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Being little and cute with feathers has its advantages. It also has certain disadvantages. For instance, because you’re small, sometimes you can be overlooked when meal time arrives. This is where it can be handy to adopt a “proactive” approach – what the large featherless beings seem to like to call “self serve.” Author: Shannon Cutts Co-Author:ContinueContinue reading “Day 264: Self Serve”

In the evolutionary scheme of things, predators and prey often adapt to each other’s tactics. For instance, when fish started swimming upwards to escape hungry dolphins, the dolphins developed “smiling” mouths….the better to catch upwards-swimming fish with. In the same way, when Cheerios began assuming complex disguises to evade dangerous predators (with feathers), those predatorsContinueContinue reading “Day 263: When Cheerios Try to Hide”

On holidays, many flocks like to celebrate by consuming traditional dishes. For instance, on Thanksgiving, a flock might traditionally consume waffles. They might also like to traditionally consume waffles on New Year’s Day. And of course birthdays and anniversaries (and any days really) are a perfect occasion to whip up a traditional festive meal of waffles.ContinueContinue reading “Day 262: A Festive Day of Liberation”

According to the U.S. Army FM 7-92, Chap. 4, “reconnaissance” means: …a mission to obtain information by visual observation or other detection methods, about the activities and resources of an enemy or potential enemy, or about the meteorologic, hydrographic, or geographic characteristics of a particular area. So basically what this means is that if you spyContinueContinue reading “Day 261: Greens Reconnaissance”

Every day is a new day when you live with one of the large featherless beings. For example, you just never know what they might bring home. On that same note, they are also oddly obsessed with something they call “time travel.” This always makes you glad you have feathers so you can travel whenever you want.ContinueContinue reading “Day 260: Time Travel”

While technically the large featherless beings are designed to assist the ones with the feathers, sometimes sheer necessity initiates a temporary role reversal. For instance, there are some (many) things that beings with feathers simply do better than beings who have no feathers. “Wrapping” is one such task. Author: Shannon Cutts Co-Author: Pearl Cutts

When you are unusually pretty and photograph very well, it typically won’t be long before the “prettiness scouts” will scout you right out. If they are savvy enough to offer you the right incentives (here think “chewy, crunchy, shiny, shreddable”) you might even agree to do a fashion shoot as their next cover model. Here,ContinueContinue reading “Day 258: Cover Model”

Every being has their own gift preferences. Some beings (typically the ones who don’t have any feathers) seem to appreciate sparkling rocks, bunches of green leaves with funny colored tops, and big bottles of some liquid that can make them act, well, odd. Other (more discerning) beings prefer gifts with a bit more variety and…..crunch. Author: ShannonContinueContinue reading “Day 257: Romancing the Gift”

There is no doubt “nesting season” can get competitive. Even when you clearly have the advantage in every way – from the prettiest, sleekest feathers to the poshest, comfiest casa – sometimes the ladybirds might still have trouble making up their minds. So then you need to break out the big guns to squash your competition onceContinueContinue reading “Day 256: “Outside the Box” Nesting”

Recently Mom brought home an unusually odd kind of being. It is small (like you) but has no feathers (like Mom). It is round (like you) but moves slowly and clumsily (like Mom). It also doesn’t seem to have any concept of “prettiness” (which is probably for the best, since it unfortunately doesn’t appear toContinueContinue reading “Day 255: Making Room for Malti”