Taking Care of the Neighbors' Pets

Our neighbors recently asked if we'd feed their pets

while they were on vacation!

Of course, I said YES right away!

How hard could that be? 
Right???

This one loved us -- I think!  It was always out when we were there!

Later, I found out -- their pets consist of one hamster 

and two sugar gliders!

The hamster was so well-behaved.  We gave her some food

every day with a big piece of kale and she was a happy little camper.

The sugar gliders were something else!

They were well-behaved for sugar gliders, but seriously,

they freaked me out!

See her peaking out of the sleeping pouch!

They are nocturnal and in the marsupial family.

Basically, they look like small flying rodents!

Like Jimmy Johns, they move freaky fast!

We thought since they were nocturnal, they'd stay in their

sleeping pouch all day, we'd put the food in the bowls and

it would be easy-peasy!

But . . . 

one was super active and was awake and moving flying around

every time we stopped in!

It scared the living daylights out of me a couple times! EEEK!!!

We were able to get the food bowls out, but then the little critter

was flying all round super fast and I was afraid it would get out
when we opened the cage to put the food bowls back in.

Maddie did much better than me with getting the bowls back

into the cage!

One day, I waited an hour for the critter to calm down and head

back into its sleeping pouch before I was brave enough

to put the food bowls back in the cage.

You can bet we were so happy when our neighbors returned

from vacation. 
Truthfully, I was counting down the days and 

since they went to Alaska, it was a 9 day vacay!

Lesson learned -- maybe not be quite so fast to say yes!