Posted By: TwoDog
Strage Sleep Hours - 01/15/16 03:35 PM
Hey all!
So...Harley and Gizmo are making progress...I think.
But one think I have noticed in trying to adapt my schedule to give them more time--is that they seem to stay up really LATE compared to other gliders that I have read about here.
Maybe someone could critique my routine?
I get home about 6pm...make dinner and put it in the cage for them. (It won't be touched for a while, but I like to get it made and get it in there first thing.)
I then say hi to them and perhaps try to feed them a sleepy meal worm in their pouch.
Then I take the pouch and wear it under my shirt, petting them through the pouch and doing things around the house. After that I recline the recliner back and try to take a 30 min or 1 hour nap with them in the pouch on my chest. They usually sleep through all this--at least there's no movement or sound coming out of the pouch.
I keep the pouch on me until about 9:30, at which point I put them back in the cage and leave them for a bit so they can start eating.
After that, I go back into the living room, and leave them for a while.
This is where things start going south on me.
I come back in at 10, 11, 12...and try to interact with them. But they are sluggish and sleepy--and they want to stay in the pouch. :-(
But then from about 4am to 7am they are bouncing off the walls.
I open the cage and they come out and jump all over me.
I had to break away from them this morning to go to work.
Thought I was giving them plenty of sleep time--I don't know if they were on this schedule from their previous home or what.
Am I doing something wrong here?
Thanks
Dave
So...Harley and Gizmo are making progress...I think.
But one think I have noticed in trying to adapt my schedule to give them more time--is that they seem to stay up really LATE compared to other gliders that I have read about here.
Maybe someone could critique my routine?
I get home about 6pm...make dinner and put it in the cage for them. (It won't be touched for a while, but I like to get it made and get it in there first thing.)
I then say hi to them and perhaps try to feed them a sleepy meal worm in their pouch.
Then I take the pouch and wear it under my shirt, petting them through the pouch and doing things around the house. After that I recline the recliner back and try to take a 30 min or 1 hour nap with them in the pouch on my chest. They usually sleep through all this--at least there's no movement or sound coming out of the pouch.
I keep the pouch on me until about 9:30, at which point I put them back in the cage and leave them for a bit so they can start eating.
After that, I go back into the living room, and leave them for a while.
This is where things start going south on me.
I come back in at 10, 11, 12...and try to interact with them. But they are sluggish and sleepy--and they want to stay in the pouch. :-(
But then from about 4am to 7am they are bouncing off the walls.
I open the cage and they come out and jump all over me.
I had to break away from them this morning to go to work.
Thought I was giving them plenty of sleep time--I don't know if they were on this schedule from their previous home or what.
Am I doing something wrong here?
Thanks
Dave