Brunch traditions can look quite different depending on your species orientation. For example, let’s say you are a large featherless being. When you go out to brunch, you probably enjoy sitting in chairs, eating off china plates with shiny silver forks and knives, drinking your mimosas out of fluted glasses and your coffee out ofContinueContinue reading “Day 120: Box Turtle Brunch”
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Day 119: Tortoise Tracks
Being born with a very cute face can often mean the other very cute parts of you get routinely overlooked. But cuteness can only stand being under-appreciated for so long before it finds its own outlet to attract admiration. For instance, let’s say you have a really cute face, but you also have extremely cuteContinueContinue reading “Day 119: Tortoise Tracks”
Day 118: Cockatiel Discovers Mystery Muffin
When your reputation as .007, pint-sized super spy, precedes you, you can count on getting called in to consult on some pretty strange cases. Since every one of these cases is unique, often you have no precedent to refer to – just your own gut instinct to guide your recommendations. This also applies to theContinueContinue reading “Day 118: Cockatiel Discovers Mystery Muffin”
Day 117: Just Another Green Leaf
Becoming an expert at camouflage takes time. This is true even if you were born with a knack for it that you inherited from basically every other 3 toed box turtle who has ever lived. All things considered, some of your disguise ideas will just work out better than others. So it can be aContinueContinue reading “Day 117: Just Another Green Leaf”
Day 116: We Eat Them Tasty Books
It is hungry work carrying around a big heavy shell on your back. On the plus side, anytime you are ready to go home, you can just sit down. On the minus side, sometimes wherever you happen to be when you are ready to rest doesn’t offer the best selection of snacks. But, fortification beingContinueContinue reading “Day 116: We Eat Them Tasty Books”
Day 115: Cockatiel Trains Large Featherless Waitress
Training a large featherless waitress can feel like a long (oh so long) and uphill road. You may have to send your order back once, more than once or many times before she finally gets it right. But when she does at last master a lesson, you want to be sure to let her knowContinueContinue reading “Day 115: Cockatiel Trains Large Featherless Waitress”
Day 114: The Wonderful Woodpile
There are pros and cons to living the life of a pet box turtle. In your former wild life, you were free to come and go and do as you pleased. Of course, this also meant predators were free to try to eat you for dinner (or breakfast or lunch or mid-afternoon snack) as theyContinueContinue reading “Day 114: The Wonderful Woodpile”
Day 113: Redfoot Tortoise Takes a Walk
When you live in an interspecies flock, it is important to find activities all flock members enjoy so you have fun things to do together. For instance, maybe everyone in your flock likes to hang out on the lawn. So you take a few deep breaths together, oxygenate, soak in some vitamin D, chew clover,ContinueContinue reading “Day 113: Redfoot Tortoise Takes a Walk”
Day 112: Parrot Builds Nest for Ladybirds Only
Discovering a new nesting site with great potential is so exciting! You can already visualize your feathery other half moving in, settling down, popping out a few eggs and raising chicks that look exactly like you! But while you are working away to get your new nest ready, you also have to keep your eyesContinueContinue reading “Day 112: Parrot Builds Nest for Ladybirds Only”
Day 111: Box Turtle Body Language
Life in an interspecies flock is going to present some challenges. For instance, there is communication. How do you communicate with one another to let your flock members know, for example, that not everything you want to share needs to be shrieked out at full volume? Or that you would like to come OUT ofContinueContinue reading “Day 111: Box Turtle Body Language”
Love & Feathers & Shells 