All Fluff No Substance

[summer_jackel]

This post is brought to you by all fluff, all the time.

How many plushies and how many actual animals do you see in this picture?


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Tiger!


Nocturne has Femme Fatale eyes


The new tree I made for the birds yesterday! It contained a lot of nice semi-rotten driftwood and all sorts of interesting textures, and so far everyone loves chewing on it. (All the wood is baked to sterilize it).


Kaya is chewing with a lot of intention here. She'll sit and work on a perch really seriously for several minutes at a time, on and off all day. Gavin's attention span is far shorter. Appropos of nothing, I wish someone would tell him to stop using his tail as a shred toy.

Comments

[kynekh-amagire.livejournal.com]

Nocturne could be a Bond villainess with those eyes, and I see what you mean about Kaya's blue rump. She really looks like a hybrid now that her adult feathers are showing, although apparently her quarter-Sennie is the hind quarter specifically. That's a Senegal butt there, for sure.

(Eee, plush Balto.)

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Nocturne says, "Surely you don't want to leave...now...Mr. Bond?"

Hah---Kaya's Sennie side definitely manifests in her butt. The color is not quite yellow enough to be sennie and definitely isn't the Meyer's greenish blue. (Or bluish green, depending on subspecies). She also shows none of the Meyer's yellow flash at the elbow.

(I have plush Jenna, too. <3)

Salt in driftwood?

[cphoenix.livejournal.com]

Do you soak the salt out of the driftwood, as well as baking it?

I hadn't realized just how sensitive birds are to excess salt till I read an account of a bird that got slowly salt-poisoned from drinking its owner's tears...

Re: Salt in driftwood?

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

wow, I've not heard that story!
I wash them thoroughly before I bake them, but there is probably some trace salts remaining. I don't know how much of the wood they actually ingest; mostly they make it into sawdust, but it's definitely something to keep in mind. They get yearly bloodwork done, and salt issues have never come up.

[troubleagain.livejournal.com]

Without looking at comments or additional pictures, I'm going to say three cats, one dog.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

you got 'em.