they cant rear a lot of exotic animals, its illegal to them.

LOL
Waaa.... So ganas and direct to the glider meh? My glider is also a WC fella I think. He was extremely aggressive and it took me about 8 months to tame him. When I first met my Pickles, the previous owner fed him some papaya by hand, instead of taking the papaya, Pickles bit his hand.

Now I can take Pickles out with me in his pouch, but one piece of advise : This glider will not bond to you.

You may be able to tame him to not bite and run around, but he will not respond to you and bond to you the way one that has bonded with you from a young age.

Remember, this animal was taken from the wild and put into a cage, it would most definitely be discontented if you rush the taming process. It needs time and patience to get used to it's surroundings and most importantly, you. Talk to it everyday, make it a habit to say good morning and good night.

Once the glider has become comfortable with coming out of it's pouch or house, offer it food and stroke it gently on the tail or back while it's busy eating. Later you can slowly move to stroking the head when it's used to it. Later, install a pouch into the cage and when it sleeps inside, take the pouch out with the glider and stroke it through the pouch.

DO NOT attempt to take the glider outdoors before it is accustomed to being picked up or touched with your bare hands.

This method is very safe and has a very high chance in taming your glider. I have not been bitten once by Pickles.

soggie, this is not a dog. A dog would understand your tone, but a glider, especially a WC one, will not. YES, a glider CAN bite you till you bleed.

This post has been edited by Reanne: Jan 19 2007, 05:54 AM

no no...no electric shock...sayang lah this cute little monster....

last night was the first time he went on me....i tried to carry him out...then he manage to get loose from my hand and climb around me...then went on top of my head...suddenly he jumps and glide...wow.....after that..he quickly go hide behind the book shelf...i carry him up...ahhaha..then he crab crab crab liao...quickly calm him down and feed him...

after that...the whole night..bad mood...crabbing sound like crazy everytime i try to touch him.....

this morning...carry him out and put him on my tummy for a while before i head off to work....he seems okay ... hopefully tonight can lure him out again...

Hehe.. looks like good progress there. Good luck in taming him oh...

Haha so cute... Reanne, I was just joking ler hehe.

Anyway, to share my ups and downs.

When I got the sugar glider, everybody had a piece of mind to say. The breeder gave a lot of stupid advise, like, feed it baby food can already, and can feed it bread. Then people frown when I was extremely picky with everything - from cage to food. I told them that SG has a very specific diet and housing requirement, and nobody wanted to take my views as valid, saying that things I read off the internet is bullshit.

I stuck with my own idea, and went out. First mistake then happened. I bought Pine bedding, and discarded it quickly. Sigh, RM20 plus gone! Then I went out again and got corn cob, because I can't find aspen. After getting it its cage, my mom started to offer strange advise - she thinks SG are similar to hamsters!

She wouldn't believe that a SG needs a house perched high in the air, and lots of stuff to climb around. She kept insisting that I put them on the ground, which again I naturally ignored.

I started feeding it apple sauce baby food, but after a week the male died, due to constipation I think. That was a great blow to me - I thought my handling and stubborness in following the guides online had brought his demise.

But the female was doing great, and so I kept the female and ordered a new male from the same breeder. Then I started making my own Glider Mix, and I was relieved that my Kiki loved it so much that I think she's over-feeding herself on it.

When the new male came, we decided to call it Rambo because it got into a fight with another SG before reaching my hands, and got two wounds on its face. It was rabid - not only crabbing, but actively attacking any finger that would approach it. It refused to eat at all, and we had to force feed it with baby food.

Then I had my friend (the two of us shared the cost of owning the gliders) bring the male back to her house for 2 nights, fearing that if they were kept together Kiki would be killed by Rambo. Soon we found out that Rambo didn't wanted anything, but drank milk, and on the third day we decided to let Kiki meet Rambo.

The meeting went well... in a strange way. Rambo was acting all cool and manly (he was a week younger than Kiki), but Kiki was exceptionally friendly. I guess after a week of living alone she was eager to see a mate.

