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Posted by: suggieluver02 well, my name is destinee i am a new glider owner and need advice on bonding. my suggie, buttercup, has tried to bite me when i give her food from my hand. i try to show her im good, but it just doesnt work. she has been alone in her cage for almost 2 days now and we are taking her out of her cage to bond 2marrow.i just feed and water her and at night i watch her play.What am i doing wrong. after she gets use to me i am buying a bonding pouch. but we are starting the bonding in the bathroom. we have glider proofed.but i just want her to like me! does any1 have any advice ill take suggestions into thought.

Posted by: kazkoYesterday was a nice adventure. The reason for my coming to Portland was to pick up my camper van. We made it down some 70 miles or so in the early afternoon to a really beautiful and quaint river rafting town nestled in the hills. The owner of this camper van had been given it by their father in law who recently has failing health and just could not do the camper thing any longer. These people camp occasionally with a small homemade teardrop trailer and they decided that they didnt need this old van.

I spoke to the father-in-law twice about the camper to get some questions and history detailed before deciding to purchase the thing. He was an Engineer by trade which presents itself here in the form of all sorts of modifications and projects done to this vehicle by him. The good part of that is that he worked on this over time and was meticulous about it. Any changes he made were wired very well with added relays and fuses and safety precautions and such. He took very good care of the vehicle and this was the only one I have been able to find that had a very solid engine and a working air conditioner and a few other things I have been looking for. The bad about this is that he made a lot of changes. There really are switches all over the place that I havent figured out what they are for yet. And natually, none of it is labeled. many of his changes to the vehicle were to allow his wife to be comfortable with her failing health, but things got too bad for her before he was able to really finished the changes, so he stopped. So for me begins a project of investigation to see what has been done and to then decide what to do with it all.

I spent about 2.5 hours with the son and we exchanged paperwork and off I drove in my really old camper van wondering if I made a good decision or not. This, of course, remains to be seen as I try to get it back to Texas over the next few days, but so far, I think I will be able to make this into something useful for myself.

May I introduce my brand new 1987 Itasca Phasar (Winnebago Lesharo) miniature roadtrip camper.




Along with strange changes to the interior, the interior itself is, well, old. Nonetheless, it isnt too bad and I can make many improvements as this is a very good base vehicle to work with. It spent most of its life in Northern California and has very little to no rust on it. Some cleaning, painting and maybe replacing some fabrics will make this thing look much better inside.

The engine is a weak 2.2L four banger made by Renault. I knew that it would be weak, and it is. But it seems to be able to do 65mph with this three speed automatic transmission and only bogs down up inclines which really isnt so bad considering that you have everything you need behind you including a toilet, shower, kitchen, bed... And all of this getting something along the lines of 17 to 20 mpg is just super and worth getting there slower.

Last night after leaving the seller, we drove around the wine country and ended up in McMinneville at a nice place that had a restaurant on the fifth floor rooftop with a view of the mountains and the town. There was a street festival going on so we enjoyed that for a bit and then came up with a neat idea to stop at a drive in theater on the way home.

We parked the SUV nearby outside of the gate and rode the van inside. It has been ages since I have visited a drive in theater. The camper was amazingly comfortable for this. I leaned the seats back and kept swiveling them so that I could move around and put my feet out the window and all sorts of nice things. The toilet is handy and so is the fridge. In the dark for 6 hours of movies nobody noticed that the camper was so old; instead, it was a very nice respit from the road and was simply comfortable and fun to be in.

I leave you with this image.

Posted by: Roxy and Stormys mammaYesterday i got my 3 year old sugar gliders. I have never had any before but i have done plenty of research on them and i really wanted one. So i went on Craigslist and found two for one hundred dollars with supplies and all. I figured that was a pretty GREAT deal considering how expensive they are just for ONE. Well when they were one they had to have surgery on their tail because the girl who last owned them left them with a family memeber who had some other sugar gliders and she put them in the cage with hers and they got attacked so now they only have half a tail, but they still are as cute as can be. They like to eat cat food, apples, carrots, and bird seeds. But they have not really ate alot since i got them. A few of my friends and i played with them for a long time last night. And they were gliding everywhere. I know it's gonna take time, but i wish they would bond to me quickly. Because Stormy likes to bite me a lot and she is ALWAYS sleeping. And Roxy loves to be on my back or head but barley ever lets me hold her in my hands. So i have been leaving them in the pouch and wearing it around my neck when they sleep. Hopefully soon they will get used to me =]

