I was worried for a while because my gliders just werent eating much of their food. one night they didnt eat ANYTHING! But i came up with a new routine. I feed them the fruits an veggies at night. ( they end up eating either all of it or most of it) then in the morning when i wake up..They are still up.. ( i think waiting for me for feed them) then i feed them the hpw diet with my fingers... then i pour some in the middle of my hand so they can climb on me an lick it eaier. Im hoping this way they wont be afraid of me. They still only seem to want to bite me when they are in heir pocuh.. or in a corner in the bathroom. But never when their out in their cage. or on me. i give them 6 hours of play every night (out of their cage) which is alot! but.. sometimes they fall asleep.. even though its night time) I think its because the girls are scared. I think the male is just cold. My bedroom is COLD~! i dont know why. Its just that room.
I just wish the girls werent so scared of me still and that Sly would bond with me more. He trusts me. He just never.. hangs around me. I let him out a hell go run away an hide somewhere. or sleep. I use to try to bond with him in his pouch ( carry him around all days ) but it seemed to keep him up all day an annoy him to the point where everytime i walk by him, hes yell at me. ( but never bite) so i dont know? im confussed. When he sees me feeding him an he WANTS the food.. hell screaM AT ME.. then eat the food. then scream ( even tho he knows im getting him more food) then hell eat it. DOES THE SCREAM ALSO MEAN>>> GIVE ME MORE FOOD> like a baby when their hungry? hope so. cuz he seems happy when hes eating. but making an annoyed noise. weird. haha.Im also hoping that just ebcause the girls always are together and sleep together that it wont be hard for them to bond with a human. I know their not like birds ( once they get a friend they ignore the human) but it just seems that way..?? (prays things will get better) the girls DO seem more active at night. everytime i go in the bathroom they are climbing on the roped an on the counter. so thats good. AGAIN like last time... a little approovments but also some distance.

Update on Sly. He trusts us..but hes seems to be a little..distant from us. He always lets us pick him up, without a fight. he never bites us. He always makes the crabbing noise when i go near his cage when hes sleeping ( hope thats normal) all he seems to do is SLEEP. sleep sleep sleeeeeeeeep. Sheesh! When i wake them up for there exercise time...he runs somewhere an falls asleep. I try to spend time with him in the room but he runs somewhere an sleeeps. I keep finding him an waking him up until he eventually WAKES UP! IT works. hell eventually wake up. After the 10th time of waking him up. Then ill spend some time with him an hell run around an jump on me. but he doesnt like to be held when hes runnin around in the room. )hope thats normal too) i give him aT LEASt 3 hours of roaming time but he wastes it an sleeps most of the time. (I cant wait until we get our new house they are gonna have their own room so they can wake up an run around as they please) i feel bad leaving them in the cage all night cuz they wouldnt run around when i woke them up. When i put them back in their cage...sly goes right in his pouch ( i THINK hes sleeping..again) or hes just waiting for us to go to bed. cuz thats when they like to come out. when were not around an its pitch black ) hope thats normals as well lol.
Update on Snickerz and Kit-Kat. They still hate when we go near the cage while their in their pouches, the scream at us. But when they are out of their pouch they seem fine. When we take them out there scared at first but they are roaming around alot more. When we shut the lights off they run near us and climb on us. They dont like to be held AT ALL yet. I hope they trust us a little more. Sometimes if i move veeerry slowley theyll let me pet them. They seem to like being pet on the front side of their neck. their eyes close lol. I think this is a little improovment.in the morning..Kit-Kat comes out of the pouch..an ill give her a treat. She eats it like shes starving..
They eat SOME of their food when i give it to them at night. But latley looks like they havn eaten at all. They only eat the hpw diet. No veggies no fruit. Same with Sly. thats all they have eated was hpw. so maybe i should just give them veggies again for a night. They ate it all when i did that. but thats not going to change the fact when i give them all of it again. cuz theyll still only eat the hpw an some fruits. So im stuck on that. I take them out while in their pouches an carry them with me and all that. But sometimes it seems like it annoys them bc they hear every noise. They move with me. I hope were still bonding. an not... becoming distant. I see progress an at the same time..distance.

