Being a part of the greater food chain o’ life means staying present. If it is breakfast time, for example, you definitely want to stay focused on breakfast. Getting it and not becoming it, that is. Some mornings, it might be all you can do to forage up sufficient victuals to get you through toContinueContinue reading “Bruce the Box Turtle: Box Lunch”
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Pearl the Cockatiel: Orange You Hungry
There is no doubt that, in the greater wild world of eat or be eaten, size matters. (To be honest, it also doesn’t hurt to have fangs.) But just because you didn’t pop out pre-equipped with a ready set of full body armor doesn’t mean you can’t be fierce. VERY fierce. In fact, being smallContinueContinue reading “Pearl the Cockatiel: Orange You Hungry”
Bruce the Rescued Box Turtle: Making Contact
When you are born with a completely secure mobile home perched right on top of your own four legs, it is pretty hard to imagine life without it. That handy box helps you avoid oh so many of life’s perils, from awkward social exchanges to being plated and served. But sometimes your box can getContinueContinue reading “Bruce the Rescued Box Turtle: Making Contact”
Pearl the Cockatiel: Work Life Balance
Some mornings you open your (adorable, round, black) eyes and stretch your wings and look forward to a whole day of resting and relaxing. And some mornings you wake up and there is work to be done. Lots of work. Luckily, being covered in feathers automatically makes you an expert on “work.” You can workContinueContinue reading “Pearl the Cockatiel: Work Life Balance”
Bruce the Rescued Box Turtle: If One Is Good Two Is Better
Good looks are good looks. You know when you’ve got them. And how you know is when your admirers just keep showing up. You hide under your cute curved olive-toned shell. But the moment you peek one of your whirling red eyes back out again, there they are. Waiting. Eagerly. You sneak underneath your fernsContinueContinue reading “Bruce the Rescued Box Turtle: If One Is Good Two Is Better”
Bruce the Rescued Box Turtle: Ferns Are Friends
Ferns are friends. They are so gentle. So welcoming. So multi-purpose. If a single and seeking eligible lady box turtle happens along, their vibrant green colors can set off your bright orange cheek patches and whirling red eyes to perfection! On the other hand, if you have a visitor and they start to look hungry,ContinueContinue reading “Bruce the Rescued Box Turtle: Ferns Are Friends”
Malti the Redfoot Tortoise: Micro Gardening
When you are born with a shell and a beak handily equipped with its own set of sharp garden shears, you know that what grows up must come down. Or something like that. In the world of the large shell-less beings, this is often termed “micro gardening.” Let’s say you have a small space whereContinueContinue reading “Malti the Redfoot Tortoise: Micro Gardening”
Pearl the Cockatiel: the Potato Pouncer
Potatoes are large. They are round. They favor earth tones. Suffice it to say, a potato can be a fearsome predator. That is, unless you know how to quickly dispatch one. (Here, it helps to have a large featherless chef who can, ahem, pre-cut each predator down to size. Preferably bite-size.) Even so, size isn’tContinueContinue reading “Pearl the Cockatiel: the Potato Pouncer”
Being Brave with Bruce: the Tallest Box Turtle in the World
As a being covered by a solid stealth shell both top and bottom, you know firsthand how appearances can be deceiving. Other beings might look at you and see only what they choose to see. Hungry beings might see lunch (as in you, plated and served. shudder.). Lady shelled beings might see a suave soloContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: the Tallest Box Turtle in the World”
Malti the Redfoot Tortoise: Rainbow Hugs
Just being born with a shell automatically makes you a great candidate for being an ambassador animal. If you happen to be both shelled and ectothermic (or what your large shell-less assistant likes to call “cold-blooded”) you are even more qualified. After all, you are one of the longest-lived species on this small round blueContinueContinue reading “Malti the Redfoot Tortoise: Rainbow Hugs”
Love & Feathers & Shells 