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Subject: Re: well researched, still questions on older SG bonding
Posted by Bourbon on June 14, 1998 at 00:43:44:

In Reply to: well researched, still questions on older SG bonding posted by Devotchka on June 12, 1998 at 20:38:38:

: I have a SG that is about one month out of the pouch... The breeder is usually a wonderfully attentive person when it comes to starting the bonding process.. However, many family tragedies occurered within quick succession of eachother and she was unable to spend hardly any time with her at all... I have her now, and I am brand spanking new at this. I have researched soooooo much on them,way before I got one, and now after... I haven't tried the pudding ting th at everyone has mentioned, but have tried a lot of different things.. I still have a lot of patiences, but it IS frustrating. So here are a couple of questions I have:

: 1. Is it okay to wake her and carry her in the pouch I made or should I let her sleep in her cage since I many times end up bumping her and waking her?.. I know that lack of sleep in any animal causes stress, and I know she is already going through enough....

Yes it is okay to carry her in the pouch you made it will help in the bonding process.....

: 2. The waking them up every two hours to give them pudding, yay or nay?

you should look in on her in the pouch and pet her often both in the pouch and outside rubbing of the pouch, I have never seen a need to wake a glider every 2 hours.. have a treat handy each time you look in on her or pet her.

: 3. In the last couple of days she has not been as active, I figure it is due to not getting much sleep, which falls back on: Is she getting enough rest?

That is very possible, she needs to look at you as being a safe zone, don't let anything disturb her with the exception of your loving her..(petting, rubbing, talking etc.)

: She crabs and crabs and crabs... NOW she has started to nip, hasn't gotten me, but that is because I moved out tof the way.. Now I have quit moving out of the way and usually have a half a grape that she ends up biting instead and then licking, confused..hehh...

she is crabbing because you still are very strange to her.. that will subside as she learns to trust you. As for the nipping..well1st thing learn not to hold her, let her hold you. that is where the pudding comes in. make note of what you are doing that gives her the oppotunity to nip. Ask yourself.. does she feel safe? is she scared? is she trying to go somewhere and isn't able to? that is when you use the pudding, When you can figure out when she will nip you. also is she eating well? The grapes also will work. the idea is to make sure she only associates pleasantries with your hands.

: I don't know what I really want to ask right now. I just love her completely all ready and want the best for her and don't feel I am doing well enough..good enough?? heh..
: New-SG-mom-in-distress

You are doing fine.. don't stress around her she may sense that too..

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• Thank you Devotchka 03:51:02 6/14/98 (0)