Another Day

So another day has arrived and I (being unemployed and waiting for the next school semester to begin) have to find something to do. This week we have been riding bicycles each day in hopes that it will help aid me in the loss of weight. I spend a lot of time behind a keyboard and because of that, my increasing joy of eating and the fact that I quit smoking has added quite a few pounds to my body. In an act of kindness (to you the viewer) I have decided to try to lose some weight, but I hate exercising. So anyhow back to fighting boredom, I decided to take out the little boogers and play with them.

First I took Mojo out and de-pooped him, afterwards I tried to get him to go to sleep in my hand like I have been able to in the past. He was not having it, he fought tooth and nail (Literally) to get out of the grip and would not Go The F**k to Sleep . So I decided to take him to my bedroom and let him crawl around on my bed, that way if he tries to get away I have a better chance of catching him. In the process of playing he found a place in the room that he really wanted to jump to. However, since the place he wanted to jump to was a few boxes in a corner and I knew if he got over there I might have a hard time getting him back (I think he knew it too). I just kept spinning so he could not lock on to the boxes and that kind of made him mad. He decided to climb up my face and get on my head (Which is now bald because I shaved it) to see the boxes. This way no matter where I turned he could see the boxes. So I thought I would get smart and duck my head down so that he could step off and get on the bed, but this proved to be painful as he just dug his nails in deeper (Did I mention I also have a sun burn on the top of my head because of the baldness?).

After playing with Mojo for an hour I decided to get Precious out and give her some fun time. I brought Precious into the bedroom and tried to put her on the bed and she immediately ran back to me and up my body to my shoulder. Then I spun around and she spotted the boxes that Mojo had spotted but instead of trying to jump she ran down my leg to see if she could get a better vantage point. After she reached the edge of my shorts she turned around and ran up me in a frantically fast pace. Then she tried it again and again, first down then swoosh back up. She then went down, and braved the wild by jumping off me and onto the bed. She looked over at the boxes with a menacing grin (Well it looked like a grin :P), she headed over to my curtains. I am sure that she knew by getting on the curtains she could easily run to the boxes that she had been so intent to get to. When I wen to go for her so that she could not get on the curtains she turned around and ran up my arm again. It feels good that she was comfortable enough to come back to me. I am almost at a place willing to let her do a little more exploring of this place. I will never let her just go and explore, but part of me wants to let her go and see if she will come back.

Just Not Skinny

Hey everyone!

Ok so it has been a few days since my last blog, I guess life sort of happens and sometimes I just procrastinate. So since Mojo has been back things have been back to normal. He doesn't bite unless you hold him a way he doesn't want to be held. Precious and Mojo are getting along better than ever, not that they didn't before.

A few days ago we put the tent up and brought Precious and Mojo in there with us. Stephanie, Jayden, Luka and myself were in the tent and we turned down the lights. We brought a flashlight, and napkins in with us to make sure we could clean up if they decided to defecate in the tent. It was fun, though neither of them really jumped around. Most of the time they just crawled around trying to search things out. Mojo got on my shoulder and I think he was gonna give me a wet willy but he tickled my ear and I jerked away before he could. Mojo was sniffing Luka's toes which made her a bit edgy since she wasn't sure if he would take a chomp of her toes or not. It was indeed fun, though it got real hot and sweaty in the tent so it's not something we do all the time.

We took Precious and Mojo to Jaydens peace camp today to show everyone. Everyone, kids and adults alike, really enjoyed seeing, petting, and learning about sugar gliders. At first I was only gonna take out Precious since she is a little more behaved than Mojo, but I decided it would be ok to take them both out for the show. After the show, the kids got in a single file line and came through and took turns petting precious. When Jayden came by to pet her, she jumped onto his shirt. It was cool to see that Precious could recognize Jayden in the midst of all the other kids there.

