Sugar glider questions?

Question

Well i was thinking about a sugar glider.

But before i buy a pet i ALWAYS find out as much as i can about them.

I have pets throughout my life and love them all-care is most important to me.
I also have room for a certain size of cage and that so heres my questions.


1. what do sugar gliders eat and how much do they need every day.

2.how big are there cages and what do they need in them.

3.are they messy creatures(smelly and that-do they need speical bedding or what.

4.i heard there really friendly and love to bond and have attenion--thats not a probelm---if that true that there that clingy.

5.do they hibernant in winter.

is there anything else i should know about them.


proper answers only please.

I looked at google but rather get people with them telling me straight.

10 points best answer

Answer 1

I had a sugar glider but he tried to cross the road and got ran over.

Answer 2

1. They will eat a mixture of meat, chopped fruits and veggies, yogurt, and live insects each day.

2. Usually 3-4 feet tall and at least 2 feet by 2 feet square is the minimum. Bigger is always better, and a large aviary is best. They should have branches, toys, a solid exercise wheel, a sleeping pouch or nesting box, food and water.

3. If they aren't cleaned daily, they smell. Males have a pungent odor whether the cage is kept clean or not. They will urine mark inside and outside of their cage and their urine has a strong odor.

4. No. They will nestle into a pouch against your body but most are NOT cuddly or affectionate and do not crave attention from you. You will be seen largely as a launchpad to jump onto and off of. Many are biters, even if handled regularly from an early age. Bites can be severe enough to require stitches, their teeth can peel bark from trees in the wild.

5. No. They are native to tropical areas and do not hibernate. It is very important to keep them at an appropriate temperature.



Other tidbits: Very noisy at night, jumping, crabbing, and generally making a nuisance of themselves. Will not want to interact with you during daylight hours, they will be asleep and cranky when woken. Must keep more than one. They are social and need the company of their own kind.

Make sure you have an exotics vet nearby before you get a pair or more. They have unique and unusual health needs, and most normal vets are unwilling to treat them. Even if they will treat them, they don't have the experience with the species necessary to do it properly and your pet will suffer for it. Their vet care will also be extremely expensive.

They live on average about 15 years in captivity, so think very very carefully before bringing one home. Most people abandon, rehome, or surrender to a shelter within a year. They are not suitable pets for your average home, and most people are not happy with them once they experience them as pets.

Answer 3

1. NEVER feed pellet diets, they could DIE. You can feed many other diets depending on how much time and money you have for buying the ingredients and preparing it. I feed the HPW diet. 2 special ingredients and the rest comes form the grocery store.

2. Cage for 2 (they are social animals that live in colonies, you can;t own less than 2 or they can get depressed and self-mutilate) needs to be at least 3 feet wide by 2 feet deep by about 4 to 5 feet tall at the SMALLEST... LARGER is better, especially the width and height. Ebay has some at good prices from sellers like JM Exotics and Cage World

3. they need NO bedding... the cage has to be pwder or vinyl coated metal with glider-proof locks and a wire bottom with a tray under it you can line the tray (NOT the cage) with newspaper or waxed paper for easier clean up. they fling food onthe walls & floor around their cage when they eat. The males, especially if not neutered, can STINK because of scent glands on their heads and chests... they WILL mark YOU, the CAGE, and OTHER GLIDERS so it can get pretty stinky, and you can NEVER bathe them, it could kill them.

4. If they are properly bonded with you from a VERY young age, they are lovey-dovey... but can STILL bite and draw blood and have SHARP claws like hypodermic needles. You can put them in bonding pouches and "wear" them to help them bond to you, which they do primarily by scent.

5. they do NOT hibernate in winter and are COMPLETELY nocturnal. they MUST sleep all day or can become ill, and they will NOT wake up until WELL after dark nightly. So unless you are a nght owl, they are NOT for you, because well after dark (mine wake around 11 pm and stay up until dawn) is when they need to be played with and handled.



yes, you should know vet bills are very expensive, toys are a must, you ahve to glider-proof your whole house, etc. There is a mutitue of great info out there, but I HIGHLY suggest two things BEFORE you get some:



1) search you tube for sugar glider and view all the videos by EXPERT VILLAGE

2) register for free on glider central (the link is below) and you can talk online free to other owners and experts

Answer 4

ok, do no longer seperate the female and the male because of the fact gliders bond to a minimum of one yet another and their proprietors. in case you seperate them then they gets depressed. Altough once you sell them, tell the recent kin to neuter the male except they desire greater toddlers (and those men reproduce rapid) additionally, the toddler must be offered seperate or will them (in basic terms keep in mind that if the toddler is a male then he will ought to get neutered besides in any different case he will have toddlers with the mummy, or if the toddler is a woman the dad will desire to mate together with her) in case you do sell the toddler seperate then human beings wait till the toddler is sufficiently previous to go away the mummy, and make beneficial that the toddler is going to a house with different gliders. Please do no longer attempt to sell the toddler on my own becuase it gets depressed too.

Answer 5

1 TBPS fruit, 1TPBS veggies, 1 TPBS suppliment.



they need good size cages, they glide and require room to roam.



I suggest at LEAST 24x36, if not more.



I house mine in a 7 foot tall 270 gallon reptarium.



They can be very messy, And you Should clean up after them and their cage every night.



They DO bond with you, so much so that you can carry them everywhere with you, IF YOU SPEND THE TIME TO BOND PROPERLY.



If you do not spend a few hours EVERY day, a sugar glider will just be a stranger in your home.



They do not hibernate.



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