Still trying to get everything ready for the arrival of my 2 rescue gliders (no set date yet, waiting for male's eye to heal so he can get neutered).

In the cage, do you cover the wire bottom with fleece or other fabric liners? What do you like to put in the cage as far as toys & sleeping spots?

Bedding: What do you use? I assume the rules are pretty much the same with all caged critters: no dust, no pine, no cedar.

Now, I'm asking because I've been a rat owner for years, but I know that gliders have different requirements. I've bought some flannel & cotton to make lightweight hammocks for my rats since it's warming up here in TX and fleece just seems a bit too toasty now. I want to go ahead and make some stuff for the glider cage too, but I'd like to know what to make. I figure a pouch, and maybe a teepee type tent so they could snooze in there.

What else? Um..oh, anything special for a cage with a blind (and a half blind) glider?

Of course, as I'm typing this, every question I have is hiding from my memory...haha Oh well, I'll write more if I think of more.

Okay, I know nothing of the blind glider housing-but I know a few member have or have had blind suggies, so hopefully this will be a bump for them!

So......welcome! And thanks for researching before you bring your suggies home....and for getting 2 sugar gliders! This is imparative and so many people find out the hard way that you need 2 and not just 1.

For cage liners-a lot of people use different ones. Personally I use newspaper but it is about six inches away and I have made sure they can not get to it because there is a debate over the toxicity of the dyes.

For sleeping spots-get or make two or three pouches and hang them in varying spots, but not super low. You can also use that same fleece to make ropes and hammocks. My guys love the fleece dangly toys that I put from the branches (one strip of fleece cut up into strips about five inches long).

For toys-bird toys, small mammal toys, cat toys (WITHOUT CATNIP). They also like baby/toddler toys, plastic flowers (check to make sure they can't ingest anything toxic or to hard), straws, barrel full of monkeys, and random household items (I have a set of plastic measuring cups that my girls absolutely loooove!). Also look into getting one or two wodent or stealth wheels!

And we are going to need pictures of the cuties when you finally get them!