While it isn’t necessarily “normal” for shelled beings and shell-less beings to cohabitate, it can be a smart choice under certain circumstances. For example, let’s say you are born particularly cute. This means right from day one, your plate is full with evading paparazzi, posing for fan pics, foraging your meals and (of course) plentyContinueContinue reading “Day 224: Tortoise Trains An Assistant”
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Day 221: Tiny Tortoise Grows Up
While there are lots of good things about arriving into this world in one of those popular small white round escape pods, there is one notable drawback. It’s not very big. Ergo, when you pop the hatch and take your first historic steps outside as a baby tortoise, you aren’t very big. This can makeContinueContinue reading “Day 221: Tiny Tortoise Grows Up”
Day 218: Tortoise Makes Friends With Cockatiel
“Cuteness” is a great way to make new friends. But when you are born very cute and have so many beings who want to be friends with you, it can take some time to get around to everyone on the waiting list. You do your best, of course, because that is just the kind ofContinueContinue reading “Day 218: Tortoise Makes Friends With Cockatiel”
Day 215: The Emotional Support Tortoise
When your little flock consists of one (perpetually nervous) feathered being, one (equally anxious) large shell-less being and two shelled beings, it doesn’t take advanced math to figure out who is there to support whom. Clearly, there is one shell for each of ’em! It also won’t take much time at all to discern thatContinueContinue reading “Day 215: The Emotional Support Tortoise”
Day 212: Tortoise Greets World
Every being comes into this world differently. If you have a shell on your back, you will arrive inside of a very small escape pod called an “egg.” Of course, there are pros and cons to this arrival method. On the pro side, once the hatchling tortoise escape pod launches, conveying you to your destination,ContinueContinue reading “Day 212: Tortoise Greets World”
Malti’s Munchies
Malti LOVES to eat. She wasn’t picky when I first brought her home, but as she grows she is discovering more about what she likes best and least. This has made providing a nutritionally balanced diet a touch more challenging for her mommy. Ideally, at least half her diet should consist of fruits and veggies.ContinueContinue reading “Malti’s Munchies”
Malti in the Wild
Malti is a red-foot tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria). [Just to clarify in case you’re new to all this, tortoise = land turtle.] When I first brought her home, I was vaguely aware that her kind had not always been kept as pets. During our 15-minute hand-off meeting (I brought the cash, he brought the reptile), her breederContinueContinue reading “Malti in the Wild”
Love & Feathers & Shells 