So, in my continuing effort to make sure Serenity and Precious bond to one another as well as me, I had them both outside their cages yesterday mingling a little bit. They groomed each other, shared a nectarine, nothing too special... then, as both of them are wont to do, Precious crawled into the underbelly tray area of the Pocket Pets cage and started crawling around on the bars upside down, rubbing her body in Serenity's mess from the night before. :P Very silly habit, I think they use discarded mealworms and pellets as a backscratcher or something.

Anyway, Serenity hopped back in her cage to sniff at Precious some more, creating this neat "pond" effect with her mirroring Precious from above. Myself and two of the neighborhood kids watched this with interest for a few moments when one of them pointed at Precious and said, "What's that?"

Close examination revealed a small red dot on Precious' underside, just in front of the tail, where something seemed to be wiggling in and out a bit. Yup, you guessed it - turns out "she's" not a she. :P About two minutes of sheer disbelief and debate on the idea that HIS previous owner couldn't possibly have had him for two years without knowing his gender was put to rest when Precious hopped up into Serenity's cage and... well, and started to do what boy gliders do when there's a pretty girl around. :P Suddenly all my complaints about Precious' scent made more sense. ;)

On the one hand, I'm thrilled. I was hoping to be in this position someday - an unneutered male to go with my female so the colony can grow. I didn't really want to get here so quickly, though. :) I still barely know what I'm doing! I'm going to repeat this journal entry as a post so I can get some guidance for my short term questions. :) As for the long term - well, everything happens for a reason, right?

 

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