Sugar Glider Holiday Cards and Calendars

We recommend you visit Glider Luv Bug to order sugar glider holiday cards and 2008 calendars before it's too late. They're the best! All the pictures feature a gorgeous sugar glider supermodel named Bug dressed up for every occasion imaginable. No where else can you find a sugar glider in full pirate regalia brandishing a cocktail sword!

Mom finally got a new camera and she says we should be very thankful to someone called "eBay" for selling it to her for cheap. Expect pics and reviews of our latest toy acquisitions very soon.

For some crazy reason Mom paid big bucks yesterday for a lady who says she's a vet to poke, prod, and torture us so we're supposed to be very frugal until the holidays are over. We're sure the careful budgeting will last only as long as it takes Mom to find some interesting new toys for us online.

-North & Nocturne

Mom says... P.S.- He doesn't know it yet, but next week North will probably have to start a very long course of meds. Things will be difficult for the duration of his treatment since he won't take his antibiotics willingly but I have high hopes that this will finally cure him of his UTI problems. On the other hand, Nocturne gets very jealous when I isolate North twice a day to dose him so he'll be extra needy and cuddly for a while. Also, I can't leave the syringe out for even a minute with Nocturne around or this happens:

Cork Bark Tube

Cork Tube bought from Black Jungle for $9.99

North: I absolutely love our cork bark tube! I'm sitting on it in the picture above. Mom only let us play with it during out of cage playtime for the first month but we enjoyed it so much that she put it in our cage. Sometimes I just like to sit on this tube and hang out but I also like to work hard at prying up the bark.

Nocturne: I may look uninterested in the cork tube in this picture because I'm just sitting on a hammock grooming myself, but I love it just as much as North. The cork is very lightweight and has a rubbery kind of texture that I prefer over any other type of wood. When I was first introduced to this tube I sat inside it a few times but it's a pretty tight squeeze for a moderately big boy like me so I rarely go in it anymore.

Mom: I love this thing just as much as the boys do. The tube gets peed on a lot so it's great that the cork takes a thorough scrubbing with Dawn very well. I drilled a few holes in it to attach some plastic chain using zip ties so it could hang in the cage and the tube gets more use than just about any of the boys' other toys.

Whisker Bird Toy

Whisker Bird Toy bought at Foster and Smith for $6.29

North: Mom took the above picture of me the first time I ever saw this toy. I look very interested in it, don't I? I liked the paper sticks that formed the whiskers of this toy. Then Mom got this toy wet and when it dried the paper had loosened and started to unravel which I liked even better since it's my mission in life to tear things apart.

Nocturne: I liked this toy but I generally only paid attention to it when North did. It was more interesting once the paper sticks came undone but I'm just not as obsessed with shredding things like my brother so I didn't get as much use out of this toy.

Mom: Overall this whisker toy was really good. It seemed a bit over-dyed; especially the wood block in the middle which leeched color way too easily. After the boys peed on that wood block in the middle a few times, I had to wash this toy. I thought it might ruin the toy since it's largely made of paper but the water just caused the sticks to unravel, which made this toy an even bigger hit. Unfortunately, this toy didn't last all that long but I will definitely buy another one the next time I order from Foster and Smith.

Bonding Pouch by SunCoast

Green Bonding Pouch bought from SunCoast Sugar Gliders for $15.62

North: We had this pouch for a few months when we first came to live with Mom. I never liked it much, especially since most of our other pouches were from Glider Daydreams, which are so comfy.

Nocturne: That's me in the picture leaning out to see Mom's camera. We had been living with Mom for less than a month when that pic was taken so I hadn't gotten used to constantly having the camera in my face yet. This pouch wasn't very comfy or warm but it sure was fun to try to rip apart the silky cord that was supposed to hang around Mom's neck. I also enjoyed biting and chewing on the zipper until I ruined it.

Mom: This bonding pouch from SunCoast was one of the first things I bought when I was preparing for the boys' arrival. Now that I'm a much wiser glider owner I realize that this bonding pouch was seriously overpriced and I do not consider it a quality product. The pouch I got was only a single layer of fleece so all the seams and stitching were exposed inside. That is just a maiming or fatality waiting to happen. Also, the thin silky cord that was supposed to hang the pouch from my neck got some picks and pulls in it which the boys went crazy over and they ended up destroying the cord.

I also bought some cage ropes from SunCoast which were overpriced and the rubber end-caps came off soon after I got them. Thank goodness the boys weren't running on the ropes when they broke because they could've fallen and hurt themselves.

Suncoast seem to have a good reputation within the glider community but I have had nothing but bad experiences with them.