Sugar Glider Central

Posted: **Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:33 pm**

G'day,

Stumbled across this site and thought i would sign up as i keep sugar gliders, among other native animals, etc. My main question is regarding the cage sizes commonly used in the states. I'm reading posts about large cages being 6 foot tall by 3 foot wide and 2 foot deep. I would never keep any of my gliders in an enclosure that small, even with regular outings/playtime. Even if the gliders are given free time for several hours every night, that still leaves many many hours of being stuck in a small cage while they are wide awake. I beleive if somebody can't afford or have the room for a large enclosure, they shouldn't be keeping sugar gliders if they care. There are many animals that i would love to keep but i've accepted that i won't have room and ultimately i won't be able to care for them as they should be. So i enjoy them in the wild, read literature, etc. My current enclosure is 15 foot long by 15 foot wide by 8 foot high. I would love to give them something bigger, and i will when i have more room. They love using all the available space. It really saddens me to hear that people overseas are keeping gliders in cages only 32 inches by 20 inchs by 20 inches. In my opinion that is animal cruelty, but people will do as they will. I find it amazing that a human is able to justify almost anything to themselves, while others may not be convinced. Other than that i love sugar gliders. I also have a croc named charlie, he's enclosure takes up most of the yard. He's got a massive waterfall and pond. Any other glider owners with large enclosures? Feel free to share

Posted: **Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:10 pm**

WOW! Could you PLEASE post pictures if possible. so we could maybe get some Ideas. How many gliders do you have?

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:31 am**

... your from australia so you probably know it is illegal for you to keep such animals in captivity and since it is illegal you probably didint buy your glider am i right you took them from the wild .. your croc to ... if you actually bought them you probably take them from illegal source and you actually talk about animal crualty go into your bathroom there is a miror there and take a good look at yourself as for your croc i dunno how big is your yard but i know that crocs have territory wich takes many km square for your croc it is like you would put a sugar glider in a hamster cage sombody should report you ...... it is illegal to take animals from the wild so stop talking about us and look at what your doing under your own roof ... pfffffffffffff

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2008 9:18 pm**

Damn i just wrote a really long post explaining it but cleared when i tried sending it. Basically, it is not illegal to keep native animals in Australia if you have certain licences, all the states have certain laws regarding different animals, different animals have different licences. It is legal to own sugar gliders in 3 states on a basic licence. Crocodiles can be kept in 3 states also on an advanced licence. Keeping these animals in other states is illegal. But they can keep animals we can't and so on. From the 70's to 90's it was illegal to keep native wildlife. I own an advanced licence, and all my animals were captive breed. Basically noone owns wild caught animals in Australia, it is illegal and policed, so you'd be stupid to do it. They also do random searches at licence holders properties. It is illegal to own exotic animals (other than like cats and dogs and stuff) in Australia. We have enforced minimum enclosure sizes and when i saw the enclosure sizes here i was just shocked, i guess if it works go for it. Not many people in Australia keep sugar gliders. My accidently deleted post had much more detail and additional info. Just can't be bothered writing it all again. So anyone else from oz?

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