When you live in an interspecies flock, it is important to find activities all flock members enjoy so you have fun things to do together. For instance, maybe everyone in your flock likes to hang out on the lawn. So you take a few deep breaths together, oxygenate, soak in some vitamin D, chew clover,ContinueContinue reading “Day 113: Redfoot Tortoise Takes a Walk”
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Day 110: The Climbing Tortoise
In the world of shell-less beings, climbing up something by yourself without anyone or anything helping you is called “free climbing.” In other words, you don’t have any ropes or pulleys or ladders or legs-up from your mommy. You just see the thing you want to climb and you head over and go climb it.ContinueContinue reading “Day 110: The Climbing Tortoise”
Day 107: The Tortoise and the Towel
When you are small, round and brown with a shell, nothing says “nap time” like the sight of a soft, cozy brown towel. Not only are you sure to be warm and comfy during your siesta, but your choice of camouflage is seamless (and, it nearly goes without saying, fashion-forward). For an even more relaxingContinueContinue reading “Day 107: The Tortoise and the Towel”
Day 104: Tortoise Creature Comforts
Some beings mildly appreciate so-called “creature comforts” when the opportunity presents itself. Other beings dive in to comfy-ness (a technical term) like an Olympic swimmer dives into a pool. This, of course, is because you were born for comfort. Made for it, in fact. You are so all about getting comfortable and staying that wayContinueContinue reading “Day 104: Tortoise Creature Comforts”
Day 101: Redfoot Tortoise Is a Basking Beauty
You can take the girl out of the forest, as they say, but you can’t take the forest out of the girl. Or something like that. Here, your mama can mutter about “the importance of full ultraviolet spectrum light” all she wants. But as a tropical tortoise who is adapted for life under deep leafyContinueContinue reading “Day 101: Redfoot Tortoise Is a Basking Beauty”
Day 98: Tortoise Hydration
The large shell-less being here…. Tropical species such as, say, the South American redfoot tortoise, really need plenty of humidity and hydration daily to stay happy and healthy. If conditions get too dry, lots of bad things can happen…and did happen, as I’ve shared in detail on her blog. All that to say, here atContinueContinue reading “Day 98: Tortoise Hydration”
Day 95: Tortoise Is A Leg Giveaway
“Cuteness” is widely considered to be an extremely desirable trait. But there are times it can turn into a liability. For instance, when you are very cute and you want to get away from it all and enjoy a restful nap, you may find that no sooner have you settled your adorable shelled self down,ContinueContinue reading “Day 95: Tortoise Is A Leg Giveaway”
Day 92: Tortoise Visits Shelled Support Circle
Living amongst the large shell-less beings has its perks. There are the gourmet hand-fed meals, the shell scratches, the cozy heated seats. But life in an interspecies flock also has its drawbacks….like the continually lurking paparazzi, the needy single box turtle living one habitat over from yours, your small shrieking feathered brother. Sometimes you justContinueContinue reading “Day 92: Tortoise Visits Shelled Support Circle”
Day 89: You and Me and Sea Turtle Makes Three
From the outside looking in, some might assume that tortoises prefer to be solitary. After all, there is all that napping. And the very intent head-down grazing. And then more napping. And then there is the burrowing and the digging and (for some) the hibernating….all quite natural activities for the alleged shelled introvert. But perhapsContinueContinue reading “Day 89: You and Me and Sea Turtle Makes Three”
Day 86: Turtle Lookout
The sight of a tortoise placidly plodding along evokes different thoughts in different folks. In your large shell-less mama, for example, all you have to do is, well, you don’t even have to do anything and she instantly comes running with snacks and shell scratches. That is called “the power of cuteness.” But in otherContinueContinue reading “Day 86: Turtle Lookout”
Love & Feathers & Shells 