When you are born “on the half shell,” literally, you really don’t have time to ponder life’s more esoteric topics. All you know is everyone seems to want a piece of you, whether figuratively or otherwise. So long as you are super-healthy and fit and feeling fine, it is a slam-dunk decision to spend theContinue reading “Day 315: Box Turtle Wake-Up Call”
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Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Brumation Checks
This is Bruce’s third winter with our little flock. So this is also the third year he has brumated (hibernated) here in captivity. (I hate the word “captivity” by the way….but that is the reality of Bruce’s situation as a wild rescued box turtle who would have otherwise long ago become a road pancake. AndContinue reading “Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Brumation Checks”