In Reply to: pocket training posted by Jill on September 30, 1999 at 18:23:15:

: Hey everyone, I've just started taking Glitter Bug out to play and bond. But, in the daytime when I take her out to go in my pocket, there is absolutely no way she's gonna go in there! I'll put my hand in the cage she'll crawl onto it (most of the time) and then I take my hand out of the cage with her on it and she runs up my arm and jumps onto the outside of her cage or just runs around on my back, I don't wanna pick her up because I'm afraid she'll bite me and then hate me forever! (does it hurt when they bite or is it just like a hamster bite?) So, how can I get her to go into my pocket? Thanx for the help.

: Jill :)

I use a bonding pouch, t shirt pockets aren't big enough and i don't trust safety pins. My little guy sleeps in a slipper so i take out the slipper with him in it and tuck it into the pouch. IN fact he's here with me now as i type this,sound asleep. the pouch is absorbing the scent of his sleeping slipper, it's unzipped so he looks up at me every so often and if i feel he'll get away i zip it shut and he looks out the little screen window. as for the bites, they hurt a little but not long. like getting stuck with a thorn.

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