Well that about does it, if I think of anything else I'll write it down and put it in the next blog. Since I am new to blogging, I have yet to get in the frame of mind of reminding myself to write everything down when it happens for the blog. I'll get it though. Another idea I have is to do some Video Blogs (VLOGS) and post them to my Youtube channel

SIDE NOTE: My brother came over this past weekend and I cleaned up his neck using clippers, so I decided since he was here and I was in need of a hair cut I'd let him shave my head. Now I look like Uncle Fester. Ok not quite that bald, but I did take it down to the lowest setting on the clippers. Ok back to the point, when Jayden saw my head he asked if I could do his so he could look like Daddy. I said yeah but mom didn't agree and this is one argument I won't win so I dropped it. There is no-way I am getting between mom and school pics.

Just Not Skinny

Mojos escape

A video of Mojo Sleeping

Around 1:40 pm on July 24, 2011 i was holding Mojo in my hand. He decided to go to higher ground and climbed on my shoulder. Normally I hold him pretty tight but he has really been showing progress in the bonding experience so I let him go, besides there really wasn't anywhere he could jump to (so I thought). Well without any notice he jump to the wall behind me, however he could not grab it because it is panelling. So when he did Jump I got scared and sort of lunged to grab him, which scared him and he jetted off. My door was opened but I don't think he was initially going for the door until he saw it as an escape from this huge maniac (me) coming for him. So he hopped as fast as he could (faster than I could get to him) out side on to my deck and then up a pine tree. My first reaction was to get my shoes on and try to scale the tree but it is at least 15-20 feet up before the first branch and I only have a 6' A-frame ladder. So I watch as he climbed higher and higher.

Jayden started to cry, and I was faced with having to text Luka (she was at work) explaining that I had just lost our baby. He is a baby. He is only 14 weeks out of pouch (oop). So I did not get a response fast enough so I called Luka at work and a woman there answered and when she knew it was me she started to playfully harass me. I was not up for the playfulness and it took every bit of composure that I had to keep from going off on her. She finally gave the phone to Luka and then I told her and she thought I was lying. However this is not something I would joke about, I just couldn't be able to hold a straight face if it wasn't true. So as I am sure she was crying after I got off the phone I thought of every way to try to get him back. I put the cage with Precious in it in hopes that he would smell her, especially since I think he is bonded with her. I thought maybe she will bark or make a noise to get his attention, she did not. I saw him looking down, from one of the branches, at me placing the cage out side. I put apples with his Glide-a-mins on it and put it in his pouch and tied it up into the tree as far as I could get too.

Luella came home for lunch and went out on the deck and started to ring a bell that was in their cage. She said he always came to the bell. She rang that bell her entire lunch. I don't think she ate anything. She said she was going to buy flash lights and more bells to ring and shine all night. She went back to work, and I had to find something to take my mind off the situation. Not only was my little guy out in the wild where he could get hurt, it was my fault. Everything I tried to take my mind off the matter did not work. So I searched 'Help my Glider ran up a tree' and found some hope in the stories goole returned. One person had posted to a forum that after 5 days her little baby was barking from a tree as she was going to work. I had hope and despair all at once.

We Left Precious outside until about 11:30 pm, with the heat lamp on. We opened a window so we could hear if Mojo started to bark or make any sounds. So around midnight I decided I need to go to bed, I have to get up early to register my new classes at HVCC. Though I thought it would be impossible to sleep, it was not. I was out fast and hard. Until about 3:50 am, to which I was abruptly woken up by a very excited Luka. If I remember correctly I heard, "Babe wake up, I think Mojo is in the kitchen!" with the same excitement my kids have when they have discovered Santa was here. Now my first thought was to say go the eff to bed. But I had reconsidered after a vision of another abrupt wakening by Luka when Precious was sick (see Rewind - a little Precious History). So I figured I would oblige her and got up. Then, to my surprise, I saw a furry tailed creature jumping in my kitchen. I couldn't believe it, infact when I got him in my hands I had to check him over to make sure it wasn't another glider. I mean remember I was just woken out of a state of bliss and still foggy and here in my house was what seemed to be my little darling. Luka made him and apple with his vitamins and we let him sit on the table while eating the apple.

