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The Ultimate Sloth Gift Guide

Having trouble finding a gift for the sloth lover in your life? With Christmas fast approaching, you’ll need to be quicker than a sloth if you want to get them that present they will treasure for many long, slow years. Here’s a short guide to my top ten picks.

Number 10: Sloth Art by Tara Billinger– These plus many more!
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Number 9: Sloth Socks from Sockittome.com
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Number 8: Sloth Love Mug from Cafe Press
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Number 7: “The Croods” movie
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Number 6: “A Little Book of Sloth” by Lucy Cooke
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Number 5: Sloth Flip T-shirt- “Ask me why I’m lazy”lazytshirt

Number 4: “Slowly, Slowly, Slowly Said the Sloth” by Eric Carle
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Number 3: Sloth rings from Etsy
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Number 2: Three Toed Sloth toy from Amazon
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AND NUMBER ONE: If your recipient simply has everything already, why not make a donation on their behalf to the Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica, to help rehabilitate injured sloths and return them to the wild. climbinggif

Happy shopping, and Merry Christmas!

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Grandmother Sloth

This week my Grandma celebrated her 76th birthday. To honour her, I sat down and read this book: “Grandmother Sloth; How She Got Her Smile”, available to buy on Amazon.com.

Grandmother looked up with a pleasant expression and told JJ and Maria a story about an ancient time when sloths were fast and had no smile.

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Overwhelmed by Sloths

She calls it being “slothified.” … “There was literally no place in my home or garden where you could go and not see sloths – they were everywhere!”

Last October, Monique Pool got a phone call from The Animal Protection Society of Suriname, reporting that several sloths had been found on a 17-acre plot of land that was to be cleared for a cattle ranch.

Pool, whose home doubles as a sloth sanctuary, went to the area with her team to rescue the animals, but they found more sloths than they expected – nearly 200 of them.

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Doza the Sloth’s Big Adventure

“Deep in the middle of the jungle, way, way up in the tallest tree slept an upside-down three-toed sloth called Doza. Doza always moved very, very slowly, and very, very sleepily. Doza moved, ate, and even talked slowly! He only came out at night-time as he was nocturnal, and slept up to 18 hours a day, with his head between his arms and his feet together.

Doza had long, gray fur that was a little bit green when it rained, as because he didn’t move very much some algae had started to grow on it. Doza also had three sharp claws on each of his hands that he used to cling to the tree upside-down and also to protect himself. 

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One night, a jaguar was prowling around the jungle. He walked underneath Doza’s tree, but because Doza’s fur was green because of the algae on it, this camouflaged him so the jaguar couldn’t see him. So the jaguar kept prowling but didn’t hurt Doza.

The next night, Doza decided to go visit his friend Slowla the sloth, in the tree next to his. He had to climb all the way down, down to the ground. It took a very long time. Once on the ground he walked very slowly, as sloths do. Sloths cannot walk on all fours, so Doza used his front arms and claws to pull himself along.

But on the way to Slowla’s tree, the jaguar came back! And this time, the jaguar saw him!

Doza knew he couldn’t climb back up his tree fast enough, so he reached out his long, sharp claws and scratched the jaguar across his nose. The jaguar ran away, and didn’t bother Doza the sloth again.

Doza finally made it to Slowla’s tree, and they had a nice, relaxing nap together.

The End.“

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