T-1 day! I just spoke with my breeder and the gliders are shipping out tomorrow. They will arrive down in Albuquerque in the afternoon, hopefully sound asleep.
I've got the cage all ready for them, and it rules. For being home-made it's not too bad. It's 3'x3'x5', constructed of 0.5" wire mesh and secured together with wire ties. Completely ghetto in terms of workmanship, but plenty big. And the toys... oh the toys. There are an excessive number of toys presently in the cage. I fear there may be no room for gliders in there.
I went down to the Petco in Santa Fe a couple days ago and picked up a bunch of stuff. The toy and cage accessory inventory now consists of:
- 2 ropes
- Wodent Wheel
- wooden ladder
- hampster water bottle
- squishy rigid-yet-malleable rope thing
- spiky stuffed ball with rattle inside
- ferret tube
- 3 feeding dishes
- exercise ball
- wooden branch
- 2 shelves
- 2 sleeping pouches
- bonding pouch
Anyway I hope they like their new mansion because I put a ton of work into it. Future cage upgrades include an infra-red webcam with motion detector to catch nighttime glider fun in progress and some dead cholla cactus skeletons to climb around on.
I can't wait! Pictures and commentary to come soon soon soon (though possibly not as soon as I'd like, since I still don't have my DSL connection at my apartment...).
