Being Brave with Bruce: Box Turtle Selfies

Over the last several weeks, most of us have gotten a heaping helping of our own company. Some of us may love this. Others, not so much. Those who are cooped up (er, sheltering in place) with their nearest and dearest may actually be wishing for a bit more time with ourselves….and only ourselves. But even so,ContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Box Turtle Selfies”

Resting in Place with Malti: Redfoot Tortoise Munches Clover

When you rest in place for a long enough period of time, you might notice you are feeling peckish….or even developing cravings. (Although frankly, spend long enough cooped up with only your over-solicitous large shell-less mama and your small shrieking feathery brother for company and cravings will be the least of your worries.) Even so,ContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Redfoot Tortoise Munches Clover”

Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Cockatiel Molting

Anyone who thinks “sheltering in place” can’t be cute clearly doesn’t have any feathers in their family tree. But for those who do, spending extended time at home in the company of a flock member lucky enough to have feathers may also give rise to, well, envy. Luckily, this issue is easily remedied. Just startContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Cockatiel Molting”

Being Brave with Bruce: the Story of How a Box Turtle Found Home

Pandemics are definitely one of those times when you realize you need each other. But they aren’t the only times. For example, let’s say you are a Texas 3-toed box turtle and you are lost. Somehow, you misplaced your home. Or maybe somebody built a shopping mall on top of it and that is whyContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: the Story of How a Box Turtle Found Home”

Resting in Place with Malti: Redfoot Tortoise Eats a Carrot

In times when big, long, hard to pronounce (not to mention hard to spell) words that start with letters like “P” and “C” are suddenly added to nearly every sentence, it can be hard to slow down. To simply stop, even. To settle in. Get comfortable. Take a load off. Take a rest. There areContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Redfoot Tortoise Eats a Carrot”

Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Cockatiel Napping

Masks. Gloves. Microscopic germs. Grumpy large featherless paparazzi issuing dire-sounding predictions about shortages of something deeply uninteresting called “hand sanitizer” (now if it was called “wing and talon sanitizer,” that might be something actually newsworthy). These are strange, scary times indeed that we are living through. It is hard to find comfort when life asContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Cockatiel Napping”

Craving Comfort and Cuteness? Pearl, Malti and Bruce to the Rescue!

Boy has this last collection of days felt strange. Some of us are feeling too much togetherness. Others of us are feeling too much aloneness. All of us are feeling too much anxiousness, which also means too little comfort. Luckily, our little flock happens to know an easy way to get a lot more ofContinueContinue reading “Craving Comfort and Cuteness? Pearl, Malti and Bruce to the Rescue!”