In Reply to: Re: Age... posted by Ryan on June 10, 1999 at 14:00:23:

In actuality, 5 or 6 months is a real good age for bonding, when babies first leave their parents, they cry alot, by the time they are 5 or 6 months they have already started to devolope a sense of self and their personality really starts to show. I have worked with unbonded 2 year olds and older only to have them bond with their new owners. It all depends on how much you as an owner puts into it. It does matter whether you choose the glider or allow the glider to choose you. It also maters as to how much time, patience and understanding the new owner has. I have found where many people that research Gliders for a long period of time, and know what to expect, usually has a less difficult time. All Gliders have very unique personalities. If you take each step that a glider makes and figures that that is the best you will get appeciate that, the bond gets better and tighter. Not to mean , by any means that you stop trying to help the bond as you go. Each step is an accomplishment. I DO NOT believe that any glider CANNOT bond well, some take longer than others for many different reasons. Many of the reasons however can be rectified with time, lots of time spent loving that glider. The hardest and biggest part of bonding is.. TRUST.. not you trusting it, but allowing it the time it needs to learn to trust you explicitly. Giving them contant attention, but yet allowing it the time to learn you are safe..That you are only there, to be there for them.. Many times that means not trying to hold it till they are ready to hold you..The key to bonding is, love, patience and trust.. Mine got us when she was 6 months OOP, and bonding wasn't a problem, I knew what to expect, that was to expect the worse. Everyone said that older Gliders don't bond well. But how old is 6 month in a gliders life that lives 15? That is still a very young glider.

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