Time to start looking for those cake covers at rummage sales and thrift shops and start drilling holes in 'em and keep our walls clean!! I just bought a new house and I would love to keep our walls free of BML.

Thanks, BMXGirl, for sharing this most brilliant idea! Do the gliders really use the second hole to get in or would one hole be enough?


Jennifer

Thanks Guys!

I suppose one hole would be sufficient .... the reason I chose to do two is because I have two gliders that use it, there would is two ways out in case one is blocking one doorway... that way the other has a way out without disturbing the other. And in case they get irritated with each other for some reason, theres a couple ways out, etc...

thanks again for the idea!! i made that food hut out of the cake cover & it works great!! we can even see them because the cover is almost clear. great idea! hey by the way, bmxgirl, do you or do you know someone that rides bmx? just thought i'd ask.

Thanks! Im glad its working for you too! Cool!

Yes I do know some that ride...
My Husband and I both ride... we are more interested in dirt jumps. (theres a pic here , and my valve stem covers all the guys giggle about...lol.) A few of the members here have seen our bikes hanging from the ceiling.
I havent been on a ride in a awhile... been too cold out. I injured myself a couple summers ago... dislocated my hip and got road rash down one leg. Since then when its cold my hip hurts. Im not about to do that again. Ive eaten dirt several times, but that was the worst! Very painful! (and I even rode my bike back to the car that was 5-6 miles away after I hurt myself... I was too embarrassed to call an ambulance and I was afraid of what would happen to my bike, I knew they couldnt strap it to the ambulance... so I rode it back to my car... then cried and took care of it... ) My bike of choice is Redline, I bought my Daughter one like mine, except without all the extras... those will come as she gets older. Hubby rides vintage GT.

Ive slowed down now that Im getting older....stuff hurts alot worse!

Thank you so much for the GREAT idea!!! I didn't realize what a messy eater Oscar was, until the first night he ate in his new dining room. We had to use a rectangular container, the round wouldn't go through the door. Thanks again!!

I made 4 last night. One for each cage and a spare for when I get my new kids from Judie and Sheila They work GREAT

Thank you!

Thats great you guys!!! Im so glad you found it useful as well!!!

Ooooh Cyndiekb, Congratulations on the new upcomming additions from Judie and Sheila!!!

Hope, I gotta hand it to ya...You're a genius!

We made a Glider Kitchen a couple of nights ago...works awesome! No more BML on the wall! We're gonna have to make another one for Pepper and Abby. We used a rectangular container as well...the kind you can find at the dollar store with the white lid...We just drilled a hole on either end and turned it up-side-down...it works great and fits perfect on one of the shelves in the boys' cage. Thanks again for the awesome idea!

Man! I love GliderCentral!

Hope, you have to be a) a glider's best friend, b) a glider OWNER'S best friend, and c) the most creative person I've ever known. You've saved countless walls from ultimate destruction.

LOL!!! I think that it is d) all of the above!!!

Those pictures are hysterical! Great idea.

Thanks you guys!

LOL...Lucy, your so silly ... I dont know about all that... I just chalk it up to being a little nuts at times, and obsessed with these little guys. Its bad, I cant go ANYWHERE without looking for potential Glider goodies. (Hubby laughs cause I cant even go to the auto parts store without scoping out all the stuff.

Im glad the Gliders Kitchen works for some of you... thats wonderful! Most the Gliders Ive seen that have tried it, it at least gives them a 'safe' place to eat... some seem to be more comfortable eating in an enclosed area away from prying eyes...lol. I know alot of the Glider mess too comes from them sitting at the plate/bowl and picking stuff up and flinging it if they dont like it, or shaking junk off their little hands. Mine works well for me. At times I still get a little bit of a mess, but Im happier with a little mess.

Thank you again...

Hope, did you say that you put yours on the floor of their cage? I'm going to buy one today but do not have shelves in my cage, I do however have a very sturdy one. Any suggestions on where to place it? My gliders refuse to eat off the floor of their cage, they are silly.

I use something similar to Hope's idea. I started out using those large ice cream containers with a door knob hole cut into it. Then I started using the same thing as I use for my nest boxes. They're storage containers with lids and a handle. Joel nicknamed them "BML Diners". Anyway, I put them on the floor of the cage and they don't seem to mind eating from there. For the cage that I bought at the bird show, I made a shelf out of closet shelving and that's where I put the "diner". Maybe you could make a shelf like that if yours refuse to eat on the floor of the cage.

