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By Lauren Valian

There are rumors out there saying that it’s hard to feed sugar gliders. The reason for those rumors are because of lack of the right information when it comes to feed captive exotic pets such as these.

Is there a best guide to feed sugar gliders out there that would let you know once and for all what to feed and what not to feed to them? Yes, there is and if you are looking for one you have come to the right place.

Why is it so important to feed your sugar gliders the right way?

We as humans can tolerate unhealthy food for quite some years before it affects our health in most cases, when it comes to the animal kingdom, however, it’s a whole different story. Animals are much more sensitive to their diet than we are. Sugar gliders are no different. As a matter of fact, you could kill your little exotic pet with the wrong food in less than 3 months when their life expectancy is 12-15 year. This is what has happened to many new owners who have seen their pet die less than 3 months after they purchased it.

If you don’t have any idea about the basic care for sugar gliders and especially how to feed them, you should definitely get educated before you bring your pet home. In the case you already own one or more pets and don’t really know what to do it’s not too late to get informed.

These exotic animals don’t come cheap, so you don’t want to waste your money and the life of your new pet because of lack of knowledge.

Knowledge is power and it will save you from a lot of frustration to know what to expect and how to feed your sugar gliders.

If you do it right, it doesn’t have to be difficult or take a lot of your time at all. Frankly, it shouldn’t take you more than 10 minutes out of your whole day to feed your little pets. Not only it will take you less time when you know what you are doing, but it will save the life of your little pet and help it thrive with energy and vibrant health.

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By Gani T.

They are cute and they fit in your pockets. Also known as pocket pets, sugar gliders can be smart, affectionate, and loving companions if you bond well with them. They can also be quite handful if you don’t know how to treat them properly. Whether sugar gliders can become good pets depends on your readiness to take care of them in many areas. Are they good for you, your family, and your home environment is a kind of questions you might have. As you ponder further, let’s examine some pros and cons to owning sugar gliders as pets.

Cons/Disadvantages of Owning Sugar Gliders

Cons/disadvantages would vary between owners. What could be cons for one may not be the same way for another. Here are some possible disadvantages of owning sugar gliders as pets:

• Nocturnal: They are awake and active at night. This means that you can only play with them affectionately some hours after the sun sets. You could have one that starts waking up late at night when you are about to go to sleep. Unless you live in a cave, you should consider owning at least a pair of these cute ones. A pair or a group can play and occupy with themselves while you are sleeping past midnight.
• One vs more: If you only want to own one, be prepared to devote more attention to him/her. This includes interacting with him/her sometime past midnight. While you are typically asleep during those hours, it would bark for your attention. This would not be a problem if you are a night owl or your job allows you to sleep during the day. Otherwise, bringing home at least a pair and equipping their cage with safe toys for them to occupy will save you some hassles.
• Potty: Unlike cats and dogs, they cannot be potty trained. You would have to live with them urinating and defecating anywhere, including on you. This can be prevented by simply bonding well with them overtime. As you start getting acquainted with these cute ones, it is better to prepare things like newspapers, a specific room, and a specific sink in case any potty accident happens. When that happens, you should learn and observe their body language.

Pros/Advantages to Owning Sugar Gliders

Just like cons/disadvantages, every owner would experience different pros/advantages. The following are some of them:

• Bonding: With proper care and enough interaction (minimum 2 hours daily/nightly), these cute ones will bond well with you. They will get used to and recognize every part of you including your scent and your movement. They would also love to curl up in your pockets and sleep in one during the day.
• Cute: They are bred in color variations and they have been perceived as cute by many. If you own at least a pair, you would find it amusing to watch them when they play. They can also respond to tricks and glide to you with affection.
• Maintenance: These furry looking critters do not require vaccinations, but periodic visits to a specialized veterinarian (exotic pet care or sugar gliders vet) may be necessary (approximately once a year). Their diet is generally simple and inexpensive, but you still need to take time preparing and watching nutritional guidelines. Their odor is tolerable as long as you feed them proper diet.

If you are an animal lover, you will find sugar gliders fun and loving companions. They are not the right pets for you if you prefer them to be self-sufficient. They require daily/nightly attention, some proper care and maintenance. With every con/disadvantages, there is at least a solution. It takes some work to care for sugar gliders as pets, but it’s not that bad at all.

Are sugar gliders right pets for you? A good source is to consult with other sugar gliders’ owners. There will be variable experiences across different owners whether there are pros and cons (good and bad). It also depends on whether you are ready to take care of them. Visit How to Take Care of Sugar Gliders to get some ideas on taking care of sugar gliders as pets.

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By Michael H Bolden

A lot of people are skeptic when it comes to sugar glider training. The fact is that you can train your glider, to a certain degree. But before you start training it something difficult, ask yourself if you want a glider that stays on your shoulder wherever you walk, or you want it to run around a house free.