She climbed all over Rambo, and even went down and licked Rambo's... err... privates, and at that moment I thought, wow, she could be a great porn star in the SG world. Anyway, Rambo got bored of Kiki and went to explore the table we put them on, and found my Glider Mix... and guess what? He dived straight into it, lapping and munching on it like its the best ice cream he ever had.

THat was when my mom came up and admitted that my Glider Mix (which she opposed in the beginning, claiming that the babies wouldn't touch that foul mix) is exceptionally good, and she had no problem feeding kiki with it.

That moment all my doubts and fears are washed away, and I became more confident of taking care of the gliders. Yay!

Anyway, tomorrow I'm gonna take Rambo to a vet - I'm afraid his wounds will develop infections, and he's a little lethargic since he met Kiki. He's a great jumper though...

Rambo is funny... he's afraid of heights. If we took him higher than 1 meter off the ground, he'll start shivering and crabbing! But he's damned good at jumping, although his landing leaves much to be desired. We put him on a thin branch, and he spent 15 minutes going nowhere - he would take one step and slip, ending at a upside down position, struggle to get back to the top, and then slip again, and the cycle continues. Then it would run up to the hamster wheel and try to stand on it, but to his dismay he found that he couldn't even put his two front paws on the wheel because it kept spinning! So he had no choice but to keep "runnig" with his two front paws because he couldn't get up to it, and panicked, started crabbing and we had to come to his rescue.

Stupid little bugger...

Reanne and Soggie: Thanks for sharing your experiences with your SG. Now it really make me feels better after knowing that my SG is actually quiet tame liao. The only missing part is the bonding thing loh.

Will keep talking and putting him on my tummy for him to get used with it.

Anyway, I couldn't find the pouches that you guys were talking..I bought those hill climbing chalk bag...is it okay ah? It has a big opening and it is really really dark inside the bag.....Anyone know is it safe?

Well if you are good in sewing you can DIY actually.

As for the chalk bag, better not. HEre's my suggestion - goto Pet Safari in IKANO, head over to the Exotic Pet Section (the one with the poor raccoon), and look at the shelf selling Quicko Sugar Glider pellets. DO NOT buy the pellets buy on the same shelf you can see a bag over there, around RM36 if not mistaken. That one should be good enough.

Oh okay....i will do that this weekend when i get to go there....thanks for your quick response.....

HI my name is victor and im a very new sugar glider owner..i just got them yesterday...im afraid they are not eating...i tried feeding them by hand but they wouldnt take it...how pls help urgent

ooh yah..by the way..izzit advisable to feed them the baby food the apple juice wan in a container..wat is advisable??

What kind of baby food? Liquid or starchy? If they won't take it from your hand, put in a dish first. Then lure them to the dish and see what happens.

emr Gerber brand wan..apple flavour...ooh izzit..aihz..i tgh stress man...anyways tdo they sleep alot ah??
hey thanks for fast reply

I would guess its Heinz Apple Baby Food? Yeah, but make sure before you feed them make sure the food is warm enough. But making ur own glider mix is better.

no it's Gerber...hhhmmm how do i mix it with wat leh??...teach teach abit hahah...me still very noob..oh yah do they sleep alot ah..

hi, can i feed my SG the hamster food?

hamster food?

Sugar Glider is not Hamster and Hamster is not Sugar Glider. The spelling also not the same how to feed same food?

U have a Sugar Glider with you? I pity that poor little thing....

cnt la..it's not good for them...go read the first page about sugar glider's diet la..sugar glider's cant take corn that was wat mentioned to me

Victor,

Just like I told Soggie in my post a few pages back, make them a standard mix. You can get the recipe by googling it or you can buy the mix. The when they get used to it feed them fruits and meal worms etc as well. My SGs really like the mix I make them.

Soggie,

Congrats on making a your babies and good mix and getting them to eat! I know how you felt because I went through the same thing.

SuiTeng,

I am not sure why they are fighting but it does not seem like they are playing. They are fighting for real. But I brought them to work with me the past few days and there was no fighting! Maybe they just wanted attention?

ooh okay...hhhmm they onli eat at night??

izzit ok if i mix baby milk,gerber's baby apple food,egg,and banana??