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To everyone in the toilet paper inward- or outward-facing discourse: While I don't think the difference in difficulty is enough to fight over this, outward-facing IS generally easier for quickly unrolling, BUT it also allows your pet starling to unroll the entire roll onto your bathroom floor because he can get better leverage and he likes to spin things. So what I'm saying is there are Nuances

#River rambles #Toilet paper discourse #Starlings #River's pets

Thin dramatic-lighting line here between two doofus doves being doofuses and a Lady Mob Boss and her loyal if dimwitted henchman

#Puddleglum #Truancy #River's pets #Doves

Came home to find Truancy sporting a new fashion statement 😂 (She itched it off with her foot shortly after I got photographic evidence)

#Doves #River's pets #Truancy #I could not have been more delighted by this homecoming surprise after being out all night with my grandma XD

Hello science side of tumblr, I have discovered an unprecedented new source of relax and carefree in a mammal creature. Is there a safe science way we can replicate this to be inserted into humans. I can transfer some through hugging but that's kind of a one-at-a-time method and I wish to sell the magic formula and become rich and relaxed thank you.

#Science side of tumblr #River's pets #Impossible levels of bliss in this creature #Just absolutely illegal levels of chill #You would never suspect that the other half of the time she has very little chill whatsoever #Goofus dog #Daisy the dog #Doggos #Puppers #Dogs

No one does clingy like a me-deprived Daisy. She took it to the next level with the full-body hug

#River's pets #Daisy the dog

My baby starling (Cricket) trying to sing along with my playthrough of Kingdom Hearts: Memory of Melody. He's very out of tune but he's got the spirit!

#Cricket #Starlings #Birbs #Kingdom hearts #Kh #Kh melody of memory #Baby bird #He is silly #May be a girl but I wont know till he becomes an adult #But a silly goofus regardless #Cute pets #River's pets

Ok, I gotta ask . . . how exactly did you end up with a pet starling?

I'd be happy to tell you! :D So a few months ago, in the Spring, I was helping get my family's alpaca farm ready for our spring Farm Day, where the public can come and see the alpacas and ride hayrides and stuff. I was walking back to this outdoor storage building we have called a Quonset hut, and there in the VERY MIDDLE of the giant open doorway was a baby bird that had clearly fallen from one of the nests high up at the top of the door. It was too young and unfeathered to be out of the nest, and there was absolutely no reasonable way to get it back up there even if I knew which nest it belonged to.

Naturally, my reaction was a resigned sigh. This is not my first summer in recent years helping fallen baby birds and the charm has somewhat worn off. XD; But I can't just leave it there, so I pick it up and make a little replacement nest for it up on a shelf, hoping the mom would come feed it.

But the whole time I'm down there (over an hour), it just cries and cries, clearly hungry and upset about it. Finally, I break down and go looking for worms. Thankfully 1) it had rained recently, and so worms were near the surface under some old cinderblocks, and 2) the baby was old enough to eat whole worms. It horked down like SIX of them, which I honestly still can't believe fit in its little belly. It must have been VERY hungry.

Anyway, I debated leaving it there, but I am weak, and I ended up taking it home. I've raised a baby starling before and the last one was a bit obnoxious, and I think I ended up releasing him too early, so he may not have survived. But I got attached to this one, and I've always liked the idea of having a wild animal pet I raised from a baby, and you can't take starlings to wildlife centers because they're invasive so centers won't take them in, but that ALSO means it is legal to keep them as pets! And I've read starlings can make good pets and mimic sounds and fun stuff.

So yeah, that's how I ended up with a baby starling! :D He's MUCH cuter fuller feathered (and eating by himself, the lad took FOREVER), and he's starting to show his adult plumage and try to sing (altho he is VERT bad at it and hasn't figured out how to mimic anything in particular). He is hysterical as he likes to hop all over the place and stick his beak in holes and open his beak like he's levering something (he does this in my ear sometimes which feels very weird). And I am highly blessed in that he and the doves, while not the best of friends, are managing to coexist in the bathroom, and the cats know not to chase the birds, and the dog DOES like to chase the birds (for fun, not to eat), but Cricket is very fast and sometimes Daisy will lie on the couch with me while Cricket perches on me and it is so sweet. <3

Oh, and his (or her, I won't know until the beak changes color) name is Cricket because of the constant chirruping noise he made as a box-nest baby whenever he wanted food. It was a little obnoxious sometimes, but it was also cute and sounded just like a cricket. Or sometimes a pteradactyl.

Here's some more photos of him from a couple weeks after I found him to now! Enjoy!