posted by sharlet on Aug 29
Every morning when I wake I am greeted by my two dogs Cloudy and Gracie. Now besides being rudely awaken by an over abundance of very sloppy kisses, I have these two sorrowful faces begging me to go outside. Now being the alpha person in this Zoo I feel an obligation to see that this happens, so being the smart person that I am I go to the door and yell “The Dogs Need To Go Out” to my son who is sleeping soundly in his nice warm bed. ( First problem of the day solved) Now I know you are thinking what has this got to do with the tortoise, nothing really I sometimes get side tracked. As you may recall I share a room with Boris/Sweet Apple, so it has become one of my alpha duties to take care of the tortoise. So every day I change his lagoon water, today is no different and after I drag him out from under his moss (his favorite hiding place) I place him in his nice warm water. Now if you recall I told you about how these guys use the water for drinking, bathing and crapping. You see I am not an expert on poop but who knew that tortoise poop looked like white putty. Being the intelligent alpha person that I am, I do what any intelligent person would do, I go to the door and yell “Hey Bill Sweet Apple pooped in her water and somebody has got to clean it.” (Second problem of the day solved) Can’t wait to see what the third problem is.!!!!
posted by sharlet on Aug 28
Echo is my choice of topics to talk about today, and as you can see from the photo of Echo you can tell she is green. but she is also yellow, red and blue with a little bit of orange tossed in there for good measure. As you can see she is mostly yellow and green, Echo is a Double Yellow Headed Amazon, she is ten years old and I have had her since she was 6 months old. Now to say Echo is an amazing bird falls far short of the mark, she is spectacular. Now I know you are all thinking I might be a little on prejudicial side, but trust me on this one. OK? When I got her she knew how to do the wolf whistle and say “Hello”, now talks non stop and I mean non stop! She can make the phone ring, answer it by saying “Hello” and then call for my husband “Hey Bill, Hey Bill” and he has been dead almost seven years. She sings non stop, Old McDonald Had A Farm, is one of her favorites mine on the other hand is Echo Echo Echo Echoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, and she knows it, so when I am tic off at her she well belt it out at the top of her lungs. That is what she is doing in the picture below, sometime it works and sometimes not, this time it did. She can sing several song, laugh, cry, play hide and seek but her favorite is tickle tickle, she sticks out her claw and lets you tickle her. She knows about 150 words give or take a few. Now I don’t want you to think she is a little angel all the time because she can be a little stinker when she wants but I love her. She can be very very loud at times, that is why both my homes are on lots of land, now my son on the other hand lives in an apartment and only time will tell on that subject!
Echo Echo Echo Echooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
posted by sharlet on Aug 24
BORIS IS A GIRL!!! We took Boris to the Veterinarian today to make sure everything was alright and he is a she!!! So of course since Boris is a girl my granddaughter is adamant that no longer can the name Boris be used, so world meet Sweet Apple forever to be known as Apple. Now you know that of course the Vet would have a list of things that we just had to get for Apple (formally known as Boris). So off we go to PetCo again, they know my son by name we have been there so much this last week. Another light, (not enough UV rays), a heating pad for under the tank( needs more heat), some timothy hay, the list goes on, if this keeps up we may have to give Apple a hat and cane and teach her to do a soft shoe shuffle to pay for her up keep!! More about Apple (formally known as Boris) later, stay tuned!
posted by sharlet on Aug 23
For those interested, Boris is alive and well and as predicted at 1:30 last night my son and I did the “Hello Boris are you in there” to his shell! Then my son being a modern computer guru goggled tortoises and he ended up on Russian Tortoises.org and guess what Boris has a new and bigger tank (because they said he needed a bigger one) another heat light because ,well we needed one. We got the bigger tank because Boris needed a bigger water bowl because he needs to drink (which they seldom do), bath and use it as a outhouse all at the same time ( go figure) and his old tank was to small for a water bowl of that size. So Boris has a new larger home my son has lighter wallet but Boris is happy and in a kids world that is all that matters. Right.
posted by sharlet on Aug 19
Well I made it, it was a very long night with very little sleep. See I could blame it on the Zoo but in fact I have some very strange sleeping habits and last night was a dilly. During one of my many wakeful period I decided to check on Boris. Holy crap I had the bejeezit scared out of me. Now I don’t know a lot about tortoises and their sleeping habits might be as strange as mine but he sure looked dead to me. Now one would assume (and you know what those letters stand for) that when a tortoise sleeps he would pull his head in his shell when he was asleep. Nope, his head was all the way out and laying on the bottom of his tank. You see when my son bought Boris for Sarah he said give it a week and it will probably be dead, will at 4:30 he looked dead to me, so I say boy you didn’t even last a day and turn off the light. WOW!! Poor Sarah I think, I felt so bad for her so I think maybe I should take him out of the tank so she won’t see him first thing she wakes up. So I turn the light back on, he picks up his head looks at me as if to say are you nuts or something and then lay it back down. Anyways the whole point of this story is, what they say about judging a book by it’s cover is true. Boris is alive and well and I am still sleepless.
posted by sharlet on Aug 19
Nameless is no longer nameless , so meet Boris The Tortoise. Watch out, you never know, tomorrow Boris might be somebody else. Kinda sad really, I sort of liked Nameless. Stay tuned I will keep you posted, can’t wait to see what kind of a roommate he is going to be. Chances are that I won’t even notice (whats one more creature), what with Sarah, my two dogs and Peanut my sons new puppy all in there, it could be a long night. Tune in tomorrow!
posted by sharlet on Aug 18
You should know that I have a Zoo, but you should also know that my Zoo includes any animal that invades my world, such as snakes, lizards, wild birds, Bobcats, you get the picture. So meet Nameless, a Russian Tortoise, my Granddaughter Sarah’s new pet and my new roommate. Lets hope he is not a night owl, right now he is stuck in the corner of his tank, trying to remove the glass with his head. Lets hope he figures this out soon or he will be a flat nose Russian Tortoise. He is nameless because Sarah can not figure out a name for him, maybe she will name him after me, which would be a first. Oh, no my friend JoAnn named her bird after me, but then I did buy Charlie for her birthday.
So meet Nameless