Hi

Yes, my 'kidos' eat their meal from the floor... always have. I used to keep their food dishes underneath a hammock so that they wouldnt get over it and potty in their plates... that worked for awhile until they started moving the plates around...lol. (not to mention the MESS!)
Ive found early on, with feeding mine low in the cage, they dont make as much of a mess on walls and such... instead, most of it ends up in/around the bottom. With the glider kitchen, I dont get hardly any mess at all now. (Woo-hoo!!! cause that stuff sure can be like cement once its dried to a wall...lol. )
If youd like to feed them on a shelf... maybe you might try the suggestion above if possible... or check out hardware stores, and bath/shower sections in stores...sometimes you can find some good ideas for shelving there. ::) (if you try to feed them on the cage floor...more than likely they will get used to it and learn thats where the food will be.)
Good luck with it!

Maybe I will try the slow transition to the bottom of the cage, if that doesn't work then I will need some help, hopefully from you Rischa since you and I have the same cage. i'm not too crafty. Thanks for the info this is an excellent Idea and i'm going to give it a shot this weekend.

Thanks for sharing!!!

Great Idea hope, luckily for now my glider doesn't fingerpaint on my walls, but i'm sure i'll have it coming.

Hey, thats a great idea.

tahts a perfect idea, no more messes on cage bars, toys, wheel, wall, leaves, pouches, and everything else!!! You're a genius, BMXGirl!!

Emphasis on GENIUS please...


She's Greta!!

greta? i thought her name was hope! sorry alyssa, i couldn't resist.

Hi, I just got my new glider,Trinket.I loved the idea of the kitchen so I made one for her cage. At All A DOLLAR I got a clear frosted oblong food saver,8 inches long, with a solid blue lid. I had my neighbor put a hole in one end, like for a door knob. Then using the blue lid for the
kitchen floor I put a piece of velcro on a ceramic coaster(food dish) and one on the lid,so Trinket couldn't move it. After I put her food in her dish for the night,I snap the food saver(that has the hole in one end) on top of the blue lid and place it in her cage.She loves it and in the morning I'm always finding toys she has dragged inside her kitchen.This is such a GREAT idea! Thanks for sharing. Some of my friends with multi gliders say they couldn't get along without it(no mess!)

Oh Thank You Mary Ellen!
Im so glad its been helpful to you!
Awww, little Trinket (adorable name!) sounds like such a cutie!
(Dragging toys in her kitchen...hehe! Silly girly... how cute!)
Oh and I have to tell ya... Welcome to GC!


Im so glad this has been helpful to some! Thats exactly what I was hoping for when I posted!

Now if somebody will tell me how to attach that to my cage I will be in hog heaven!

DOWN COMES THE TOWEL OFF THE WALL!!!

I'm new and about a month behind in time but for any other new people out there. I went to local dollar tree and they had these undershelf shelves (slip over shelf above to make hanging shelf) and I got one of those plastic shoe boxes. Use the shelf on bars of cage and put shoebox in it - now there was about 2 inch between the cage and the shoebox. What I did was take a short piece of hamster tubing with square put on end (from a hamster playground set) drilled hole as mentioned and use the tube as the go between with no danger of them getting out!

i made my kitchens out of old plastic tubs with lids, like ice cream/sherbet comes in. one word of caution, tho. when making the holes for "doors," do NOT stab the plastic tub with the scissors. i did that, and was sorry i did.

Wow I can't wait to try this out. sounds like a lifesaver!

wow this does sound awesome lol my walls are a mess...the manage to get food all the way to my bed which is on the other side of the room lol darn food fights....well it looks like imma have to make a trip to the dollar store!

don't own a cake pan but this sounds awesome. One question, do the parts lock tightly together?? If so do you think it would be possible to hang the bottom from the top of the cage and then put the food into the top and lock it on? That way they would still be up high. Or would it not hold that much weight?? Just curious.

My suggestion if you go with hanging it from the top use an ice cream bucket. That way you already have a handle to hang it with, and it would probably be able to handle the weight. Its basically the same concept and comes with a lid. Plus you get the added bonus of an excuse to eat ice cream. ^_^