Zephyr (2)

I feel the need to show off my baby some more. I took some more pics. She is so funny in her wheel. She runs and jumps, and she gets it going so fast she spins around. But she hides there, and peeks around. She actually looked out, pulled her head back behind the white piece, and then popped her head back out.


At night, or rather, during the day, she sleeps in my shirt. Now that it's warmer, she sleeps under it more than in it. Which creates a problem when I tried to get her out. I pull her out shirt and all, but if she's awake she grips the cage, and I can't get her. I took this picture after I put her back in her cage after playing. She wanted to sleep some more before she woke up to play. She really wakes up at midnight, and then she jumps around like crazy. But here, she's just kind of snuggling in to sleep.

I took this picture directly after the one above. I took the one above so you could see her, but I didn't like the bars, so I took this one. I almost didn't because you couldn't see her face so well. But turns out... it's my favorite picture of her. It's actually the background on my computer now.

She loves her wheel. So much. She reaches up to the bar that runs through the middle and climbs up into the top. Then she does one of two things. Sometimes she climbs out the top and crawls along the ceiling of the cage. And sometimes she just holds on and the wheel spins. She ends up upside down at the bottom of the wheel. It's her own little ride. This is my other favorite picture.

Zephyr

And for something a little different...

Two weeks ago I brought my baby home. This is Zephyr, a sugar glider. This is her on day 1. She hung out like this for a while, and then stayed in that position to eat some gilde-r-chow.


Here, you can see her favorite thing... to the right of the picture, there is a slice of apple. She is so cute when she eats it. You can hear her scooping a bit out, and then a light lip smacking sound.

Her other favorite thing... her play wheel. As you can see, she was kinda hiding in there. She did that for a few days, but not anymore. She's finally comfortable in her home. And see the sticker on the front of the wheel. When I put it in there, I couldn't get the sticker all the way off, so I decided to get it later. The day after I took this, the sticker was gone. She took it off for me. It was balled up in the poo tray. Speaking of the poo tray... she reaches down for the newspaper and rips some of it into little strips.

Here is an close up of my cutie. You can see her hand best in this one. She has four hands that are very similar to human hands. The front hands look like human hands, except her thumb is shortest and her pinky is the longest. Her back hands are a little more like ape hands, where the thumb is set further away.

We've had a lot of fun getting to know each other. She's bitten me four times, but it doesn't really hurt. Her claws, though... I have scratches all over my palm and thumb. I hold her some every day, and she's way more relaxed now then when we started. Then she hangs out in her bonding pouch for a few hours. She seems to like that. We went shopping today, and tomorrow we are going to the grocery store.

The most exciting thing so far was her 45 seconds of freedom. Last night, I opened the door to her cage to put more food inside. I know she gets crazy at night because she's nocturnal, but I didn't realize she'd be that crazy. One look at the open door and she leapt out towards freedom. She ran into the corner, but I caught her. Almost had a heart attack.