Meet Miss Pip
I love my little girl, but she's very messy and throws food everywhere! This is characteristic of a sugar glider and, yes, I knew this before I bought her. I put a cloth over the carpet below her cage and hung a sheet behind her cage on the wall. I thought that would keep most of the messiness under control. It didn't. On Monday, since I had the day off, I did a thorough cleaning of her cage (which I do every couple of weeks or so) and decided to clean all around her. I spent over an hour cleaning dried up food off of my husband's TV, stereo, the Wii, my desk, etc. I realize she's not in an ideal location being in the living room, but with our living arrangement, there's not much other place to put her. The bathroom would be ideal, except that there's no window in there and it is crucial for sugar gliders to have daylight cycles. When we get a bigger place, she will have a home in a spare room/office.
Anyway, the point of this post was to introduce the (hopeful) solution. The Glider Kitchen. I did not come up with this idea, but read about it online and I'm hoping it will help. All I did was take a little plastic storage tub from Wal-Mart ($1.50) that's about the size of a shoebox and cut a hole in it. Then I put it inside her cage, and put her food bowls underneath it each night. Now all I have to do is wait a week or so and see if the messiness is contained. Hopefully she will be throwing her food at the plastic storage container instead of our TV. It should work unless she decides to bring the food out of the "kitchen" and still throw it.
Here's her cage with the sheet on the wall and the cloth underneath
And here is an up-close picture of the Glider Kitchen!
Duty calls at work. Thanks for reading!
