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If you're asking, if you can train a sugar glider like you can a dog- sit, stay, rollover- then no. The only extent of training that you'll be able to do with a sugar glider is potty training. .

If you're trying to figure out how to house train your sugar glider, remember to be patient and consistent. It generally doesn't take too much time to potty train a sugar glider, but it can be a little harder since they're nocturnal.

They will want to potty when they wake up, which you'll probably be awake then, so that shouldn't be a problem. You just want to make sure that you can get the sugar glider over a corner or box so it can go to the potty. After that, the glider should be good to go for a few hours.

Training a sugar glider to use the potty in one spot, may not be the easiest, but within some time, you should be able to do it successfully.

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Posted By: Whitney - Category: Sugar Glider

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How to House a Sugar Glider

October 14th 2009 15:15

You want to make sure that when housing a sugar glider that you provide enough room for it to jump and glide around. Bigger is usually better. So don't get the minimum if you have room to get bigger.

The minimum is only about 30W x 18D x 36H. It's best to go taller and more narrow than shorter and wider. Sugar gliders get more entertainment from height. Plus, you'll have more room for toys and branches. Keep the wires spaced at 1/2". For smaller gliders 1.4" may be better suited.

As for what type of cage. Never use an aquarium, your glider just won't be able to climb and play, and without places and surfaces to climb, he can develop hip fusions and joint problems. Wire cages work the best because they allow the sugar glider to scale the walls, and they are much easier to attach ledges and perches too.

Use dishes that attach to the wires of the cage. Bird dishes work well. Hang a hamster water bottle as well. And, of course you want toys. Vertical and horizontal branches are good to include in the cage. You can use climbing ropes, as well as a Wodent Wheel. The wheel is great for exercise, but you want to make sure that you purchase one that is plastic and does not have wire floors. You don't want your glider to get his foot stuck while running.

You can also consider small animal hammocks and pouches that will keep your sugar glider comfortable and feeling safe.

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Tips for Feeding Sugar Gliders

October 10th 2009 14:44

When feeding sugar gliders, you want to make sure that you get all four categories in a sugar glider's diet. You want to have a protein, fruits and vegetables, a staple food, and vitamins and minerals. It is very important that you feed your sugar glider a high quality, varied diet daily. This is one reason why they do not make the best pets for everyone. It can be time consuming to prepare the meal daily.

As for the protein, you can use gutloaded superworms or mealworms, sticking to about
10-12 small, 7-10 medium, or 3-5 large per sugar glider. Or, you can offer 3-5 gutloaded crickets per sugar glider. Boiled eggs without the shells mixed with a high protein/low sugar cereal, such as corn flakes or Special K with just a little bit of honey or apple juice mixed on top can be a great source or protein; offer about one tablespoon per 2 sugar gliders.

Other forms of protein that you can consider includes shrimp, brisket, beef/hamburger drained of the fat, chicken, ham (as a treat only), and tofu chunks.

For younger gliders, you want to offer turkey baby food mixed with applesauce and sweet potatoes instead of mealworms or crickets because they're just not ready for them yet.

As for fruits and vegetables, you want to make sure that everything is fresh and pesticide free. You want to offer single portions daily. Because gliders do not eat that much, you want to make sure that you do not offer too much (or even too little). It's recommended to offer the amount that would equal 1 slice of apple if it had been cut into 8 slices. This will be a good amount for 2 sugar glider.

You can offer the following fruits and vegetables as available by the time of season: apples, blueberries, cantaloupe, carrots, grape halves, green beans, honeydew, kiwi, mango, oranges (only once a week and never to joeys), pears, raw corn kernels (washed and sliced off the cob), sweet potatoes, and watermelon.

As for a staple food to offer, you can use the commercial sugar glider foods, but you want to make sure that it is a high quality food. Do not use cat food, which is what many people opt to use as a staple; it just doesn't offer nearly the nutrients that your glider needs. Cats are strict omnivores, and their food is just not formulated right for sugar gliders to eat as a staple food.

Other foods that you can offer include vanilla or honey yogurt, or a soy yogurt, as well as various flowers to include the following..

Baby's breath, bamboo, blue spruce, butterfly bush, cacti(with the thorns removed since they could harm your glider), dandelions, forget-me-nots, forsythia, hibiscus, lavender, lilac, money plants, petunias, protea, quince, roses(without the thorns), snap dragons, sycamore, willows, and yucca.

As for supplements, you want to use a calcium supplement, such as rep-cal that does not have D3. Vionate is a good mineral supplement that is recommended, as well. You can find Rep-Cal in the reptile department, and Vionate can generally found in the puppy vitamin area.

You do not want to add too many vitamins to the food. Just ad a pinch. You can overdose your gliders on the vitamins.

Also, make sure that you have fresh water daily.

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Pictures of Sugar Gliders

October 6th 2009 18:58

Sugar gliders aren't the pet for everyone. They're not even legal to have as pets in all states. So, before you purchase or adopt a sugar glider or a pair of sugar gliders, you want to do your research.

Personally, I start off all my research with pictures. I love looking at all the different pictures and interactions between the animals and people. Plus sometimes it may take me some time to decide whether or not I really want to look at the animal every day. You can't just get a pet and not look at it on a daily basis. I mean even reptiles that don't have to be fed daily are still there in your room or house. They still need some kind of attention and care.

It may be silly as knowing how to care for the pet- diet, housing, etc. is still so much more important than how it looks.

But anyway, sugar gliders are very cute marsupial pets. Again, they're not legal everywhere and with their care, most people just don't have the patients to properly care for them. So keep that in mind.

Otherwise, here are a few cute pictures of sugar gliders.