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Kathy LaFollett
Kathy LaFollett

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The intelligent, needy, loud, messy, independent, nosy, expensive, opinionated companion parrot.

And did I ever mention, Wilbur, my goldfish? — My first pet was a goldfish I won at our town’s Sweet Corn Festival. Easy for me. Complicated for my parents. Their fault for letting me toss the ping-pong ball. I’d already eaten sweet corn, taffy, and those paper plate sized globs of deep-fried dough with drifts of powdered sugar…

Lifestyle

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The intelligent, needy, loud, messy, independent, nosy, expensive, opinionated companion parrot.
The intelligent, needy, loud, messy, independent, nosy, expensive, opinionated companion parrot.
Lifestyle

5 min read


3 days ago

I am a mealworm farmer. Let me introduce you to my crop.

Once you get your processes, temperatures, and humidity dialed in, you can outgrow your own farm. I know, I raise mealworms. When things grow successful and huge in numbers, the crow eat well outside. My mealworm farm numbers in the hundreds. The most adult mealworms I’ve maintained was five hundred…

Lifestyle

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I am a mealworm farmer. Let me introduce you to my crop.
I am a mealworm farmer. Let me introduce you to my crop.
Lifestyle

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Jan 27

Caring for your budgerigar parakeet.

Before we get into the how’s of parakeets. We need to cover what a parakeet is, and is not, and that parakeets and budgies are the same taxonomy. In the US these parrots are most commonly referred to as parakeets. The rest of the world calls them budgerigars or budgies…

Life

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Caring for your budgerigar parakeet.
Caring for your budgerigar parakeet.
Life

4 min read


Jan 24

The Queries of Wizards and other Beings

Owning a pet lifestyle website requires owning the search engine optimization job that comes with it. I am the Grand Wizard of inquiring wizards from afar. I see all your queries in all their forms; Navigational, transactional, informational. In my wizardy world, I see all. Questions you other wizards are…

SEO

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The Queries of Wizards and other Beings
The Queries of Wizards and other Beings
SEO

3 min read


Jan 22

Keeping chickens is not your answer to high egg prices.

They could be your answer to a companion with benefits, though. — Million Buck Lady. A paint mare. They offered her at auction with her colt, a tobiano not yet named. I brought them home to a small homestead. A double sized stall fit their needs perfectly. Fill a barn with oats, hay, horse, and tack. You’ve got a barn needing chickens…

Lifestyle

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Keeping chickens is not your answer to high egg prices.
Keeping chickens is not your answer to high egg prices.
Lifestyle

6 min read


Jan 18

Cat opinions and one human’s undoing.

I have not successfully lived with a cat for 16 years now. When I was living with a cat, I was not living successfully with the cat. Nor the cats before that cat. I take responsibility for my malignant malfeasance. A marching band worth of cats tried to expose my…

Cats

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Cat opinions and one human’s undoing.
Cat opinions and one human’s undoing.
Cats

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Jan 18

Knee high egress and a dog’s perspective.

You live in a house long enough and you’ll know every detail you want to change. Because buying a house that fits lasts as long as you don’t change how you live. A big two story felt big and capable. Then we added two dogs, eight parrots, a rabbit, two…

Lifestyle

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Knee high egress and a dog’s perspective.
Knee high egress and a dog’s perspective.
Lifestyle

4 min read


Jan 17

A cursory glance will get you a cursory life.

Randy isn’t one not to wait. He will out wait every other flighted being on the field. Other ducks, wood storks, spoonbills, hawks, starlings, Quaker parrots, Senegal parrots, gulls, blue jays, wren, and finches. He will be the last duck standing, staring at the windows and back doors of our…

Life

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A cursory glance will get you a cursory life.
A cursory glance will get you a cursory life.
Life

3 min read


Jan 12

Three ducks and a fortune cookie.

Chinese takeout. It goes back to US history during the California Gold Rush. Chinese restaurants appeared seemingly from nowhere. The 30,000 Chinese immigrants digging for gold wouldn’t agree with the “nowhere” part. Their stands, carts, and huts became known as Chow Chow Houses, which was a racist thing to say…

Food

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Three ducks and a fortune cookie.
Three ducks and a fortune cookie.
Food

3 min read


Jan 10

Storytelling Traditions. The missing mortar.

“Oh, my god. Was grandpa mad?” “No. What would be the point of it? We had two dozen rabbits to catch!” Dad laughed at the idea of wasting time on anger rather than solutions. Because his father did, too. I laughed with my father. Our Sunday tradition of a beer…

Love

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Storytelling Traditions. The missing mortar.
Storytelling Traditions. The missing mortar.
Love

5 min read

Kathy LaFollett

Kathy LaFollett

434 Followers

I am a Companion Animal Advocate, Owner of FlockCall.com, Author, Speaker, and Humorist. https://www.flockcall.com | amazon.com/author/kathy.lafollett

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