The reason I’m asking you is because this will determine your further actions in training your suggie.

If you choose that you want a pet who never leaves you, the training will begin by teaching them to stay on your shoulder or in your pocket. Just put sugar glider on your shoulder or in your pocket and walk around your house. Every time it jumps off you, pick it up gently and put it back on your shoulder or in your pocket. The point is to let your sugar glider understand that it should stay on your shoulder. If your sugar glider jumps on another person – that’s okay. Just don’t let it jump on the things or run away from you.

Usually it takes four to five months until your sugar glider is trained to stay with you at all times.

However if you choose to let your pet run around your house free, the training should begin in small room. First of all you would let your sugar glider out of cage and let it explore this new room. After a while you should call it and give him a treat. Basically first time you will have to lure him with a treat in order to come to you, but keep repeating the command so your sugar glider associates it with a treat.

When you feel ready, move to a bigger room and do the same thing. Call the command and give a treat when your sugar glider comes to you. Soon your sugar glider will run around the house and come whenever you call it.

Just a little warning though: don’t let your glider run around the house alone, because it might get fall into a toilet or get into other risky situations, that you wouldn’t want it to get to.

Michael Bolden has been caring for sugar glider for more than 15 years now. To learn more about how to train your sugar glider be sure to visit his website at: http://www.sugarglidertips.com

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By Michael H Bolden

Sugar gliders are amazing pets and friends and having one as a pet and friend is truly an amazing experience. And thanks to their natural charisma sugar gliders are becoming more and more popular around the US.

Even though it’s a real pleasure to have one as a pet, I would strongly suggest you checking out if sugar gliders are legal pets in your state. The thing is that sugar gliders are exotic pets and some state laws might claim them illegal. So just to be safe than sorry, check the US Department Of Agriculture laws to find out if it’s okay to own one in your state.

If you find out that it’s okay to own sugar glider in your state, then try and find as much information as you can about sugar glider care. Even though sugar gliders are small and are pretty healthy animals they still require a lot of time to feel loved and happy. So just before you buy a sugar glider, find out EVERYTHING you can about your new pet and how to take care of it.

Now, the next thing is that you must know is that they might live up to 15 years. Even though it’s a strange thing to say, I want you to understand that this is not a short-term commitment. You will have to spend at least 2 hours of quality time every day with your pet for your sugar glider to feel loved and be healthy. So think this over again and commit to that.

When it comes to buying one, even though they might be hard to find, buy only from licensed breeders. Finding one will take some time and the best place to start from is International Sugar Gliders Association.

After you’ve found a breeder near you and they have some in stock – visit them. See the conditions that they are living in. If they are keeping their sugar gliders in aquariums it might mean that breeders are not too concerned with their sugar gliders’ health and buying one from them might be a pretty risky thing to do.

Also, ask what are they feeding their sugar gliders with. If pellets are the only thing that they feed them – it’s not a good sign. Sugar gliders need much more minerals and elements that can be found in pellets.

Now if everything is fine, start choosing your new pet. Try to choose pet that is at least of 8 weeks old.

When you’ve found one that would like to take home, don’t forget to ask breeder for their contact information, so that you can contact them if something goes wrong or just have simple sugar glider care question.

Michael Bolden has been caring for sugar glider for more than 15 years now. To learn more about how to buy sugar gliders be sure to visit his website at: http://www.sugarglidertips.com

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By Stephen Patrick Byrne

If you own a Sugar Glider, you may be slowly killing it with the diet you are feeding or the environment you have your pet living in. A lot of pet owners may not want to believe or know this, but the stark reality is, not knowing the proper care of a Sugar Glider is plain unfair to the creature and unfortunately a grown trend in America and Europe.

Over the past few months of researching and finding out all the information on these little animals, I have been shocked by the neglect and improper care of Sugar Gliders. A lot of the time you will come across articles by vets who are treating Gliders for broken bones (due to lack of calcium), malnutrition because of a shocking diet, and chronic fatigue and lethargy, with some Gliders hardly able to move, again, all because of lack of knowledge on diets and proper care.

Owners pay a whooping 200-250 dollars or euros each for Sugar Gliders, and it is recommended you buy a pair for the good of the animals mental health, and then, this will not include the small fortune on the extras such as food, cages, toys, vet bill etc. so if this was all taking in to account, it baffles the mind why, like owning a cat or dog, you would not research and do all that’s in your power to properly care for these cute creatures.

Know Your Pets Needs

Feeding your Sugar Gliders, as I have come across, hot dogs, Mac Donald’s, Coke, Pizza etc. is madness. With this type of diet, these pets do not last very long, becoming weak and dying. They need a special diet, that can actually cost less than any junk food you may be giving these animals.

