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Snack time can present some interesting challenges when you live in an interspecies flock. For instance, one flock member might want waffles for his snack break. Another flock member might want blueberries – and lots of them. Yet another flock member might want mealworms, live and kicking. Here, since every flock member has very strongContinueContinue reading “Day 183: Box Turtle Gets the Mealworm Munchies”

When you are a very cute rescued box turtle and you know you have your rescue mommy wrapped tightly around your adorable 3-toed feet, you don’t need to talk in words to get your point across. You can just use the time-honored “box turtle mind meld” to let her know exactly what you want….like toContinueContinue reading “Day 156: Box Turtle Mind Meld”

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”

As a shelled being with a keen gustatory appreciation, it is important to strike just the right ambience before you dine. For example, you can enjoy your meal a lot more if you stop first to verify there are no slavering predators hovering about around the periphery. Also, it is easier to relax and enjoyContinueContinue reading “Day 108: Scoping Salmon”

After a long day of climbing, swimming, basking, digging and burrowing, a box turtle can work up quite an appetite! And while your typical catered dinner is reliably delicious and always well-timed, there is no substitute for the thrill of the hunt. Plus, this is the best way to guarantee your prey will be super-freshContinueContinue reading “Day 102: Hunting the Wild Earthworm”

Dinnertime in an interspecies flock can sure get interesting. There is your small loud feathery brother, who seems intent on repopulating the forest floor with his evening rice….not to mention anything else flingable he can purloin from his mommy’s dinner plate. Then there is your round and robust shelled sister who is always hungry andContinueContinue reading “Day 75: Marvelous Meaty Mealworms”

Bruce is a surprisingly picky eater! This has caused his mommy many, many stressful days and nights, worrying that he isn’t eating enough or enough variety to stay healthy and strong. It doesn’t help that, aside from the collection of water turtles we routinely rescued, cared for and released when I was a youngster, MaltiContinueContinue reading “Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Feeding”

Figuring out what to feed a newly rescued box turtle is not a job for the faint of heart (or mind). When Bruce first joined our little flock in May 2015, I figured he would probably like whatever Malti liked. Boy was I wrong. To this day, Bruce has never deigned to even sniff Malti’sContinueContinue reading “Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Protein”

Sometimes I feel like I literally couldn’t have chosen two more opposite shelled beings to welcome into our little flock. Where Malti is slow, Bruce is quick. Where Malti is always one nap away from her next nap, Bruce is up and raring to go before most roosters are awake. And where Malti prefers herContinueContinue reading “Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Earthworms”

From time to time, I work with an animal communicator just to check in with each one of my interspecies flock members to make sure I’m doing a good job as their mama. Every time we have a session together, I always learn so much! Each flock member always has plenty to say and expressesContinueContinue reading “Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Edible Grasses”