Being a card carrying member of the wild life doesn’t leave much time for making friends. After all, everybody needs to eat…every single day. You know the moment you wake up each morning that it is game on once again. All day, every day, you keep your eyes peeled for delicacies while remaining hyper-aware thatContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Opening Up the Box”
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Being Brave with Bruce: Two Shells Is Better
There is no doubt that “the shell” is a very good design. It is lightweight, attractive, sleek and stealthy. Tired? Take a snooze inside your shell. Looking for lunch? Hunker down in your shell to scope for snacks. Looking like lunch? Snap shut and send the predator packing for greener (well, browner) pastures. Depending onContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Two Shells Is Better”
Being Brave with Bruce: Good Luck Box Turtle
Moving into an interspecies flock means getting a crash course in how other species see the world. For example, you might notice that your large shell-less rescue mama really has a thing for these small round red creatures with dots and antennae. She seems to feel better – luckier – when they are around. You,ContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Good Luck Box Turtle”
Being Brave with Bruce: Box Upgrade
It can be advantageous to have a totally secure box you can close yourself up into whenever danger strikes. Then again, it can also be awfully lonely. It can be easy to psych yourself out, in there all by yourself. Obviously, the ideal scenario would be to invite a friend to shelter inside your boxContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Box Upgrade”
Being Brave with Bruce: Hugs and Head Pats
Sometimes you wake up, hear the latest news and realize…. You need a hug. Or a head pat. Or maybe many head pats. Hugs and head pats won’t make the bad news go away. But they sure can make you feel braver to bear it! (Not to mention very, very loved.) Pearl, Malti, Bruce &ContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Hugs and Head Pats”
Being Brave with Bruce: A Very Good Day
Some days you wake up and just know nothing will ever be the same again. Maybe a sizable rock slams into your small round blue planet and suddenly you have to quickly relocate underground. (On the plus side, when you finally do re-emerge, your huge slavering fanged neighbors appear to be no more. Whew.) OrContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: A Very Good Day”
Being Brave with Bruce: Breaking Out the Cuteness
There’s nothing like a big, unwelcome, unwanted worldwide event (like the kind that begins with a capital “P”) to make you oh-so-aware of how different species can have different coping styles. For example, some of your flock mates like a lot of togetherness (typically these are the ones covered in feathers). Others of your flock mates prefer to seekContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Breaking Out the Cuteness”
Being Brave with Bruce: Box Turtle FaceTime
Going from the wild life to the pet life is guaranteed to be a big transition. You might do the same basic things each day, but why and how you do them is often very very different. Take meeting face to face, for instance. In a wildlife setting, meeting face to face typically only meansContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Box Turtle FaceTime”
Being Brave with Bruce: Capture the Cup
Spending a lot (like, seriously, a LOT) of time together all of a sudden can really bring out the best in your flock mates. Or the worst. You start to notice how little things you previously found a non-issue or only mildly irritating have now become the proverbial pea under the pillow. Or mattress. OrContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Capture the Cup”
Being Brave with Bruce: Hobbies for Shells
When you are small and scrumptious and wild, getting “bored” is not really a thing….reason being, being bored can turn into being plated (complete with parsley garnish) in short order. But when you live a life of leisure as a rescued box turtle, and especially when that life of leisure turns into a life ofContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Hobbies for Shells”
Love & Feathers & Shells 