise Makes Friends With Cockatiel
“Cuteness” is a great way to make new friends. But when you are born very cute and have so many beings who want to be friends with you, it can take some time to get around to everyone on the waiting list. You do your best, of course, because that is just the kind ofContinueContinue reading “Day 218: Tortoise Makes Friends With Cockatiel”
Day 217: A Cockatiel and His Wonderful Wicker
Every being has their own favorite hobbies. Your small shelled brother, Bruce, likes swimming in his pool, hunting slimy wriggling things and burrowing in hay. Whatever works. Your less-small shelled sister, Malti, likes uprooting green beings, digging in dirt and eating yucky things she finds on the lawn. No accounting for taste. Your large featherlessContinueContinue reading “Day 217: A Cockatiel and His Wonderful Wicker”
Day 216: Box Turtle Meets “The Hand”
Shelled beings are quite cute and compact. If you popped out wearing a shell on your back, you definitely won the design lottery. If you can fit completely inside your box and hinge it shut, this means you are a “box turtle.” (It also means there are modern safes that aren’t as secure as youContinueContinue reading “Day 216: Box Turtle Meets “The Hand””
Day 215: The Emotional Support Tortoise
When your little flock consists of one (perpetually nervous) feathered being, one (equally anxious) large shell-less being and two shelled beings, it doesn’t take advanced math to figure out who is there to support whom. Clearly, there is one shell for each of ’em! It also won’t take much time at all to discern thatContinueContinue reading “Day 215: The Emotional Support Tortoise”
Day 214: Cockatiel Perches in Perfect Form
There is nothing like cohabitating with an interspecies flock to make you really appreciate your own anatomy. Let’s say that one of the beings in your flock has one set of short legs and one set of long legs – but no feathers at all. This basically means she has no balance. No poise. PoorContinueContinue reading “Day 214: Cockatiel Perches in Perfect Form”
Day 213: The Box Turtle Selfie
There is such a thing as “selfie culture” today. This basically involves snapping pics of yourself all day, every day, so as to feature all of your good sides (you don’t want to leave any out on account of how they’ll feel, well, left out). This is easier for beings who only have one orContinueContinue reading “Day 213: The Box Turtle Selfie”
Day 212: Tortoise Greets World
Every being comes into this world differently. If you have a shell on your back, you will arrive inside of a very small escape pod called an “egg.” Of course, there are pros and cons to this arrival method. On the pro side, once the hatchling tortoise escape pod launches, conveying you to your destination,ContinueContinue reading “Day 212: Tortoise Greets World”
Day 211: Cockatiel Has Egg-citing News!
If ever there was the perfect invention, it would have to be the egg. First of all, it is a remarkably compact, efficient getaway vehicle (one worthy of .007 himself!) The egg is also so pleasingly round – not unlike a certain posh and plump (and oh-so-masculine and manly) feathered chest. Eggs bring great surprisesContinueContinue reading “Day 211: Cockatiel Has Egg-citing News!”
Love & Feathers & Shells 