You don’t have to be out of your small round white escape pod for very long before it becomes clear that the planet can be a dangerous place. Predators both enormous and infinitesimal are roaming about night and day, and no matter where you go and who you meet, everyone looks hungry. You would justContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Me and My MommyGuard”
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Resting in Place with Malti: Moving the Brick
In the world of the large shell-less beings, when someone is facing a big obstacle, there is such a thing as “raising the bar.” Taking it to the next level. Bringing your “A” game. Being in it to win it. Upping the ante (whatever an “ante” is). Of course, this is easier when your opponentContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Moving the Brick”
Resting in Place with Malti: Bask Your Troubles Away
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”
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”
Resting in Place with Malti: Redecorating with Watercress
After an extended period of time resting in place, you might understandably begin to get tired of the same ol’, same ol’. Same scenery. Same household furnishings. Same art. Same flock mates (SIGH). This is always the right time to bust out your “inner redecorator.” You might not think you have an inner redecorator. WhileContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Redecorating with Watercress”
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”
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”
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”
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!”
Redfoot Tortoise Diet: Calcium, Phosphorus, Oxalates and More
The large shell-less assistant here…. When Malti first joined our little flock as a five-week-old hatchling redfoot tortoise, my approach to her feeding and care was basically the wrong approach. I had the initial thought – “Well, how hard could it be? I kept water turtles as a child and they were all really healthy!”ContinueContinue reading “Redfoot Tortoise Diet: Calcium, Phosphorus, Oxalates and More”
Love & Feathers & Shells 