Wow, ok so it has been a long time since I have posted. Vash & Rikku’s joeys are now 10 weeks OOP and are really fun to have around. One of them is sold and the other is still available as of right now. This weekend we’re going to a sugar glider gathering near Kansas City. We’re really excited about it. We are just getting ready to open our online store and have been busy repackaging products and getting them ready to sell. We’re kicking it off with a 15% off grand opening sale & will be taking our products with us to this event to sell a few there. This is kind of a fun hobby that we’re getting into. We will also be picking up 3 new gliders at this event that a breeder in Texas is bringing up to us. We are so excited about them. We’re putting them together as a breeding trio. The boy is a light platinum white mosaic pinto 50% leu het. The girls are a WFB 50% leu het and a WFB 33% leu het. We can’t wait to start seeing how pretty their babies are! Pics of the new trio will be posted soon. But here’s one pic we’ve uploaded of the mosaic boy:
Platinum White Mosaic Sugar Glider
Ok so that’s our biggest update. And now I have a few little stories about Vash & Rikku’s joeys.
We recently got a pop-up tent and we LOVE it. Click here to see and or buy one like it. We line the bottom with fleece, take all of our suggies in there (from the one colony), & let them have free-range to climb & jump as they please. The tent pops up & down in a matter of seconds…it is so easy! And the gliders love the play time & we don’t have to worry about them getting loose in our house & getting injured. It’s a win-win. Anyway, we had the gliders out in the tent a week ago & the joeys were really funny. We had a mug with some mealworms in the tent with us & one of the joeys took a nose-dive into it & then poked his little head out & just stared at us all cute-like. He didn’t eat the mealworms then…just sat on them. Then a little bit later, the other joey took a nose-dive into the mug & was desperately trying to get under his brother. Eventually, he poked his little head out all cute-like & then just sat there. It was really cute. And I got a picture!
Cup of Sugar
Next story…Ok so we’ve been really bad/busy & haven’t had our gliders out of their cage for a few days. Last night I was going to take them out & I opened the cage door to put their food in there & one of the joeys really wanted to come out then, so I let him climb on me. They do that all the time, but it’s been a while since I’ve let them climb on me outside of the tent. Anyway, he climbed up & just sat on my shoulder while I was messing around with the tent & trying to figure out how to measure some fleece for the tent bottom & he never jumped off. Then I got frustrated with my fleece (long story) & I sat down & checked emails & he just sat there on my shoulder. He didn’t even care when the dog was trying to sniff at him. At one point he did jump onto the dog, which I thought would be a total disaster, but she stayed calm while I pulled him off of her. He then went over & sat on Ben for a while. He was just so good! I mean I knew he was tame like that but since lately we’ve mostly had them out free-ranging inside the tent, I really didn’t expect him to stay on my body so well. It was awesome.
Oh yeah & then later I got out a cricket & put it in a container in the cage & Rikku (the mom) snatched that sucker up lightning fast. Then that same joey ran over & yanked a leg off of it & stole it & started munching on it. We haven’t fed the joeys crickets, so I was a little surprised by him being so interested in it. Then he tried to steal the whole thing from his mom & they were playing tug of war with it. Then while she was chewing, he started trying to get some out of her mouth. It looked like they were making out. It was so cute! I was cracking up.
Ok that’s all for the stories for now. Hopefully I’ll find time to start blogging more regularly.
Misty
