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”
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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”
Redfoot Tortoise Gets Shell Scratches
Growing up can be itchy business. While many other beings may not look at your redfoot tortoise shell and see a living organism, you know differently. Your keratin-covered, bony shell, which is attached to your spinal column and skeleton, is literally what holds you up. When it grows, you grow….whether you were particularly wanting toContinueContinue reading “Redfoot Tortoise Gets Shell Scratches”
Redfoot Tortoise Chomps Whole Living Lettuce
Out in the big wild world, it’s always lunchtime somewhere. The only question is, which side of the lunch plate will you be on? In other words, when there are only two options on the menu, “eat or get eaten,” you want to make sure you are the one doing the eating. Like so.
Redfoot Tortoise Makes an Epic Mud Wallow
Everyone loves the tropics. The sun, the warmth, the lush green – it looks as good as it feels and feels as good as it looks. And yet there are parts of living the tropical life that don’t get their fair share of praise. Take mud, for instance. It is so refreshing. So restorative. SoContinueContinue reading “Redfoot Tortoise Makes an Epic Mud Wallow”
Redfoot Tortoise Destroys Zucchini Plant
In our little flock, we have a saying. Plant it and she will come. And then she will eat it. And then it will be no more. So I guess the saying is more like a poem. Or a requiem. Zucchini plant, you will be missed. Especially by a certain redfooted someone.
Redfoot Tortoise Eats Hibiscus Flower the Size of Her Body
Many beings today are not fans of “supersizing.” But the redfoot tortoise will never join their misguided little club. After all, if small and delicious is good, large and delicious is better. Following the logic, then, enormous and delicious is – in a word – fantastic. Obviously.
Redfoot Tortoise Closeup With the Camera
When you have a face that loves the camera, you can absolutely expect the camera will love you back. It might even start following you around. Reason being….”cuteness.” You have it and every other being wants it. Luckily, the more attention you get (see “cuteness”) the more snacks you are likely to get. Even justContinueContinue reading “Redfoot Tortoise Closeup With the Camera”
Love & Feathers & Shells 