I looked him over and he seemed to have what I believe to be tree sap on him. I started to remove the sap from his nails, I didn't want him to bring it in the cage to Precious, just in case it was something other than pine sap. So I held him in the Mendenhall and and he looked exhausted. He started to fall asleep but we didn't let him. We woke Precious and brought her out to him and she immediately hissed at him, and he hissed back. I imagined I knew what they were saying, and the dialog in my head went something like. "Where the hell have you been?" "you smell like pine juice and hooker spray", "Where you out at the club again messing with those damn hookers?", "Get your ass back in that cage and clean yourself up". Although the hissing didn't last as long as my imaginary conversation did.

After a little while of holding Mojo and Precious, we decided to let them go back to the cage and rest. They both went to their hammock and cuddled a little. I noticed later on that he went to the bottom of the cage where we have a t-shirt on their heat rock. Though we haven't had the heat rock on for some weeks now because of the temperature and neither one of them ever go down there. So I turned on the rock to make sure he was comfy and warm. Precious went into her wheel and stayed there for quite a while. Eventually he came out from under the t-shirt on the bottom and joined her in the wheel. When I put my hand in he crabbed and put on his big boy face which really worried me because we had gotten past that stage in the bonding process. All morning if I made any movement he crabbed, so I just figured he was exhausted and just needed to get some rest.

So after a long days rest I pulled Mojo out to de-poop him and get him ready to pouch him and take him to TKD. Then I de-pooped Miss Precious and put her in her pouch and we went to TKD. He didn't make a peep the whole time we were at TKD, in fact he crawled up into a ball and passed out. I began writing this blog while he slept at TKD. After TKD we went to Wal-Mart to do some shopping and he again didn't peep until I tried to swing his pouch around to my back so I could unload the shopping cart with out squishing him and he flipped out it was actually quite funny. When we got home I put both of them in the cage and they both cuddled in their hammock. Shortly after that he came out and went into his dining room to eat. Now he is running around the cage and she is passed out in the hammock. Ok so now you have read my account the the great escape. I had Luka write her side of the story and I am going to put that below. I of course wrote this from memory and because a lot of it happened while I was groggy, my accounts and Luella's may be slightly different. I am going to post hers unedited as to keep her story genuine. Most likely her times and order of events are probably more accurate because well we all know women have better memories. I mean think about every time a man is in a fight with a woman. The man can't ever remember the things the woman did wrong, but the woman remembers what you did wrong, when you did it wrong, and what you were wearing when you did it wrong. Until next time, Happy trails.

Just Not Skinny

Ok so I’m at work & it’s 2pm when I get a call from Jim saying he lost Mojo. I really thought he was joking but he said he wasn’t joking & that he wouldn’t joke about that! He said he was holding him & Mojo jumped off him & out the door & up the 2nd tree next to the porch. I was ready to cry, I mean I wanted so bad to come home but I couldn’t, Tristan was on lunch & I was waiting for her to get back so I could go home for lunch. It was really hard to stay focused at work knowing our little boy was not inside safe where he belongs, he was out in the wild. I got home for lunch & sure enough no Mojo Jim had put their cage on the porch & had an apple, the wheel & some food all on the cage I added yogurt to the top of the cage thinking maybe he would smell that more than the apple. I play with him in the morning with their toys & one of the toys has a bell on the bottom & when I shake it he comes to it so I thought about shaking his toy & making the bell sound. I’m not sure if it was going to work or not but at this point what could it hurt. I didn’t want to go back to work but I had to & just before I left to go back I shook the toy again & this time I seen him in the 3rd tree in the yard & got really excited but he was gone again so I go back to work. Now keep in mind these trees are pine trees & about 100-150 ft tall & he is close to the top so we cannot go get him.

