Manatees (Trichechus manatus) moving into Blue Spring in Orange City, Florida this afternoon to escape the deadly cold arriving this evening. It will be a brief cold snap but for a manatee it could mean life or death. Manatees rarely venture into waters below 68° F (20° C). Tonight's forecast is for a low around 34° F (1°C) but the waters flowing out of Blue Spring are a balmy 72° F (22° C) year-round making it an ideal refuge for manatees in cool weather.
This is part of my world. . . organizing paper. Above, duPree is always one to help out. She apparently likes the feel and taste of all the paper. This is one of my least favorite tasks in life. . . organizing paper. I keep the files painfully organized so I can instantly put my finger on any one of those miserable pieces of paper.
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Above: Very unlikely friends, Ramone (orange) and Damien Roscoe Roth (the DRR Tabby). They are pretty much inseparable except during evening sitting time. Only one will fit in my lap at a time.
Felix. His worst tumor is just under right side of his face. . .on his neck. He's pretty disheveled. . .but still with us and he has yet to show any signs of dementia.
BELOW: A reader asked how one can tell the difference between rat poop and lizard or anole poop. In Florida, we have lots of both anole lizards and rats. . . but its most unlikely that a rat comes very close to where there are pets. Same thing with lizards.
I had to look very hard to find any lizard poop (or any lizards) around the Debary house where we have all the pets. Cats find lizard hunting to be a most enjoyable pursuit. The Deltona house, with zero pets, revealed much evidence of lizards, but no rats.
The lizards get trapped between the glass and screens. . . and deposit their poop there. ABOVE. Lizard poop almost always has a little white cap on it. The calcium leftover from whatever they ate for dinner.
ABOVE: More lizard poop, this near a table. I threw a penny there for scale.
ABOVE: More poop in the screens.
Its kind of hard to distinguish between the poop and dead moths or flies. . . without one's glasses. A good vacuum removes it all, quickly.
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