shimmy-waddle

One of the joeys barked for a huge amount of time early this morning. I counted 50 barks and that's after I thought to start counting. There were at least 3-times that many. Yeah, it's adorable (think puppy barks) but it's also loud and I could tell that Cro was ready for it to be over. I got up thinking that if I play with them the barking would stop. It did! But Jagerbar also climbed out the open cage door. They are so quick.

She wasn't afraid but she also wasn't ready to go back inside the habitat. Buddy and I kept an eye on her and let her play since she wasn't ready to be caught. The funniest thing is when she decided to go down the hardwood floor of the hall. Her mobility clearly showed that she is made for trees and not flat surfaces. She moved with her arms straight out to the sides and she did a sort of shimmy-waddle. Very fun to watch, lol.

Finally I was able to herd her back toward the habitat where she climbed in the open door all by herself. Buddy wasn't all that concerned and just wanted me to stop messing around with the gliders and get him some moist cat food.

feathers

I read somewhere that gliders like feather toys. Cro let me know that yeah, gliders eat birds in the wild. They went crazy for this feather toy!

instant sweater arms

Just when I thought I was having a break-through regarding the biting thing, they gave prying up one of my fingernails an extra try. ow!!!

They didn't draw blood and they really aren't trying to hurt me, but they are determined to see what is under there.

tst! tst! tst!

I have cut off the sleeves of an old sweater and keep them on top of the habitat for quick and easy use. I pull on the sleeves before I reach into the habitat for playtime. It's an amazingly effective guard against those little claw marks from them holding on and running all over my bare arms. They love the sweater material too.

The only protection for my bare hands is just saying "tst!" when needed. I think I might end up saying "tst!" any time something hurts just on automatic. Stub my toe? "tst!" ...lol

They are growing so fast!

The first pic is Cro holding Fooks (September 15th).

The second pic is me holding Jager this morning (October 18th).

Cro holding Fuchsbau – 8.5weeks OOP

me holding Jagerbar – 15 weeks OOP.

aw :)

Fuchsbau made a break for the wide open living room at about 3:30am when I was up to play with them for a bit. I actually woke Cro and he jumped up to help look for her. I suggested that we just stand still because she wasn't afraid, she was having an adventure and would make some noise. She did, she was climbing on the television entertainment center. I presented her with a sleeping pouch and she climbed right in. Excitement over! I felt bad for having to wake Cro at 3:30am but he was the one who spotted her first.

Jagerbar was doing acrobatics the whole evening. It cracks me up when she tears upside-down across the roof of the habitat at speed or hangs upside-down by her toes. I think I'm going to have to figure out a way to enclose the room soon so they can be out for a little while and safe (and practice gliding!). All supervised of course.

Fooks was super cute (as usual) after I placed her back in the habitat and offered her a piece of dried fruit. Licky treat!!! You can see her normally wide eyes are squinted in enjoyment in the videos below. The second one is my favorite… look at that little tongue go!

circus tricks

The joeys are just too cute!

They have no fear of me at all now. I got up at 5am to interact with them a bit since I heard them jumping around and playing.

They immediately climbed all over my arms. Since I thought to grab a dried mango licky treat beforehand their attention was diverted so they didn't try to taste my fingers too much. It rather hurts when they go for the sensitive spots between my fingers or next to a fingernail or the underside of my arms. ow!

They were climbing all over and even bouncing on each other as they jumped from the side of the cage to my hand (only to land on the other joey who was already there).

Fooks climbed up my arm, up to my shoulder, down my back and up the other shoulder before I could do anything to stop her. Jagerbar was clinging to my arm so I wasn't able to free myself in time to play goalie. Fooks climbed right back inside the habitat though so no harm, no foul. :)

I did a better job of playing goalie to keep them in the habitat until I finally gave in and shut them back inside.

I love it. I dreamt about them last night too, except there were four of them and they were climbing all over the house! Even on the ceiling. That is one of their new favorite things to do inside the habitat, hang from the ceiling.

Cro said that Buddy Cat was sitting on the stool with one paw on the cage bars as the joeys ignored him and went on playing. They have no fear, I tell you. They don't need to (the cat is a very old and gentle boy who has already shown no interest in hurting them).

It is so fun to see them enjoying life.

bonding takes time