Little Bundles of Energy

Sprite and Rossby have a ton of energy, but I guess that should be expected of youngsters. In some ways their personalities parallel those of Foehn and CB. Sprite is the one who will crab in the pouch at times and who has no problem taking a nip at you. She is curious like Cirrus, and if a head pops out of their pouch to check things out it is almost always her.  Rossby does not really care that much about what is going on around him, and seems to sleep through most of the things that get Sprite up and looking around.

They are both skittish, Sprite more than Rossby. They will climb on to us and won't leave, but it has to be on their terms. We are learning that bribes help a lot. I am working on trying to train them to come to the pouch using mealworms.  It's early yet, so I'm not seeing a lot of progress. Rossby is somewhat easy to coax. Sprite is very wary, but the prospect of a mealworm seems to overcome her fear at least for the short term. Last night Sprite managed to get away from me outside of the cage, but she didn't seem as intent on exploring as CB was when he found freedom. I was able to "coax" her into the pouch pretty quickly.

M has been giving them yogurt in the morning and kiefer in the afternoon after CB, Foehn, and Cirrus have theirs. We were told they like their food, and they are proving that each night as most everything we give them is gone in the morning.

M took this photo of Sprite and Rossby at kiefer time this afternoon