Being born with a shell on your back can look like being born on easy street….and for good reason. Winded after a long hike? You can be enjoying all the comforts of home in the time it takes to sit down. No worries about getting lost, either – not when true north sits right aboveContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Bask Your Troubles Away”
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Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Cute By Association
When you are born with a face (and a body, and wings, and a tail) that loves the limelight, it just makes sense that small rectangular flashing devices everywhere would want to be near you. After all, there’s nothing more comforting than looking really cute. When really tough stuff goes down on the small roundContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Cute By Association”
Being Brave with Bruce: Box Turtle Stealth Sheltering
Whenever someone tells you to stay put for any reason, it is important to pay attention to the nuances. Try to notice what they don’t say as well as what they do say. For example, they might tell you to “shelter in place.” But then they don’t specify the place. This means you get toContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Box Turtle Stealth Sheltering”
Resting in Place with Malti: Accessorizing with Hibiscus
After you have been resting in place for some time, it can be easy to let certain aspects of personal appearance, well…..go. In other words, if you keep bathing, you do it because you love it, not because those around you demand it. But sometimes it can also feel good to get decked out, justContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Accessorizing with Hibiscus”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Waffle Power
Sometimes when you have a lot of stress (and also when you don’t have a lot of stress) you might find yourself craving waffles. It is easy to assume this is just because waffles taste so good. Which, of course, they do. But did you ever stop to think how cute you look consuming waffles?ContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Waffle Power”
Being Brave with Bruce: Bring Your Own Box
There’s nothing like sticking close to home to create certain, well, shortages. The large shell-less beings really like to have plenty of these soft white round rolls that are sort of box turtle-sized and yet not. They don’t seem very useful, if you are being honest. What is very useful is to have your ownContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Bring Your Own Box”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Corralling the C Gang
Since time immemorial, “black ops” agents (regardless of size or species) have used two main tactical strategies to conduct missions: overt and covert. An example of an overt strategy might be adopting a cover identity and going out to conduct field surveillance by tailing the suspects all day. An example of a covert strategy mightContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Corralling the C Gang”
Being Brave with Bruce: Box Turtle Shelters in Place
Sheltering in place looks different for everyone. But it may feel more alike than different – down deep on the inside where only we can see. In fact, some beings have to shelter in place most of every single day – and not because of something globally scary that starts with the letter “C.” TheyContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Box Turtle Shelters in Place”
Resting in Place with Malti: A Basking Redfoot Tortoise
Learning how to rest in place with ease is harder than it looks. Would you believe some beings actually get, well, restless after they’ve been sitting still for some time? When you see this, it is a dead giveaway you are looking at an amateur rester (a technical term). Serious professional resters who are inContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: A Basking Redfoot Tortoise”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Cockatiel Roosting
Roosting in place isn’t always the most fun activity. But neither is “getting back out there again” – especially when you know that, at any time and without any warning at all, you may find yourself surrounded by super-scary microscopic criminals. As in, those criminals whose collective name begins with the “C” word. These criminalsContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Cockatiel Roosting”
Love & Feathers & Shells 