I got home from work & still no Mojo it is now 6:15pm & he has been missing since about 1:50pm he has been missing for just over 4 hours now in the wild not know where our little boy was. I stated ringing bells walking around the yard looking like I’m crazy walking & shaking a bell & calling his name. I did this off & on throughout the evening with my little boy helping me ring another bell. We didn’t want to tell our daughter because we were hoping he would come back & we would not have to tell her but that didn’t work & when we told her she broke down crying & went to a friend’s house. I called our oldest boy asking him if he could come home & scale the other tree maybe to scare him back to the first tree & maybe down to us but he didn’t have a way to get here until later. When he did come up he look & was willing to go up but it was after dark & really didn’t want to scare Mojo further away. I started asking on different websites how to get him back & what other things I can do that we maybe we’re not doing, but they all said to do pretty much just what we were doing. A couple of people said to call the fire department & if I thought it would have worked I would have but I think they would have just scared him further away. It was about 11:30 when Jim & I decided to go to bed; we brought Precious & her cage in the house & put fresh apples & food out for him. About 1am Jim & I came back out held Precious & check on the food & apples but still no sign of Mojo so I opened the living room window in case she tried calling him maybe he would come back, not that he would be able to get into the window with the screen on it but hey I’m willing to sleep on the porch for him at this point. Jim held Precious for a little bit more as he read me a few things off the internet about bonding then we went to bed about 1:30am.

I got woken up at 3:15am by something I’m not sure what but knew I would not be able to go back to sleep without checking on the porch to see if Mojo had come home so I grabbed my phone & a blanket & was planning on resting on the couch until morning so I didn’t wake Jim up. I can out opened the door just a little bit & turned the porch on 50% but no sign of Mojo so I went & sat on the couch looking out the window trying to make some calling/hissing sounds to see if I could get him to make noises back but nothing. I turned the TV on all the lights were off in the house but the TV & I heard a noise in the kitchen, it sounded like a bottle falling into the sink (we do have mice problems at times) I hide behind Precious’s cage thinking it was a mouse & used my phone to turn on the lights & I saw what I thought might be a fuzzy tail. So I started to move a little closer & it looked like Mojo but I was not sure & seeing as I’m scared of mice & I really thought it was him. I ran in woke Jim up saying “Mojo is in the kitchen, I think Mojo is in the kitchen”, he said “What do you mean who is in the kitchen?” I said again I think Mojo is in the kitchen! He ran out behind me & sure enough Mojo was in the kitchen running behind the sink along the window & around to the counter. Jim just picked him right up we gave him an apple with glide-a-mins & brought Precious over to see him & they were hissing at each other (hissing is a good thing for them, it’s them talking).

We were so excited to have our little boy home, I texted Stephanie & Jimmy to let them know, I also texted Niki & Heidi to let them know.

Luka

Holy effin Mojo

It's a nerve relaxing, guilt releasing MIRACLE. Holy wow, I am so having a hard time keeping this from a R rated post. Ok so now as I posted the earlier I lost Mojo, well I want everyone to know that I REALLY DID LOSE HIM. Even though we have only had him for a short while anyone who has one of these little guys knows how fast you become so attached to them. So I do not mind telling you guys, aside from the fact that I am the one that accidentally let him escape, I almost cried cause I missed him.

It is 3:58 am, so I am exhausted so all you get right now is hi, how are you doing? Oh by the way Mojo found his way home……

Thats right Mojo is back in his cage right now and while I am probably not going to be able to go back to sleep I am off to do so and then we will right what happened tomorrow and repost.

Mojo - No more

Well today is a sad day here, Because my little guy Mojo has escaped and ran up a tree. I do not have much to write other than we are doing what we can to try to get him back. There are a few stories online that gives us hope and encouragement so we will be setting up a cage and a heat rock with food and water and hope that he gets scared and comes home. I will keep posting if anything new comes about. Precious seems fine, I was hoping putting her outside in her cage she would call for him but she is sleeping like a baby. Just Not Skinny

Mojo Day 6

So today we did the usual, we got the little boogers out Just before TKD and held them for a little while. We try to let them get their sleep during the day because they are nocturnal. We prepared the pouch for each of them and trucked off to TKD. Today one of the moms that wanted to see them yesterday wanted to show her Grandson so I took Mojo out and he started to poop and pee on me. Normally I wouldn't worry about that but it was about to run into the scratches on my hand as shown in this picture. Yes my suggies tore my hand up because of their long nails.