Posted by: kyro298Losing a family member-even if they're furry is quite devastating. I had been practically begging my husband to put her out of her misery for months to no avail. Then, he finally made the appointment. After that, I was scared and petrified. Setting the date, time and place for her death was so different than knowing we were "going to" in the near future. I feel guilty and evil. I can rationalize that I shouldn't and that she was truly suffering, but now I feel like I took her from the family. I know I technically didn't but the tears streaming down my husband and son's faces make me feel otherwise. We all know and understand it was necessary and that we were all selfish for keeping her to make ourselves happy. I know I'm not evil, I know I'm not a murderer but it doesn't make it FEEL any better.

I didn't have to wipe up any slobber off the floor last night or this morning. I had no one to walk last night or this morning. No one barked when the doorbell rang yesterday afternoon. No one wagged their tail when I walked in the door last night. No one nudged my arm while I watched TV last night. There's no little clicks of nails on the floor and no one under my feet. No one was in my way when I vacuumed either. How is it that I now don't think those things are annoying?? She's only been gone 24 hours and I know it will get better, but my heart REALLY hurts right now.

Posted by: kazkoI am buying a camper van from a family in Oregon today. I have been looking for this specific type for some time. I finally found "the one" and flew out to Portland yesterday in order to pick it up today. I do mean yesterday; all day long... From what I remember, I woke up at 5am, hauled butt to the airport, and I finally got to my destination and in bed at around 3:30 am.

My brother is a pilot and he gave me a guest pass on his airline to make this one-way journey. I still had to pay $50 for this non-rev ticket but that surely beats the $300+ for a normal ticket, especially a last minute one. Problem is that I had to fly standby with little to no priority.

To assist in driving back from Oregon to Texas, I enlisted my nephew who is able to fly completely free to him since he is the son of a tenured pilot. Also, he gets priority and ends up at the top of most any standby list.

So here we are rushing to catch the 7am flight out and we are running late, so I split with my nephew at the ticket counter and I run to the gate since I already printed my pass. I make it, but I do not make the cut. Turns out that 20 people were waiting for 4 seats. And to boot, after ten years with this company, my brother had never set up anyone in their online system for flying, so he messed it up somehow, my nephew's ticket was canceled, and he couldnt even get past the ticket counter.

So we went home.

Tried again for the last flight of the day out. My nephew was first on the list and I was 11th. He was called first and he told the people that he couldnt fly without me so they didnt just stand him aside to wait and see if I got on or not, they just tore up his ticket and said thanks but no thanks.

Well, giving up his spot must have been the magic I needed because I was the last name called due to a no-show and I got on the plane at the very last second on the very last seat.

Four and a half hours later I am deplaning alone in Seattle and the plane is a bit late and I have only two remaining flights to get me to Portland for the evening. I haul my butt across the airport train and to the correct counter to get myself listed and I do not make the 10pm flight. Crossing my fingers for another hour, I wander around the desolate airport searching for some coffee and everything is closed. I eventually get lucky and find a vending machine with a single line of Starbucks Frappuccino at the very top and I rejoice in my luck. Sliding my credit card for this worth-every-penny-at-the-time $4 beverage, I make my selection and then WHAM BAM BAM WHAM, the machine pushes the helpless little bottle over the edge from over 6 feet high. I watch in awe as the bottle impacts the bottom at great velocity and wonder why the bottle didnt expolode on contact. I try to figure out why the glass bottle had to be put on the top shelf of the machine but find no answers there.

The 11:00pm flight begins to load and I nervously await my judgement. The gate person finally calls over the PA, "all full" and turns everyone away for the night. I was first in line to get my "tomorrow" ticket and he told me to stand aside for a second as he is waiting for one more person to show. I happily did so and prepared myself for travel. Person never showed and I got the "go" and skipped happily down the stairs to the tarmac gate, tossed my luggage at someone who wanted it and I climbed the steep stairs to my temporary twin turbo prop tuna can haven which did in fact deliver me safely to Portland where I was able to soon find myself at a friends home sleeping on the beloved floor.

