Yaaayyyy.. I’m so happy! I have a new friend now at home. A female sugar glider named Alvina Kioko Salasika Nafisa, but we usually call her Kio for short. She’s about 8 weeks old now and she’s the cutest thing I’ve ever seen, after my little brother Abi. :D
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| Kio |
Many people shocked to found that Kio has a very long name. :D Actually it was a name given by Ka Igor, my partner in crime at the studio. I had plan to pet a couple of sugar glider since about months ago. I even prepared names for them. Charlotte for a female sugar glider and Sherlock for a male sugar glider. But days before I got Kio, I just found out that Ka Igor’s mum’s name is Charlotte! How would I supposed to know that? I know he wouldn’t mind if I named Kio Charlotte, but still, it would be very awkward, right?
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| Kio dozed off in my Right palm.. :D |
So, I decided to named Kio Sherlock. But then it just sounded so male. She deserved better name I know. Then I talked to Ka Igor, surprisingly he has so many alternatives. From Alvina which means a good friend, Kioko that means happiness, Salasika means a brave lady and Nafisa means hope. The names coming from many languages across the nations such as Ibrani, Japanese, Sanskrit and African respectively. All of them were beautiful I love them. I couldn’t make up my mind so I chose them all. :D (Don’t judge me, I’m a Libra :D) ka igor loves it too. He said when he saw Kio and me he was seeing hope. (That was a smooth line for saying I was hopeless, lol. Thanks ka igoor..-___- :D)
You can arrange them and translate them by yourself.
It was said that it’s better to pet baby sugar glider rather than the teenage or even adult sugar glider. Because a baby sugar glider or we can call it as a joey was more easily taken care of and more easy to bonded to a new owner. I was looking and searching in every pet shop I know at town, none of them has joey sugar glider.
Then I met this seller at Internet which fortunately in the same town with me. I was waiting for about a month before my joey came. And I was planing to get a male sugar glider first since many people said female sugar glider was very active. But the male joey was sick and dead like two days before I took him from the breeder. L
It was so fun to have Kio around. Everyone just love her. She’s so adorable, no once can resist her charm even my grandmother! :D
So, wrap it up, Kio is very much welcomed in our family! Both my family at home and at Kisi. Ka igor, febri, ka joe, mumut, ka akbar.. they love Kio! Sometimes I took her to the studio to be my companion when I have to announced alone. But I didn’t do it very much now. Cause Kio hates cold and the studio is very cold! She loves to snuggle in my body looking for heat. And yeaaa.. climbing up and down playing.. :D
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| Kio's first body climbing.. :D |
And now I have a new hobby, watching Kio! Her behaviour is very new to me. On the first couples days, Kio crabbing a lot. It said that it was her act of defence against anything scare her. But she’s not crabbing anymore now. Not when I’m around.
She hates ants. She wouldn’t come and eat if she found ants on her meal plate. So I usually fed her with my point finger in the morning and at night. She loves to hold my finger with her two little hands when I fed her. And she even gave curious bites sometimes. Lol. You know that kind of bite, right? A bite that didn’t intend to hurt just her way of try to figure out the thing that always bring her food. Lol.
