There are days when everything just flows. You keep to your set schedule. Those check-marks next to all those to-do list items keep piling up. You feel on top of it all. And then there are the other days. You know the ones. You want them to end but they can’t seem to get enoughContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: A Raspberry A Day”
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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.
Day 359: The Tortoise and the Sea Turtle
There are some great perks to living an indoor/outdoor lifestyle as a redfoot tortoise. Your daily life is definitely more posh and personalized than most others of your kind. But cohabitating with the large shell-less beings (not to mention the small shrieking feathered species) can take some getting used to. Sometimes, you just need toContinueContinue reading “Day 359: The Tortoise and the Sea Turtle”
Day 350: A Very Green Redfoot
One of the (many) odd habits of the large shell-less beings is their tendency to stop everything just to have a snack. They might be walking along and all of a sudden their tummy grumbles. So they drop what they are doing – just like that – often heading off in a completely different directionContinueContinue reading “Day 350: A Very Green Redfoot”
Day 347: Cold Blooded Clover Chomper
Being low to the ground and leisurely about dining gives you plenty of time to observe. For example, there are lots of beings who enjoy lunching on greens. Although some are quite odd. For example, many of these beings have hooves, horns or even curly fur that make them look just like fluffy clouds onContinueContinue reading “Day 347: Cold Blooded Clover Chomper”
Day 314: Functional, Fashionable Redfoot Tortoise Skin
Not every being is born for life under cover in the deep tropical forest. As anyone knows who has ever gone tromping through the underbrush, you never know what might be hiding inside….or how upset it might get about being disturbed. So you want to outfit yourself with the right gear for your forest adventures….likeContinueContinue reading “Day 314: Functional, Fashionable Redfoot Tortoise Skin”
Day 293: A Tortoise and Her Blanket
Being a tropical tortoise from South America, you know exactly how you like your climate. WARM. Warm is good. Warmer is better. Very very warm is best of all. Since you don’t prefer to spend the cold weather days buried under a big pile of dusty hay like your smaller, clearly less discerning shelled brother,ContinueContinue reading “Day 293: A Tortoise and Her Blanket”
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 