Being a part of the greater food chain o’ life means staying present. If it is breakfast time, for example, you definitely want to stay focused on breakfast. Getting it and not becoming it, that is. Some mornings, it might be all you can do to forage up sufficient victuals to get you through toContinueContinue reading “Bruce the Box Turtle: Box Lunch”
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Malti the Redfoot Tortoise: If the Shell Fits
Living underneath your own custom shell is like carrying around a complete home gym. All you have to do to get fit is stand up and sit down. But while this brings with it certain multi-tasking advantages, in some circumstances it can also make navigation challenging. Especially when you forget it is there. For example,ContinueContinue reading “Malti the Redfoot Tortoise: If the Shell Fits”
Pearl the Cockatiel: Orange You Hungry
There is no doubt that, in the greater wild world of eat or be eaten, size matters. (To be honest, it also doesn’t hurt to have fangs.) But just because you didn’t pop out pre-equipped with a ready set of full body armor doesn’t mean you can’t be fierce. VERY fierce. In fact, being smallContinueContinue reading “Pearl the Cockatiel: Orange You Hungry”
Bruce the Rescued Box Turtle: Making Contact
When you are born with a completely secure mobile home perched right on top of your own four legs, it is pretty hard to imagine life without it. That handy box helps you avoid oh so many of life’s perils, from awkward social exchanges to being plated and served. But sometimes your box can getContinueContinue reading “Bruce the Rescued Box Turtle: Making Contact”
Pearl the Cockatiel: Work Life Balance
Some mornings you open your (adorable, round, black) eyes and stretch your wings and look forward to a whole day of resting and relaxing. And some mornings you wake up and there is work to be done. Lots of work. Luckily, being covered in feathers automatically makes you an expert on “work.” You can workContinueContinue reading “Pearl the Cockatiel: Work Life Balance”
Bruce the Rescued Box Turtle: If One Is Good Two Is Better
Good looks are good looks. You know when you’ve got them. And how you know is when your admirers just keep showing up. You hide under your cute curved olive-toned shell. But the moment you peek one of your whirling red eyes back out again, there they are. Waiting. Eagerly. You sneak underneath your fernsContinueContinue reading “Bruce the Rescued Box Turtle: If One Is Good Two Is Better”
Malti the Redfoot Tortoise: Connecting the Dots
Being small and self-contained can really make living in an interspecies flock fun. With family members of all shapes and sizes there is always room to mix things up. As one of the smallest and certainly the slowest flock member, your interspecies family can get pretty used to you showing up in the same wayContinueContinue reading “Malti the Redfoot Tortoise: Connecting the Dots”
Pearl the Cockatiel: No More Early Bird
Being covered in feathers automatically makes you very cute. Being very cute makes you very popular. And being very popular can mean it gets harder to carve out enough you-time. Especially in the mornings. And especially when your large featherless alarm clock associates having feathers with getting up early. As if. After all, she hasn’tContinueContinue reading “Pearl the Cockatiel: No More Early Bird”
Bruce the Rescued Box Turtle: Ferns Are Friends
Ferns are friends. They are so gentle. So welcoming. So multi-purpose. If a single and seeking eligible lady box turtle happens along, their vibrant green colors can set off your bright orange cheek patches and whirling red eyes to perfection! On the other hand, if you have a visitor and they start to look hungry,ContinueContinue reading “Bruce the Rescued Box Turtle: Ferns Are Friends”
Malti the Redfoot Tortoise: Micro Gardening
When you are born with a shell and a beak handily equipped with its own set of sharp garden shears, you know that what grows up must come down. Or something like that. In the world of the large shell-less beings, this is often termed “micro gardening.” Let’s say you have a small space whereContinueContinue reading “Malti the Redfoot Tortoise: Micro Gardening”
Love & Feathers & Shells 