I know im going to write in the journal almost every other day. I like it. I think the girls are bonding with me a little more. I carried them BOTH in the pouch today. they kept lookin at me an hardly ever crabbed.They let me pet there heads even though they tried hiding under eacher while doing so. Sometimes they crabbed when my finger went near their face but it was a calmer crab. Like..im tired leave me alone. I shhhed her an she fell back asleep. i took them out just now in the bathroom. Snickerz is more comfortable with me than Kit-Kat. Snickerz was playing in the tub. Jumping on an off me. let me put my hand near her let me pet her while she was walkin in the tub an while she was on me. Kit-Kat was in a corner all scared. She crabbed everytime i put my hand near her. but sometimes shes come near it an lick me. then walk away back into her corner. Kit-Kat was trying to jump in the tub with Snickerz so i put my hand up half way on the moutside of the tub to help her. she eventually pulled her self on my hand then jumped on the rim of the tub. Hope she knew i was trying to help her lol.
Everytime i let sly out in my room to run around he goes somewhere an falls alseep. I have to keep waking him up for him to FINALLY get up to get some exercise. I dont know if this is normal.I hope it is. I never catch him in a deep sleep. He hears everything hell peek out if he hears u near his cage. So maybe he has a hard time sleeping bc thats when we are up. hmm i wonder. The girls stayed up late today. around 8 or 9 i came out of my room an they were still eating there food from last night.. eeh hope thats not bad.. when they went in their pouch i took all their food bowls out an there were sugar ants all in their food. yuck man!This pissed me off. Im sick of these apartments...i know ppl get sugar ants but this whole apartment complex is infested with sugar ants. if i k eep moving their cages i find that theres not many sugar ants. but if i leave them in the same spot there they are. My babies still shake. i wonder if that means they are cold or scared? i can guess its cuz my girls are scared but soemtimes sly shakes when i hold him an hes not scared of me anymore. hmm. maybe i should put a little blanket in their pouches? I mixed the veggies an fruit together last night an most of it was gone. found some veggie pieces at the bottom but...looks like they ate most of it. i hope. I just hope the there happy..
Last night Sly i think...marked me..lol...he grinded up on the bottom of the leg part of my pj's. An left an odor. i though he was humping my leg! lol. i lifted up the part he sprayed an then e made that cute tisk tisk tisk noise like if u were calling a kitty cat. He keeps marking the floor too cuz hes making the same grinding motion. i thought that ment he was trying to mate! Because when he saw the snickerz while she was in her cage a while ago he was grinding on her cage. maybe he was spraying the cage? like THATS MINE! lol.

Yay i clipped SLys's nails today. I had to wait until he was asleep. Everytime i clipped one he would pop his head up an look at me like ( what was that noise) lol.. then hed go back to sleep. then after awhile he had his eyes half way open and watched me an made those little noises when they eat something good lol. He doesnt cling onto things anymore.

I bonded a little with the girls today. I bonded with one at a time today. First with Snickerz. She was surprisingly calm. i put yogurt on my finger an she walked right up to it right outa her pouch an licked it. She crabbed a little bit but shes waaaay more calm than Kit-Kat.
I was actually scared to do that with Kit-Kat today bc she stuck every second she could but i did it anyway. Still didnt get bit =). But im waiting for it lol. After 2 hours with snickerz i bonded with kit-Kit. She imediatly crabbed an struck at me. Its hard to calm her down when your holdign her in her pouch. I let her lick the spoon with yogurt first. THEN my finger. Because i knew she would have bit me. I know i should be scared but thats just how i am. If i get bit i get bit. But if i know im gonna get bit i try to do things another way an sloweley get closer to them. My husband always holds them an they always bite. Hes not any closer tthem that i am. In fact id say i was closer lol. But who knows.

I had fun blending their fruit together. I wanted some myself when it was done MmmMmmMm. i put a little peice of bannan in it ( i read too much bannan can cause tummy aches) apples,mangos,kiwi,grapes,a little frozen juice with 100%pure exotic fruit juices. just to make it more liquidy. I put a tad of yogurt in it too. It tasted soo good. lol. IT WAS A SMOOTHIE! then i put them in ice cube things an froze them.Cant wait to see them eat it tonight.. =( their still not eating their veggies. sly ate some. i saw teethe marks in it so i still gave him his other foods. but someone told me i should just give them veggies if theeir not eating it. so i did that with the girls last night. the way i hung the dish on the door, the door opended a they escaped so they never ate last night. Im hoping they will eat the veggetables tonight. i dont think they will. not sure what to do if they just wont eat the veggies. should i just.. take one ice cube of veggie an one ice cube of fruit an mix that when it melts? i didnt want to because they wouldnt taste the sweetness of the fruits. only the veggies. i want them to have different taste offers. not one whole blend ya know?? or maybe i should mix the hpw with the veggies? hmm.. well seeee

