This is Marble. My first glider ever. I really thought he would be with me for many more years. Marble suffered an injury which should be considered as accidental. His mate bit him in the face probably while Marble was trying to squeeze a little romantic time. The bite punctured his eye and damaged his nose. I was away on a business trip and found him injured. My wife does a good job feeding them daily, but that's about the extend of her love for MY gliders. My guess was that the injury was three days old when I found it. Within minutes of arriving from the airport and noticing, I was on my way to the vet. The injury caused an infection and after a long 7 day battle with antibiotics, anti-inflammatory, vitamins and hand feeding, Marble turned for the worst and developed pneumonia. It was downhill from there. After 3 more days and consecutive daily vet visits, Marble was not responding to treatment and had to be placed to sleep. Even at this stage, Marble was trying to recover but his body was not responding. It was and is heartbreaking. Marble and I were a team. I did favor him from all my other gliders. In fact, I heavily favored him and that's the bottom line. Why not? He was my first and for one solid year, my only glider. His pictures have been published in book in France, Canada and in regional publications, website and even in a trading cards company. Every income generated from the sale of his pictures and even the sale of his Joeys went to some kind of non-profit fund for the care of gliders or pets in general. While healthy, Marble went to the vet regularly and my vet always made remarks on how big, fat and healthy he looked. he stopped gliding and began "rolling" as he got bigger and stronger. My little pig!
This is my tribute to my hero. He was laid to rest in my yard right behind the wall from my bedroom directly behind my side of the bed. Yup, that's right...my love for this little rascal is obsessive. I miss him every day, evening, feeding time, cage cleaning time and just about every time his name is mentioned, at least one tear is in his name.

I miss you Marble. I trully miss you.