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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 5:06 am
by dravarian26
I've had a sugar glider for about half a year and have been trying multiple diets. The one working best for me is baby food (with the vitamin powder stuff in it) and random fruits daily, occasionally a piece of bread or some yogurt or chicken or something.

But whenever I stop watching it for a bit and let it jump around the room, it almost always starts eating my books on the bookshelf. Does it need something to chew on, am I missing something in its diet, or is it just really weird and hate reading?
dravarian262010-10-27 06:10:39

PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:13 am
by Cora
Hello, Here is a link to the diet section on the glider help page. Please choose a diet that is easy for you and your glider and that you can get the ingredients for.  There is tons of other good info on this page as well.  
Yes they chew, they are tree dwellers that use their teeth to compromise trees and get the sap out of them.   

Is your glider a boy or girl?  Does your glider have a name?  

 

PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 12:43 pm
by Cora

PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 4:10 pm
by dravarian26
The sugar glider is a male and named Jurdu. I got a female a couple months ago, but it still hates me right now, I'm trying to get it used to me, but its taking a while.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 6:22 pm
by Cora
Yea females are harder but when the bond clicks it will be the strongest bond you have ever had with an animal.  Are you using a tent to play with them in to get them interacting with you?  If not genjitent.com has the best one its a pop up, 1 minute up and 1 minute down, easy peasy!  also well ventilated.     Its my fav. of all the tents I have ever used.   Gonna put a bonding section on my website tonight!
http://angelfish_37.webs.com/

PostPosted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 6:02 pm
by dravarian26
No I don't use a tent, I just let them roam around my room, but a tent would be a better idea. I'll try and get one.

Some more questions:
-the female bites. Like every time she gets near my hands. She sort of wobbles trying to reach like she sniffing, them just grabs on, I'm kind of annoyed that when it first happened I accidentally flung it across the room, just cause of how unexpected it was. She even bit my toe once when I was sitting down. Anyway any tips for biting control?

-do they need something to chew on, a wood block or something? they keep trying to eat any wood or paper materials they find.

-Is it healthy to try and acclimate them to waking up in the middle of the day so its easier to play with them? or just keep waiting till around 9-11PM

-Sometime they just freeze and don't move for hours. Is that bad?

-How do you get them to stop fighting when they are together? I've been keeping them separated after the first couple fights and just leaving the cages near each other for about 2 months now without much improvement.

-Their nails are getting kind of long and get stuck on stuff, I'm not sure how to shorten them, especially since neither like me touching them with my hands.

-They aren't able to be house broken right? Just want to ask in case there is a way,and i just can't find a real one.

Sorry for having so many and putting most of these in the wrong place but I don't want to have like 10 different posts throughout the forum and comb through past discussions to find unrelated answers.

Thanks in advancedravarian262010-11-01 19:17:01

PostPosted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 7:09 pm
by Cora
No I don't use a tent, I just let them roam around my room, but a tent would be a better idea. I'll try and get one.   Please do its safer

Some more questions:
-the female bites. Like every time she gets near my hands. She sort of wobbles trying to reach like she sniffing, them just grabs on, I'm kind of annoyed that when it first happened I accidentally flung it across the room, just cause of how unexpected it was. She even bit my toe once when I was sitting down. Anyway any tips for biting control?  You can make a loud psssssssst noise, distract with feather teasers . They are sap suckers and she just knows you have sap under your skin! This will diminish as she gets older.

-do they need something to chew on, a wood block or something? they keep trying to eat any wood or paper materials they find. Safe wood is untreated apple sticks, cherry sticks, euc products.


-Is it healthy to try and acclimate them to waking up in the middle of the day so its easier to play with them? or just keep waiting till around 9-11PM  I would not want someone waking me up for play in the middle of the night so I dont wake mine up until they get up.

-Sometime they just freeze and don't move for hours. Is that bad? no

-How do you get them to stop fighting when they are together? I've been keeping them separated after the first couple fights and just leaving the cages near each other for about 2 months now without much improvement. What is the nature of the fighting? If breeding it will sound like they are killing each other.  If you get the male neutered they may get along better



-Their nails are getting kind of long and get stuck on stuff, I'm not sure how to shorten them, especially since neither like me touching them with my hands. nail trimming is tricky. You can call me about that if you wish.

-They aren't able to be house broken right? Just want to ask in case there is a way,and i just can't find a real one. Nope they will pee and poo whenever and where ever

Sorry for having so many and putting most of these in the wrong place but I don't want to have like 10 different posts throughout the forum and comb through past discussions to find unrelated answers.  No problem

Thanks in advance You are quite welcome


PostPosted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 8:59 pm
by dravarian26
I have no idea why they fight. They kind of stare for a second then one jumps on the other and knock it to the ground. The male is already neutered so I really don't know why they fight. Maybe the male is just territorial it attacked the first time, now it is just random.

I was watching them once and each one kept triying to get higher ground they leap onto the other, after a while I just gave up trying to see if they would stop and just separate and play with each one at a time.

PostPosted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 9:06 am
by dravarian26
Sorry for double-posting. Just wanted to know about temperature, since its starting to get pretty cold now.

I wanted to know if they needed something more than their little pouch-hangy-things to keep warm. I really can't keep the heat on all night either, so if they do need warmth, what should I do?

Also where should I ask more questions? Continuously posting them on this thread will probably keep getting more and more off-topic, and I don't want to spam the site with a bunch of random questions.dravarian262010-11-06 10:08:44

PostPosted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 5:02 pm
by Cora
cover all but the front of the cage with fleece, nice and snug.   Maybe put a heating pad on low somewhere in between the fleece, like near their pouch , maybe move things around  including the pouch so it gets some warmth. Just make sure your glider cannot get to the cord or heating pad.  I use electric space heaters in my gliders rooms!  
I wonder if a ceramic heat emitter above the top of the cage would work?