Well. Sly is loving me more and more. No problems with him. The 2 sisters...Still hate us. Snickerz is a little bit more use to us than Kit kat is because we got kit kat about a week later. SO kit kat is very protective of the cage. Seems like she wont let me open the cage an even put something in it. Shes only realy mean when shes in her cage or in her pouch. Like IN something. its weird. But when i take her out. (still terrified she is) ill put my hand near her. If i put my hand too close shell fist up an look like shes gonna strike. But when i put my hand a lil close to her an leave it there she'll come near me an lick me then nibble.Snickerz is the same way. But Snickerz seems to strike more out of the cage (but sometimes shell let us pet her) an kit kat will strike more in her cage. Confussing lol.Hope things will get better with them. I will never give up on them so it'll either get better or ill just live with scared gliders the rest of my life lol. ill never give up. =) I wouldnt want someone to give up on me =). Just cant wait for the day that theyll let me hold them like Sly does. I hope its normal for a scared glider to just...sit in one position all day if shes scared. the girls were laying down on the floor on each other takin a nap im assuming, and i walked by an they both jumped on the sides of the cage an stood in the same place for hours!!!! I tried video cameraing them one night. i put a dim light on but i guess the light still bothered them because snickerz did not move...until the 5th video. i had 7 videos that lasted alll night! she ate twice then went back in her pouch. Weird! WIsh i can spy on them with night vision. lol.I wont do that ever again. though it was a dim light im sure it bothered them because neither of them went on there wheel! they always go on their wheel so. yea light not good. even though the light shouldnt have bothered them cuz it was soo dim..They prob thought we were still awake.

It was kinda cute the other day, one of the girls barked when i went to the bathroom in the middle of the night. THink she was warning her sister that there was a trespasser. =) She did it again later on that night i think they heared Sly on his wheel.

Kit Kat looks like shes gettin bigger. not sure if she was like this when i got her. But shes bigger than snickerz. I hope shes not eating most of the food! dont want her t have more than her serving of the hwp diet! THATS NOT good. Not sure what to do if thats the case. i always see both of them wat but i dont know who eats what. Guess thatll be my next question on here lol

Well about 2 days ago I bought Snickerz sister so she wouldnt be depressed anymore. I named her Kit-Kat. WHen you call her it sounds like your saying ( here kitty cat realy fast) haha. She acts just like her sister. I was afraid to put them in the cage together right off the bat. So i both there pouches and put them next to each other. Nothing was happening so we eventually put them in the cage. Snickerz kept snapping at her sister. I was thinking she didnt recognize her or get her scent yet. But Kit-Kat i tihnk remembered her because she kept trying to go near her. One time i walked by the cage and kit kat walk right under her sister like ( protect me)! after that they seemed to be fine. They both ran into the pouch together. They seem to like each other alot. They both are still scared of me. But i let them out at night an sometimes they go near us out of curiosity but most of the time they just stand in one spot lol. Its cute to catch the two playing with each other. Somtimes they will have little arguments in their pouch. Snickez kind of kicked kit kat out of the big pouch. so kit kat went into the other pouch then snickerz got out of her pouch an went into the other pouch where kit kat was lol. there adorable. I cant wait for them to bond with me like Sly does. All 3 still dont 100% trus me yet. Sly even yells at me sometimes. Mainly when i open his pouch or try to transfer him into his bonding pouch but after he does hes fine.he even let me mom touch him an he saw her for the first time yesterday! this i was happy about. The girls seem nice when they are out of their pouch but scared. But when they are in thei pouches they seem so angry like LEAVE ME ALONE! lol. hopefully well all bond. i know its only been.. not EVEN 2 weeks. so i think im on a good track.

its 9 days since i got my 2 gliders.Sly is bonded with me but doesnt trust me 100% because he still jumps if I move and sometimes hell hide in his pouch when i come in the room ( but only when i turn the light on) he hates the light. I took him out yesterday into my bedroom and let him run around. My little nephew nathan was laying down on the bed with me. Sly was scared of him. Sly kept running all over us haha it feels good it tickles. i let him do so for 2 hours. of course i left the room for a half hour to let him play. This room is totally safe.
The Female is still very depressed. I think she was tooken from her family at a young age.Someone told me they shouldnt leave their family until there 6 months old. Shes 4 months. I know she missed them. She wont eat much. All she eats is yogurt and only sweet potato flavor baby food. And cramberries. She wont eat her eggs, or other fruits or veggies.We dont have the stuff to make the hwp diet yet its on its way though) I havnt even seen her drink water. I even tried bringing it to her. She use to drink it when i brought it to her. So..me and my husband decided to buy her sister. We are hoping this will make her happy. I hope they remember each other only after 9 days of being seperated. I hope they dont fight. If they do i wont know what to do =( I dotn want to seperate them because she needs to be with someone. And if she fight with her own sister all the time then she wont be able to live with any other glider. Im trying to think of the good here. THe lady im buying her sister from told me to take my female gliders bonding pouch with me an put her sister in it when i take her home.And that shell get use to her sister scent that way before i put them together. I hope its ok to put them together right away instead of slowley introducing them? im hoping to bring both of them out of the cage in their own pouches an let them smell each other.I know im gonna be stressed out because its hard work trying to bond with the female i have. now ill have 2 females. i hope they both dont act the same way an hate me an never let me touch them. then i would have doubled the problem =( ah well see how it goes.

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