Congrats! I get my new girl Saturday-sadly to replace one that passed
This is my first young glider though so I am hoping she bonds to me a little easier/better.
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Whats your set up? We are thinking of building a big cage for play,but I am kinda going back and forth on that.
I'm sorry to hear you lost a suggie. We had to put one to sleep back in March. Very sad.
Our setup is like this... we just bought a new cage that the current trio is staying in. It's this one exactly:
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=5059+10346+9288&pcatid=9288
We LOVE it! It is the first large cage with less than 1/2"bar spacing that we've found that HASN'T made us want to tear our hair out. It is HUGE!! The only real problem is that it's so big it doesn't fit through doorways, but other than that, it's AWESOME. It isn't flimsy like the other cages we've had at all.
For playtime we have something similar to this:
It's big enough for both my husband and I to sit in, and the suggies can climb all around us. It's great for bonding, too, because we can just sit in there and watch TV until the new suggie decides to come visit with us on their own terms. It has worked very well. I actually have to repair ours... since a certain cat decided it wanted in the tent one day and ripped a hole in the side!
Anyways, our other cage (where the new girl is living until she's ready to move in with the rest of the colony) is kind of like this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Large-Flight-Bi...5|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318|301:0|293:2|294:50
It's a cheap cage, doesn't really fit together right, and the bars are pretty thin/breakable... but with a few modifications (mainly spring latches on all the doors and zip-tying all the gaps close) it works okay. Plenty of room for a sugar glider or two. We actually have two cages like this... Penn and Teller's first cage, and then a second that we bought for Elphaba and Fiyero. The new cage is definitely a BIG step up!
Of course, they have TONS of toys, but I'll save that for later. I've already taken up an insane amount of space here.
OO OO OOo!!!! This is exciting!!!!
Could you possibly PM me who your breeder is? My fiance and I want a pair in a few years, but we want to buy from a good breeder.
SQUEEEEE I want photos!
PM sent!
How cute... we need pics!
Pictures are coming, I promise! Not tonight, though. I want to give her a day or two to settle in before I stick a camera in her face. I know I would probably be grumpy about having my picture taken after being on an airplane all day! LOL!