When I got home I took Mojo out and held him in the Mendenhall and he fell a sleep. I noticed that he opens his mouth and kind of pants a little, I was a bit concerned but when I offered him a drink he refused. I offered him a treat and again he refused. I am not sure why he does this.

Luka had Precious and she played with her in her shirt for a while and then she fell asleep in her shirt. I had Luka come over and take pictures of Mojo sleeping but he woke. I am uploading the photos to my Google+ account hopefully everyone can view them.

The Day is not over yet but here goes the post

Just Not Skinny

Mojo day 5

OK so today was a good day, I played with the suggies early this morning though I did not de-poop them so they decided to let me have it. Both of them played well together while climbing on my shirt. I put Precious back in the cage and held Mojo for a little while in the Mendenhall he did good, but was not about to go to sleep for me. After about an hour I put him back in his cage.

About 5pm I took Mojo out of the cage and held him in the Mendenhall for a little while then I let him crawl around my Laptop while I downloaded and installed the new Mac OS X Lion. Occasionally I would have to reset him because he would try to run off too far. At 5:45 I put him in my shirt pocket and Luka took Precious out and put her in her pouch that Luka had prepared for her. I put Mojo in his pouch that Luka prepared for him as well. Luka usually Puts an 1/8th of an apple with their Glid-a-mins on them and a couple pellets of food. We took the two suggies off to TaeKwonDo (TKD) and this time Mojo didn't make a peep until I started to show a little girl what he looked like through the mesh of his pouch, then he started to crab. It was way too loud in the building for anyone to hear the crabbing though. After TKD Luka started showing the little girl what precious looks like with the pouch open and when she did a couple of people saw and their curiosity got the better of them. So after a few of the moms seeing Precious I had gone outside the building to get some fresh air and wait for the kids to come out so we could go home and get din din. One of the ladies who saw Precious wanted to show someone else what a sugar bear looks like so I took Mojo out and let them see and pet him. He behaved nicely and did not seem afraid at all.

When I got home from TKD I put Mojo in my Pocket and started making dinner, he stayed there and slept the whole time. After dinner Luka needed help setting up one of those little ghetto pools (Anyone from Griswold Heights knows what I'm talking about). So with Mojo sleeping in my pocket I gave her the help she needed. He stayed in there for some time, until I decided to take a shower for the night. I put him in his cage and took a shower and felt good about it. When I got out of the shower Mojo was wandering around the cage eating the little metal clips that hold the cage together. I put my hand in his cage to see if he would climb on it and he just nonchalantly comes up and starts to bite my hand, and if I leave my hand in there he just comes after it following it as if it is the best tasting thing ever. I am not sure why he bites me like that, because its not a threatening bite, it's more of a 'Are you a treat?' bite. But I swear I am not a treat. I did not take him out because his nails are quite sharp and when he gets them in you they itch for a while afterwards and since I just showered I didn't want to be itchy.

Anywho, I am going to call this blog finished.

Just Not Skinny

Mojo day 4

Ok so today I didn't get to blog, but I'm gonna try to recap.

I am writing this from my iPhone so there is likely going to be some typos.

Ok so this morning my cousin Danielle stopped by to see Precious and Mojo. I'd like to think she came to say good bye to me too, because she is leaving for Italy in a week.

Mojo was crabbing because all the noise Danni and Luka was making so I took him out and played with him. Because Mojo isn't bonded yet we don't let anyone hold him. Danni stayed quite a while (mostly because I talked her ear off, and wouldn't let her leave) so she was able to get some time with Precious.

