Yesterday I kept Kioko and Washi in their bonding pouch all afternoon. There was a little crabbing from time to time, but for the most part they stayed quiet. I made a pot of turkey soup; while I was pulling the meat from the bones and thawing the vegetables they wiggled a lot. I opened the pouch and offered some meat, but no dice - no one was coming out.
Dinner for the gliders: frozen mixed vegetables (only three kernels of corn in each dish), shrimp, some chicken-squash-corn baby food, strawberry yogurt, freeze-dried blueberries. This morning: all gone, even Shikoni ate his shrimp and yogurt, and he usually doesn't like strawberry! The brothers pretty much eat everything, they're not fussy at all.
Bathroom time this morning. Shikoni played on the curtains, hopping back and forth between my shoulder and the window. He ran over to the door for hide-and-seek a few times, he was really active. Kept climbing up my leg and jumping back down to the floor, or up onto the curtain. Gave him a mealie for being such a good boy when I took him home. He's the sweetest, it took him a long time to get there but it's worth the wait.
Took a bowl with two mealies and yogurt in with the brothers. Put yogurt on my finger, Washi loves it. Kioko accepted a few licks, but mostly burrowed back down into the pouch. He stuck his head and hands out to get a mealie, though. Washi was more interested in the yogurt at first, when he got his mealie it had yogurt on it, and he got it on his face. Kioko cleaned him off; the first time I've really seen one grooming the other. Neither boy came out to play, the only time they've done that is when they were separate. It's very rare that they aren't in the pouch together, so one-on-one time hasn't happened but the once.
I'm getting a digital camera today. Walgreen's has a Kodak 8.2 mp I like for only $100. I'm glad the price is coming down! The last time I looked, one like this was over $200, and the best on the shelf was 7.0 mp. Except for the really fancy ones, $400 or more, and I don't need anything like that at this point in time.
The toy and pouch swap continues. Not every day, but I've done it twice in a week. I wash the toys before I swap them. I won't give the boys Shikoni's nest though, he loves it! He has never pooped in it, I shake it out once a week or so. It doesn't smell either. The little blanket and the rabbit-fur mouse he's taken in don't show any signs of poop or pee either - smell OK, not stiff or dirty. I wonder if he'll share it when they all get together.
Three more weeks then -- introductions! I'll move the new cage into the library, or maybe I'll move my steamer trunk in there and bring Shikoni into my room. I'll let them live in the same room for about a week, bringing the cages a little closer together every day. I think face-to-face intros will take place in the bathroom where it's small and I have much better control. They won't live in the same cage until I am absolutely certain they'll get along, it may take another month or even another year (yikes!) but I'll wait as long as necessary. I keep telling myself that, I really want them to be a little family because poor Little Guy has been so lonely. But his safety and well-being is the most important thing.
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