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”
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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”
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 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 Takes a Walk
Redfoot tortoises are roamers. Wild redfoots will freely wander searching for snacks. Pet redfoots will also freely wander searching for snacks. You never know when a snack may appear, so if you don’t see one right away, just keep walking. Sooner or later, or for however long it may take, you will eventually wander rightContinueContinue reading “Redfoot Tortoise Takes a Walk”
Love & Feathers & Shells 