Tonight we took Precious and Mojo with us to Teakwondo. I had Mojo in his bonding pouch and Luka had Precious in hers. Mojo started crabbing, I thought for sure I'd get kicked out so I pressed my hand on him to comfort him. Joie, our neighbor and friend sitting next to us said if I'm not careful someone might come over and ask if I need something to eat (inferring that the crabbing noise sounds like my stomach was hungry). After that we put the babies back until later when I talked Luka into holding Mojo. Using the Mendenhall she was able to get him to sleep. After a little while of him sleeping and me playing with Precious we put them back and went to bed.

Just Not Skinny

Mojo Day 3

Side Note: for those who do not know what a Sugar Glider is, it is a Marsupial which is not the same as a flying squirrel. The fall in to the same family as the koala bear or Kangaroo. Because they are not rodents they have a good chance at getting along with your dog or cat. One of the biggest issues for beginners and Sugar Gliders is that most people see them as so cute, that they do not realize that it takes a lot of work to get these sugar gliders to bond. Sometimes it can take months, and I have heard it can take up to a year for your sugar bear to bond with you. Which is why I am writing this blog, to have a record of my bonding with Mojo. With Precious it is an ongoing bonding and I will write about her as well though this blog is mostly about the bonding between my family and our new Sugar bear Mojo.

5:58 AM Mojo is out running around the cage, Precious is in hammock. I pulled Precious out so I can see her and handed her a piece of her pellet. She grabbed the pellet and ate it. I always like to see that she is eating. One good sign that she is eating right is the way her poop comes out, so I take them out and de-poop them, which just consist of holding them over a napkin. Each day Mojo has only had to poop a small amount, but since it has only been about 48 hours i'm not gonna worry to much.

I handed Mojo a piece of pellet and he ate one, but then he just began to seek out my fingers to bite them. He has lost his initial fear of my fingers. I picked him up and put him in the Mendenhall, and he really doesn't like me right, now but he is adorable so blah.

So today I went to HVCC and registered for the the Fall semester, and afterward I painted my sons room so there was no Suggie love today. I am too tired so they get to have their time together tonight.

Just Not Skinny

Mojo Day 2

Woke up this morning (read afternoon) and went to grab Mojo from the cage but I had Precious who is tame, My son went in to get Precious (you know the one I had) and got attacked. It was a funny mistake.

I took Mojo out and held him for about an hour, he did fuss and fight while I tried to get him in the Mendenhall but once I got him in the grip he did go to sleep but was woken every time I typed something on the computer. Luella had Precious out so I grabbed her and brought her close to Mojo and he flipped out, she made a little hissing noise that seemed as if she was telling him something. It was actually amusing. She made the same noise when I put my hand in the cage and Mojo stood up like he was going to attack me, I am not sure if she was warning him or if she was just telling him it was ok because he sat down and kind of just watched me.

I tried once again to give him a fruit snack but he wanted nothing to do with it. I am a bit worried that he will not eat the pellets that we use for our Precious. The pet store we got Mojo from recommends meal worms for food and 'PP' does not. 'PP' uses (and so do we) a pellet and glide - a - min (vitamin) for their suggies. One of the reasons 'PP' does not recommend feeding them meal worms and crickets is because it causes them to have an odor. I can tell the difference between Precious odor (Puppy like) and Mojo's (Guinea Pig like) I can only assume 'PP' is correct. So I am worried that he won't eat the pellets. He did eat the apple we put in with the glid -a- mins so he is getting some fluids and vitamins but hopefully he will get the hang of the pellets.

