Fully furnished nests are a rarity in the world of feathered beings, especially as the spring nesting season really gets underway. If you want to find the best real estate, you need to start your scouting early. But occasionally, even late in the game, a true gem might suddenly appear. When this happens, you wantContinueContinue reading “Day 100: Cockatiel Digs Into Tortilla Chips for Two”
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Day 99: Digging Is Good for the Soul
Even though you have a super-secure hinged safe sitting right on top of your legs, a smart and survival-savvy 3 toed box turtle always likes to have a Plan B in his back pocket. So to speak. You can definitely climb, but that is not always the right response in every situation. You’re a fair-to-middlingContinueContinue reading “Day 99: Digging Is Good for the Soul”
Day 98: Tortoise Hydration
The large shell-less being here…. Tropical species such as, say, the South American redfoot tortoise, really need plenty of humidity and hydration daily to stay happy and healthy. If conditions get too dry, lots of bad things can happen…and did happen, as I’ve shared in detail on her blog. All that to say, here atContinueContinue reading “Day 98: Tortoise Hydration”
Day 97: Cockatiel Claims One Found Mouse
If you live in a flock where you have many flock mates yet only one rectangular shiny device with the crispy keys, sometimes you have to get creative about claiming your turn. Rather than whine about how your large featherless flock mate is monopolizing the device yet again, you can challenge yourself to find anotherContinueContinue reading “Day 97: Cockatiel Claims One Found Mouse”
Day 96: The Best Shell Color
Being a card-carrying shelled member of the food chain can give you a lot to think about, evolutionarily speaking. You really, really, really want to make good choices. For example, let’s say you choose to be born with a certain type of shell coloration. This coloration, while clearly edgy and fashion-forward, can look rather oddContinueContinue reading “Day 96: The Best Shell Color”
Day 95: Tortoise Is A Leg Giveaway
“Cuteness” is widely considered to be an extremely desirable trait. But there are times it can turn into a liability. For instance, when you are very cute and you want to get away from it all and enjoy a restful nap, you may find that no sooner have you settled your adorable shelled self down,ContinueContinue reading “Day 95: Tortoise Is A Leg Giveaway”
Day 94: Emotional Support Birds R Us
The large featherless beings think they are so clever, with those bumper stickers and t-shirts proclaiming “Who Rescued Who?” But when you have feathers, fur or a shell, you don’t even have to ask that question, let alone wait for an answer. Rescuing. It’s just what you do. Of course, if someone absolutely insists onContinueContinue reading “Day 94: Emotional Support Birds R Us”
Day 93: What Has Red Eyes and Is Not Albino?
If you are born with fur or hair (like, say, your large shell-less mama) and you have red or pinkish tinted eyes, you might be an albino. In fact, even if you were born with a shell and your eyes are red or reddish, you might be an albino. Albino beings look the way theyContinueContinue reading “Day 93: What Has Red Eyes and Is Not Albino?”
Day 92: Tortoise Visits Shelled Support Circle
Living amongst the large shell-less beings has its perks. There are the gourmet hand-fed meals, the shell scratches, the cozy heated seats. But life in an interspecies flock also has its drawbacks….like the continually lurking paparazzi, the needy single box turtle living one habitat over from yours, your small shrieking feathered brother. Sometimes you justContinueContinue reading “Day 92: Tortoise Visits Shelled Support Circle”
Day 91: One of These Isn’t Like the Others
The large featherless being here…. When you live in an interspecies flock, every day is a chance to see your familiar world in a whole new way…..and sometimes in an “I think I live with E.T.” kind of way. For instance, maybe I’m just going about my normal daily routine as usual. And then atContinueContinue reading “Day 91: One of These Isn’t Like the Others”
Love & Feathers & Shells 