P365.2-5, Day 261 - About Time

[grundyscribbling]

The camera tends to make it look nicer than it is, but it really did look like this today.








Yes, that is a turtle eating cat food out of a cat bowl. He shows up at feeding time like he's one of them. Hilariously, the cats won't hassle him about it - they just concede the dish!



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[lferion]

Gorgeous! And the turtle made me smile.

[grundyscribbling]

Thank you! The turtle is hilarious, not least because the cats will not mess with him. (To be fair, he does have only one eye and project an air of fuck around and find out...)

[ysilme]

Oooh, those mirror images are lovely! ♥
I don't know about the turtles in your corner of the world, but the kind I'm familiar with - as in, Hermann's tortoises which usually only exist as pets - can be pretty agressive, particularly about their food. My parents have a male who lives outside in his pen from spring to autumn, and when it's my turn to feed him during my parents' absence I need to be quick to not to get scratched after having served him his daily piece of red fruit (which he adores). He's also getting a few bits of soaked cat kibble every day as meaty part of his food as this is what specialists recommend for them. Yours seems to know that as well. *g*

[grundyscribbling]

This sort of turtle (Eastern box turtle) is pretty harmless. I'd be far less sanguine about this if it was a snapper! Snappers aside, most turtles hereabouts aren't aggressive, and in fact you'll regularly see people stop cars to help turtles across roads.

[bunn]

Turtle is cat now :-D

[grundyscribbling]

More like cats are intimidated by turtle, so he can help himself!

[sulien]

Gorgeous shots, I'm glad you're able to go back out kayaking again. I'm with everyone else, the turtle snurching the cat food made me smile. Good kitties, sharing their food. :)

[grundyscribbling]

Yes, I'm very happy to be out on the water again.

It's less 'good kitties sharing food' than 'the cats do not like the look of that one-eyed weirdo they can't bite'.