After putting him back in the cage, he explored it some more, drank some water and he ate one of the fruit snacks I put in there. Then he went up in the hammock with Precious and went to sleep. They have slept most of the day, since I was painting a bedroom and wasn't bugging them. Around 10pm I took Mojo out and played with him on my bed. He bit me while I had him on my palm but if I put him on the back of my hand he didn't bite me. His bites aren't quite as hard as Precious'. He didn't crab as much, but he did bite when he got the chance, almost as if he wanted to see what I would do if he bit me. Every time he bit me I would say 'NO' in a firm voice and he would look at me as if to say hey don't yell at me I was just tasting you and you are delicious. I think I will leave them alone tonight and let them get into some sort of routine. Maybe he will eat tonight, if not I may have to get meal worms and I really do not want to do that. Just Not Skinny

Mojo Day 1

Today July 17, 2011,

We received an email from Adam at Pocket Pets ('PP') stating that they ('PP') were going to be in our area today until Monday. So we decided to go and bring our Precious to meet them and so they could meet our little girl. We learned a lot from them, specifically how we could hold her better to get better bonded with her. Then we decided to go to a local pet store to get a sand pad for Precious' wheel, and we ended up purchasing a baby boy sugar bear. Now I have a loyalty to 'PP' because they have been really good to us, however we decided to purchase the sugar bear from the pet store because we wanted a male so that maybe one day we could have babies. 'PP' neuters there males. Also the only reason we purchased the sand pad is because 'PP' were on back order for their Wheels when we needed them and the one we have does not look like it will work with their pads. But I promise 'PP' I will be a better customer. If it makes you feel any better, the pet store does not approve of the way 'PP' raises their pets, but we are raising both our suggies the way 'PP' prescribes. Hopefully our new one (Mojo) will be okay eating the pellets.

So now we have a male Sugar Bear which we named Mojo and the first thing when we got home Luka Cleaned out the cage and freshened up the food, and even added a treat for each of the suggies and played with Precious while I had Mojo in his bonding pouch, and cooked dinner. I threw in an 1/8 of an apple in the pouch as recommended by 'PP', because the pet store did not do it when we purchased him. After dinner I pulled Mojo out of his pouch and began holding him in the bonding grip that 'PP' had taught us in the Mall today (See Rewind - Precious a Little History). He was actually tame(r) than Precious when we first got her. According to the pet store Mojo is 14 weeks out of pouch, and I know that 'PP' says that they should be between 8 and 12 weeks out of pouch for bonding but we decided to take a chance and see if we can bond with Mojo. When I held Mojo in the Mendenhall (Bonding Grip) he would just sit there and even seemed like he was going to sleep. But if I loosened at all he took whatever chance he had to get free even if it meant biting. And... He did bite, a few times, though he never broke the skin as Precious has before. I had to be especially careful with Mojo because he liked to try to jump out of my hand, and he is quick. Luckily though he never was able to escape the grasp of my menacing hands ha ha ha (in my most evil voice). Shortly after I held him for a little while I tried to give him some papaya treats to see if he was hungry, he was not. So we put Precious and Mojo in the freshly cleaned cage with fresh food, and we mixed the water with some orange Gatorade because we know Precious likes it and we thought maybe if he taste it we won't have to worry about him dehydrating.

In the cage Precious went up to her Hammock and he went to the bottom and just made noises at me hissing and growling and telling me he doesn't want me near but I went in anyway. I pulled Precious out and put her near him on the bottom of the cage, she was curious and went over to smell him but he did his big bear act and scared her away. So I let them be and she went and played for a little while and then went into her hammock to sleep. He started to explore and found his apple and shortly after her apple with Glid-a-mins (check spelling later) on them. He climbed on top of her and she didn't move. Then he found the glider chow and while smelling it and exploring it (He didn't eat any though) she came out to smell him but nothing transpired she went back to her Hammock. He continued to explore and eventually he went under a shirt on the bottom of the cage over a heat rock we had in there as prescribed by 'PP'. The heat rock was not on though because this place is like 88˚F in here.

Here I am at 3:05 typing this out so I can start Day 2 when I wake up and Precious came out and went to her wheel she sat in there for an hour. My lights went off as they usually do and Precious came out of her wheel and went down to smell where Mojo is lying. I turned the lights on so I could see and shortly after she went back in her wheel where she sits as if no one can get her. I turned the lights down again to see if she would go near Mojo again. I am a little worried they won't get along but I am hopeful.

Ok She did not go near Mojo and she is still sitting in her wheel, I am going to close this up and Go to bed.

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