Gliders are exotic animals and difficult to care for, but not impossible. There is a ton of information on the Internet, though most of it can be misleading. Do your research, lay out a diet plan for your pet, as you would for yourself if you wanted to live healthy.

Remember, as a pet, you are paying a lot of money first to buy a Glider, then with the accessorizes been an extra cost, it all adds up to a lot of money and would make a lot of sense to know your pets needs as Gliders are pretty cute, very loving and can make excellent pets when properly cared for.

Start making a proper diet plan for your Sugar Glider and Learn more at http://sugar-glider-care.com about caring for your the future of your pet.

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By Michael H Bolden

Bonding with sugar gliders might take some time and patience, but it the most rewarding and wonderful part of owning a sugar glider as a pet.

To make your sugar glider become your best pal and really familiar with you, what you need is spend some quality time with it. If you have a sugar glider that has been bred in captivity it might take you a lot less time to bond with it, mostly because they are already familiar with humans and are not afraid of them. The simple rule here is not to force anything.

Take your time and be patience. Don’t worry if your bonding will take a little more time than you thought before, usually it takes somewhere from instant bond to up to few months. To speed the bonding process what you can do is take some piece of cloth that you’ve been wearing for quite a while and that has your scent on it, and put it inside your sugar gliders nesting box. This little trick will help your sugar glider get used to your scent a lot faster.

If, however, you have a sugar glider who isn’t completely tamed, don’t wear gloves (as some people might want to do) while handling them. This is mostly because of the fact that sugar gliders will get used to the smell of your gloves, instead of your own scent.

Now, I know that these little suggies can bite when they get mad and it actually does hurt, but what I would suggest is just sticking it through. Don’t try to jerk them around, mostly because it will hurt you even more and returning them to their cage once they’ve bitten you is also not a good idea. That’s because your sugar glider will start to think, that every time it bites you, you put it back and leave it alone.

So what to do?

Stick it through, be brave and continue handling them. It might take a huge amount of your patience and another dose of pain-killers, but after a while your sugar glider will start to understand that even if it bites you, you still continue to handle it.

Make sure to keep children away from your sugar glider. That’s because most of the kids, even love animals, show that love by squeezing too hard, which causes suggie to bite back. You can also use Pocket Training trick. Carry your sugar glider in your shirt pocket throughout all day, giving it treats from time to time. Just make sure that you don’t lean to something and injure your suggie.

Michael Bolden has been caring for sugar glider for more than 15 years now. To learn more about bonding with sugar gliders be sure to visit his website at: http://www.sugarglidertips.com.

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By Gani T.

Understanding sugar gliders’ dietary needs is the most important part of caring for sugar gliders as pets. Unlike the regular pets (cats and dogs), you need to understand the exotic nature of these little ones. Not feeding them properly will shorten their life span that should have been more than 10 to 15 years.

Sugar gliders are omnivores (eat both plants and animals). In their natural habitat, these cute ones hunt for any available insects and arachnids. Hence, these critters are often referred as insectivores.

Unlike the variable cat and dog food products, you would not be able to find commercial food products for sugar gliders in any stores. Even if you buy one from a specialized store, you cannot rely on it as a healthy diet. A sugar gliders’ diet need to involve the following elements:

• Fruits and vegetables: They can be served fresh or frozen, but it is highly recommended that you serve them fresh. Canned products are to be avoided at all times since any contents and preservatives in them can potentially harm your little ones. Fresh fruits and vegetables need to be cut/chopped into small bite sized pieces in order to prevent these cute ones from easily choking. If you have to serve frozen ones, you need to thaw them first. Then microwaving/heating them needs to be done few hours before you serve them.
• Protein: This comes in different varieties. You can get processed insects from a specialized store and feed your cute ones a gut load. Avoid feeding them wild insects found around the house or your yard for they may contain parasites or pesticides. You can feed them regular source of protein like boiled eggs, chicken, and yogurt. When preparing any of these, watch for fat content since excesses of fat can ruin the health of your little ones.
• Calcium: More likely, it is already part of fruits, vegetables, and protein. You can add vitamins and supplements, which are highly recommended, to enrich this very important element. You still need to be careful not to overdose on vitamins when mixing them in a diet. Calcium in a healthy diet needs to be proportionately higher than phosphorus, exactly 2:1 ratio. Providing consistent diet with this ratio will prevent your cute ones from developing hind-leg paralysis and any other bone disease.

Preparing a well balanced sugar gliders’ diet may seem challenging and complicated. It is actually like fixing a person’s nutritious food, except that a person more likely would not consume insects. Just like a healthy conscious person, you get to control what your little ones would eat. You may sometimes feed your cute ones some treats and experiment with their diet. As long as you provide consistent diet with important elements above, your sugar gliders will stay healthier and will live longer.

