Our morning ritual is taking a little longer lately. With the sun rising earlier each day, all four gliders seem to be turning in earlier. I usually come in with their yogurt treat around 6:15 a.m., and for the last week or so they have all been in their respective pouches already. All I have to do, though, is ask "Is anybody awake?" and a little head pops up out of a pouch. CB has been the one to come up and out of their pouch first.
Foehn has been curious, but not always enough to actually climb out and come out on to my lap for her treat. Interestingly, Cirrus and
Virga are getting into the same routine. Cirrus will poke her head out of the pouch when she hears me, and then climb out and come to the side of the cage for her licks.
Virga eventually realizes that Cirrus is gone after a couple of minutes and climbs out to join her sister. Fortunately they don't all come out at the same time (Cirrus and
Virga usually take a little longer), otherwise trying to keep four gliders in two separate cages happy would be quite a trick!
M has been changing their pouches each month in keeping with a theme, and this month it is flowers. She found a neat "flower" pouch that we bought. Since it hangs and is pretty long, it has to go in
Foehn and CB's cage. They love it. It is deep and has just a small opening in the middle of flower. They apparently like it so much in fact, that they have passed on their yogurt treat the last few mornings. They look out when I show up in the morning, but I can't seem to interest them in the yogurt. It's apparently not enough for them to give up the comfort of a nice warm pouch. So far I'm 0 for 2. This pouch hangs from the top of the cage instead of on the side like the others, so it tends to swing when you bump or move the cage, and that often gets the gliders stirring. M was cleaning their cage today when both
Foehn and CB popped their heads out to see what all the commotion was about. M plans to make a similar pouch for Cirrus and
Virga soon.
That is so adorable! In our experience, Virga has always been slower to wake, and then sometimes seems dazed for awhile. I'm glad CB and Foehn love their new pouch.
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