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Subject: Re: Poll:: Did you choose your glider?
Posted by Tiffany on December 23, 1998 at 00:17:45:
In Reply to: Poll:: Did you choose your glider? posted by Bourbon on December 23, 1998 at 00:04:23:
: I want to ask all people out here..a couple of questions.
: 1. Did you choose your glider or did it choose you, or did you buy it sight unseen?
It chose me. She was brought to me and put in my hand, and I had to hold her for about 30 minutes without petting her or anything to see if she liked my scent.
: 2. Did you get a tight bond with your glider?
Yes.
: 3. How long was the bonding process?
I think after about a week she stopped crabbing much, and after about a month she would go in my pocket and sleep and not crab. The bond seems to deepen all the time, though, like when she recently started to sing everytime I go around her.
: 4. What did you go through crabbing, biting, etc..at the beginning?
She crabbed some, but never a lot. She has bitten, but I heard when she was a baby not to pull away so I could keep the upper hand. I think that saved me a lot of pain. She nibbles, but almost never bites (except when I'm giving her her medicine. But I don't blame her - she doesn't understand.)
: 5. was any of the subsequent gliders as tight a bond as the first?
I've never had any others
:)Tiff