For those of you in the Texas 103F oven, I slept with the windows open last night and I got very very chilly. Brrrrrrr!

I think my nephew is going to try to get up here today or tomorrow on his own and then we will begin our lengthy fun-filled roadtrip back home to the oven.

In our future I see some cascade mountain trails, sand dunes and atvs, caving, possums, and other various adventures along the way...

See ya soon Billy Bob!

Posted by: kazkoThe storm we had last month took Robin's cage roof and I have been slacking at rebuilding it. She hasnt even been out in her cage lately because it is way too hot and she is sickly to boot. But it's just been plain hot and I've had no good reason to go out in the nasty and get ganged up on by mosquitoes.

For some odd reason I felt like working on it tonight so I rebuilt the roof a bit stronger and added shingles which I should have done originally.




Also, I previously had her webcam electronics sitting under the cage debris pan in a plastic box. It wasnt the best of situations. So today I also built a weather resistant electronics box out of a cheap tool box.

I installed an exhaust fan at the bottom to keep the gadgets cool and hung it on the side of the cage.




It holds a wifi bridge, two camera servers and will also hold the power supply for her cooling nestbox as well as the control for her warming pad in the winter.

Posted by: kazkoIt has been extremely hot here in Texas so I have been keeping my opossum indoors. I'd rather allow her to be in her large outdoor cage which she is used to, so I have devised an air conditioned nestbox for her.

Basically I took an old thermoelectric portable cooler, cut a hole, installed a cat door and then added a thermostat to keep it from freezing her. Very simple concept in the end.

The thermoelectric cooler can keep her up to 30F cooler than outside temperatures and it only draws 150 watts in the end when running. I think that a switching power supply will be more efficient too so I will report back with stats after all is said and done with this project.

Right now she is not trained to use the cat door, so that will be a make or break for this, but I think that she is smart enough to get it quickly.

Posted by: xoxosugargliderxoxoI have a male sugar glider. He is sweet and healthy. His parnter died about a year ago. I recognize that sugar gliders are communal animals. If some one who loves and has sugar gliders would like to adopt Kolaya. Please e-mail me. rcahill85@gmail.com. I live in south florida.

Posted by: margielollI've had my two new suggies (unnamed boy and girl as of yet) for over 2 weeks now. I've been SO patient, letting them chill in the cage for a few days, putting one of my shirts in there, giving them mealies and lickies off my finger. I thought I was doing everything right. I had the girl out and in my shirt pocket. I was letting her lick the BML off my fingers (this was a licky treat for them since it's the first time they've gotten it). She crawled out of my pocket and crawled up to my shoulder, to my back and around etc. I was really excited! Then she jumped off my back and started trying to escape.

I turned around and gently cupped my hand over her whole body just to stop her w/o grabbing her. Then I brought my other hand underneath her to pick her up. I already had her halfway back to her cage when she bit the crap out of my finger, like as hard as she could, she was HOLDING ON! I was just squealing and trying not to yell and scare her more. She finally let go, leaving a GASH on the tip of my finger about 1/4" long and at least as deep. Today the whole tip of my finger is black and blue.

I was cried and cried after ward. My husband said that my feelings were probably more hurt than anything... I dunno cause that bite freakin' HURT... so I think it hurt my finger and feelings equally.

*sniff sniff*

Posted by: co2chantelLet's see I've had my sugars for one week and two days. I got two older sugars from a rescue here in Phoenix, a male and female. They were doing great eating, and running around there new cage, but in the last two days they seem to not be eating as much? The male I named him Stich he will still take mealworms from me and eat them, but the female Lilo won't touch them, a couple days ago she loved them? I tried taking them out in the bathroom she climed up my leg, and onto my back, he just stayed in the corner?? The first time I did tent time they were both all over the place, now they just try to hide? Could they be depressed?

Posted by: PenelopeeSuggie, suggie,
Where did you go?
I've searched up and down,
But have nothing to show!
One minute one my shoulder,
The next you disappear..
I hear you hopping around the house..
I'm sure you must be near.
There you are suggie!
You silly girl.
In to my arms you twirl,
With that puffy little tail swirled.
Always to me, you'll come back..
In my palm waiting, will be a snack.
:)

Posted by: suggieluver02[size=2][/size=2]( sighs) im getting one just need to fing my baby girl a friend.

 

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