Mine likes to play with plain old plastic straws and cups. Set the cup on the table with the straw in it and she'll keep comming back. She likes to pull the straw out, look at it, then put it back in! We found this out completely by accident!
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#27881 10/23/0404:20 AM10/23/0404:20 AM
Mine are big fans of CalleJean's hanging toys (www.callejean.com). Their favorites are the ones with chunks of wood for them to chew on and bells (with which they can wake up mom in the middle of the night <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evil.gif" alt="" />).
New discovery! At Walmart, you can buy these single silk flower buds with allegator clips on the back. I've got 'em clipped everywhere now and Monster likes to weave in and out of the petals! Very fun to watch!
Oh man, there is this thing made for birds called "pick a peanut" or something. It looks like a giant peanut hanging from a chain and it has "treat holes". Meeko loves trying to get his mealies from inside! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I found it at Petco.
Mine are huge fans of the feathers & straws also, but the biggest joy of all is ANYthing with bells...if it jingles, they go NUTS! I'll have to look for the "pick a peanut" thing...that sounds like it could be fun!
peace~carolyn
"Your mind is the birthplace of ingenuity and then you need your heart as the Mediator..." ~Lil C
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#27887 10/24/0404:35 AM10/24/0404:35 AM
[:"magenta"]one word of caution about the feathers. if your gliders try to eat/chew them, they could choke.
taylynn, those peanut picker things sound a bit like the foraging units available at www.sugaraesattic.com
gina, could you please post a pic of what toy you are referring to? it sounds like fun, but i have no clue what you mean. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nixweiss.gif" alt="" />
hey, i just thought of another cool toy...a baby-safe mirror! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/multi.gif" alt="" /> we had somebody on here (cannot remember who) who let their gliders have a mirror, and they went crazy for it! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif" alt="" /> [/]
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#27888 10/25/0410:02 AM10/25/0410:02 AM
I wish I couls post a picture but every time I try to install my camera software, my computer freezes up for like 4 hours! it's time for an an upgrade, but we just can't afford one right now! The flowers are in the craft section oif Walmart and sell individually on a card there are open mums or roses with one or two leaves behind the bud, then a little clip where the stem would be, so you can clip it to anything, they're 97 cents. Also, I made Monster a corner hammock last night and filled it with feathers and sparkly balls & she went NUTS! Thanks for the tips guys!
One of my gliders is obsessed with dominoes. If we are playing dominoes, Lilly will hop on the table and pick them up one by one. She picks it up, looks it all over examining it (and possibly attacking it- like crazy biting) and then tosses it over the side of the table looking over the table enge to see where it landed.
All my gliders LOVE knocking stuff off of things and looking down. it's hilarious. I put lost of lizards, plastic jax, and things in thier cages so they can throw them and carry around.
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#27891 11/02/0411:24 AM11/02/0411:24 AM
Peo's favorite is this little purple ring. Every night I hang it up somewhere on his cage and every day i look in his pouch, he's got it in there sleeping with it
I hit the thrift store today & bought up everything that looked like it might be even remotely amusing! We're going to have a few days of testing & I'll post pics of the top 3! Or 5..whatever I feel like!
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#27894 11/04/0411:08 AM11/04/0411:08 AM
okay my gliders keep stealing my ear plugs. as soon as they walk by one they look completely insane and attack them and then run off with them and i have to chase them down to retreive them... wierdos
LOL...it was my Stitch that went crazy over mirrors...he also loves ribbons which he steals then carries with his tail...but he won't let me get a pic of this as of yet...Lilo loves the Atomic Duck which she hangs from and spins round and round teasing Stitch because he is too chubby to hold onto it...and if you look at the attachment pic of my cage you will notice the blue rope strung back and forth cobweb style in the bottom right corner of their cage...this is a jump rope one of my kids had that I tied in their cage...they jump on it and hang from it...playing on it for 20 or 30 minutes a night...it has just enough spring left to it that they bounce around like kids on a mini trampoline...We also discovered they love cast off baby toys (well washed of course)...we change them out weekly so they have something new to discover because like any small child they love to be surprised with new toys...
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#27896 11/09/0412:37 AM11/09/0412:37 AM
My gliders love to play with shoelaces (for out of cage time, so I can supervise them) and toothbrushes (go figure lol) Sometimes they like jingly/crinkly balls to chase.
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#27897 11/09/0401:44 AM11/09/0401:44 AM
Well, I did the test, and here's a pic of the favorite (by far). I don't know if you can find one just like it, but you may be able to find something similar!
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#27898 11/09/0409:41 AM11/09/0409:41 AM