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Posted: **Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:34 am**

so i am getting to ready find a new Aptartment and had a few glider related questions.

the first is is about a glider room. i've seen quite a few talk about these and i am seriously considering it myself. The one thing that is not clear to me right now is with a glider room do they still need to be caged? and i would let them out at night to play? or can they be free to use the room when they like? should i leave the cage door open so that they can go in and out as they please?

and the other one is the whole fact that i am moving. should i do anything special for them in the process? all of their things will be coming with, no new unscented items, other than the new Aptartment.

Posted: **Thu May 27, 2010 12:32 pm**

Hi
We too decided to give our gliders the run of a room, our bedroom

. It seems that our sleeping bodies make the best toys possible. Of course in glider proofing our own bedroom it meant removing almost everthing from it. It also requires a quick cleaning session every morning because I really don't want to set my coffee cup down on a nightstand among the pee and poopies. It's not a big deal, it takes us about ten minutes. I run around with disinfectant and do the surfaces while my husband uses a hand broom and dustpan to get any poopies out of the carpet. Our gliders have been living in our bedroom for 6 months or more and seem to be happy and healthy.

There is quite a bit of information on the Internet about glider proofing a room and for the most part common sense will tell you what needs to be done. I've put draft guards on the doors so they can't sneak out of the room or into the bathroom. Remember what a danger a toilet is to a glider as well as electrical outlets. I've also used metal cage mesh and stapled it around the bottom of any furniture so they can't get up into the box spring or into drawers of the dresser.

We've left their cage in the room with the doors clipped open so they can go in and out as they please. This way they have easy access to their exercise wheels and water bottles and one more place to play. I have two water bottles, side by side, one points in and one points to the outside of the cage. Occasionally we'll find them inside the cage in a sleeping pouch in the morning but normally they sleep either on a shelf in a curio cabinet or linen closet. Both of these things I've emptied other than piles of polar fleece fabric for them to burrow into. Polar fleece is the fabric that the pouches are made of so I assume that is the safest for them. You can get an entire bolt of cheap polar fleece from the fabric store for $20. I also made roll up shades for the windows using polar fleece, they love to climb and run on these. We have two tall cabinets on the same wall that are about 8 ft apart and I got a closet dowel to stretch between the two. the pole rests on top of each cabinet. This pole has polar fleece hanging from it down to the floor. It's another good climbing area and the love just running across the pole. Irene no longer uses her exercise wheel much, she gets her exercise on the hanging fabric in the room. It's also a fun game, she gets on it between the fabric and the wall and I run my fingers around on the other side of the fabric with her chasing and grabbing.

It takes awhile to put their food out at night because in addition to the food dishes in their cage we leave bits of chicken or beef, vegetables and fruit all over the room for them to forage during the night. It doesn't take long for them to learn your hiding places. Our little piggy runs around to each of ten places to sntach up her favorites before her buddy even has his eyes fully open.

I hope something I've said has been helpful

Kim

kimk205542010-05-27 13:34:32

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