Currently, there are different types of diets developed out there for these cute ones. Whichever diet you want to implement, you need to make sure that it contains the important elements for a healthy sugar gliders’ diet. There is also a list of safe fruits and vegetables that can be fed to your cute ones, although this list is not conclusive. Feeding Sugar Gliders at Home will give you some advice, tips, and recommendation on how to prepare a well balanced sugar gliders’ diet.

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By Michael H Bolden

A lot of people that have bought sugar gliders home have no idea what to do next… What will be their next step? Do you know what will be yours?

Try to see through your sugar glider’s eyes. Everything is new to you and you’ve never seen these people or place before. You are even a little bit scared. You’ve been taken away from your home and put in a situation that is completely unknown to you.

While you have this in mind, try to come up with the best thing to do. I always suggest putting your sugar glider into its new home for a day or so, just to get used and calm down. What’s happening during that period is that your sugar glider is becoming familiar to the new place and new smells that it haven’t seen/smelled before.

Feeding your sugar glider with some treats that they really enjoy eating (like grapes, nuts etc.) is a good idea, since they will associate good feeling not only with the food that you are feeding them but also with your face.

Decide who will be the leader for the cockatiel. Then let only that person carry sugar glider for the next couple of days. After those few days have passed it’s okay to introduce suggie to the other family members. Just take it slow and don’t force things. Once your sugar glider is feeling safe with you and your family members the bonding process has begun.

Sugar gliders just love people and you will see that they are amazing pets as soon as it gets used to the new surroundings. Even though sugar gliders will mostly stay around their main care taker, they will also love to spend some time with other people that they are used to.

Just remember that sugar gliders are very sociable creatures and if you neglect them for some time they might get depressed or even angry. So be sure to have some quality time with your sugar glider and don’t waste any opportunity to work with them.

Soon the most interesting thing will happen, your sugar glider will start coming to you just to play or cuddle. Sugar gliders might react just like dogs when you come back and come alive as soon as they see your face. And even though they love to be handled, make sure you are very careful while you do so.

Michael Bolden has been caring for sugar glider for more than 15 years now. To learn more about caring for sugar gliders be sure to visit his website at: http://www.sugarglidertips.com.

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By Rosie Dawson

If you have taken the time to research sugar gliders and have decided you have the time to commit to them, you may be wondering where you are going to find a decent breeder who as healthy sugar gliders and who knows what they are doing.

One thing I wouldn’t really recommend is buying one from a pet shop if the pet shop in your local area does have sugar gliders. It’s heartbreaking to see how many sugar gliders are kept in small aquariums sitting in pine shavings meant for rabbits or guinea pigs. If you have been researching sugar glider care, you know how incredibly inhumane that is. Do your research on specific breeders before buying from them or on organizations. Although it is hard to be completely sure if a breeder is qualified. I would suggest if the breeder will allow it, ask if you can actually see where the gliders are being kept and how they are raised to make sure the person who is breeding is actually caring for the gliders correctly and not breeding and selling gliders to make a quick buck. As awful as that sounds, it happens consistently throughout the US daily and if you are not careful, you can end up buying gliders that may not make it through the week because of improper care that led to them being sick or having a disease.

Even if they say that they are USDA licensed, that doesn’t mean they care for their joeys and sugar gliders properly. When you go to visit the breeder, make sure they are in cages large enough to house them and make sure they are not being fed pellets. An experienced breeder will know that a sugar glider has a complex diet. Make sure to ask any questions you may have, even if you know the answer, a good breeder will know the answer and will provide you with it quickly. When you take a look at the joeys, they should be at least 8 weeks old, furry and has a pink nose, tongue, nails and footpads. They should be lively and alert. They should not have diarrhea, odd colored stools or strong smelling urine.

Always ask for the breeders contact number in case you have any other questions. A good breeder will not hesitate to give it to you. Make sure you have looked for all of these things before deciding on which breeder you will buy your new baby sugar glider from. The last thing anyone would want is to spend $200 to $400 on a sugar glider only to have it pass away soon after because of living in an unhealthy environment prior to you adopting. If you are looking for older sugar gliders, I would recommend trying pet finder. Sometimes they do have younger sugar gliders on their also. Almost all sugar gliders on this website are in shelters and have been abandoned, most likely by someone who bought on an impulse. If you adopt from here you can give a sugar glider a second chance, but I am going to STRESS this, make sure you can care for it for as long as it needs it. The last thing the sugar glider needs is to wind up at a shelter a second time.

For a complete guide to caring for Sugar Gliders, visit Sugar Glider Pet Guide. You will also find out more information regarding what states Sugar Gliders are legal in.

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