emino, who's bonai?? the dude with the "wassup" glider???

The wassup glider owner leaves his number with me so that I can tell him the confirmed date of our 'official' gathering. He's 'Cukin'.

Bonai is the one who brings his girlfriend. I think I have a picture of him...


This post has been edited by emino: Mar 30 2008, 03:30 PM

So that's my girlfriend?

ahaha! eh, wan to ask, is a 6 month old suggie alright ??? is it too old already? i'm planning to get my first suggie before the big gathering

Ah? Who ah? LOL.... yesterday got many also came with gf and bf, heheheh.... anyway, come for our glider gathering yah. Come join our community.

Wah, you confuse people lah..... that pic is not of him and his gf hahahaha....

POssible. Of course can bond but it would be slower coz 6 months is almost adult already. There is no need to get a joey before gathering mah heheheh....

lol. I meant its a picture of YOU! Dont have a picture of you and your gf side by side. Sorry.
Lagipun Hun as a gf is good what? FREE SLURP! Haha~ Kidding!

since i see this thread i love to get 1 suggie...
i have been doin research for suggie up and down for very long adi...
but i scare i cant take care them properly and ruin their whole life...
i m a pet and animal lover... i will be very sad if i ruin their life..
bcos i stay in condo i cant rear a dog... i wan a compinion... hamster wont show me much love to me... hamster alway wan to run away and cant follow me everywhere... same to rabbit and genie pig... i love animal... SG i think is suitable... because SG need alot attention i scare they will day of loneliness. so b4 i get 1... i wan to ask some question... hope u all can help me out this question...

1) when they are familiar to us and when i bring them out, will they run here run there? cos if they run everywhere, is easy to get lost le...

2)i can spend at least 2-3 hours aday with them... is it enuf?

3)they eat fruit only or eat fruit and dog/cat food together? how to make their shit is not too watery if eat fruit regularly?

4)will they pee and shit at my body? i understand they cannot toilet train, but can at least train not to shit on me?

5)the food we give them in the cage is hung in the air with bowl or put it juz like hamster?

6)the cage knot put wood? i mean juz like hamster tat need to change regularly? will affect their health?


sorry so many question... but juz to make sure i understand everything b4 i get 1 or 2 suggie... i saw some ppl put in small cage... pity them...
if reli don suit my life then better don buy them as see them suffering juz like in the pet shop... ><

hmmm... i'm a noob, but let me try to answer your question...
pros, please correct me if i' wrong...

gliders need companionship....
i spend a lot.. i mean a lot of time with my glider... but somehow, a companion would be great...
get 2 gliders... you can option to get 1 first, bond with it and get another 1...

1 - familiar, i believe you are trying to say "bond or bonded".... if your glider is bonded to you, they will not venture far from you... they see you as their safest tree... but each glider has got its own personality... some do jump around, but some don't... thru my experience, my glider on jump around away from my shoulder when she see something familiar... e:g, her cage, my desk, my chair, my curtains....
when she is out, she will stay on me all the time, unless i stop at a specific spot and chat for a long time, my glider will then jump on someone else... my glider is not totally bonded to me yet...

2 - yes, you can spend 2-3hrs with them daily... during playtime, which is when your glider is awake...
aty other time, carry your glider around with you in a bonding bag.. this allow them to get use to your voice, your body odour.. thus making the bonding process faster...

3 - they eat fruits mainly... and you need to feed them with mealworms,crickets, or boiled chicken... best, for hassle free solution, get a gliderslurp... it has all the goodies for gliders in a container... how not to make the poo watery?? generally, their poo is not watery... i believe you mean soft... to make the poo not to be so soft, feed fruits with high fibres... in conclusion, fruits 75% insects 25%

4 - this again, is up to the glider itself... my glider pee and poo on me.. others, pee somewhere else, i've read that glider pee and poo on you, for the fact that, they do this in the nature on their fav. tree.... i don't have any problem with my glider peeing and pooing on me... because they will... it depends how often... ehehehe....

5 - i serve my glider food in a bowl... i believe others is doing the same thing too... and not to forget, you'll need a water bottle...

6 - wood? i believe you mean wood shavings... its a NO NO NO... normally, people uses newspaper, corn corbs, and some commercial cat litter...

now, do go and do more research on how to keep a glider, google.com can help you with lotsa info... and also, read all the info at page 1... prepare yourself, these gliders is cute, but remember, they will live a 10-15yrs... are you prepared for such a long time commitment???

Yes i'm the fella that came with a huge "pouch" at the back.. LoL and yes.. ur suggie jumped away from u.. hahaha keep jumping onto other people's tree branch.. =P

ur suggie darn like to jump on other fellas la.. lucky didn't jump onto my 'other' fren that almost squach reanne's billie.. =p oh it's reanne.. not rachel.. swt.. =P

Today i went to ikano.. GOT like 6 joeys there! omg.. they are quite tamed d.. didn't bite me also.. but sebelah reptile corner.. a hedgehog lick my hand like 2 minutes.. then started biting me.. ouch.. =P sakit.. still got the mark here.. =P hehehe

actually guys.. can i use the hrm.. Flexarium for gliders ah? it's quite huge.. and black.. not like cages it's metal and hard.. but this one is huge.. and light.. and it's almost like kain.. not really kain.. it's something like this..

Getting a glider may be tempting coz of their sociable and smart nature, but yah, ask questions and think first before getting. You're doing it right

1) You need to bond with your glider. It doesn't happen overnight. It takes weeks to months. And it requires consistent handling, playing and pouch bonding. We are able to have such friendly gliders coz most of us here bond with them for at least 8 hours in the bonding pouch during the day. That means hanging the pouch around our necks and go along with our daily routine. This makes the glider get familiar with our smell, voice and touch. Then you need to spend like 2 to 3 hours as minimum playtime. This is handling, petting, calling it's name, letting it roam about your body.... if you can't do all this daily, then the joey would go untame and lonely too if it were kept as a single glider.

2) Answered already but then if you can only spend 2 to 3 hours a day by playing and bonding, then your joey would not be as close to you.

3) They eat fruits. 75% fruits. Only certain high quality cat/dogfood can be used and only 1 to 2 pieces a day. Cat/dogfood is not a staple, it is only a supplement. The 1st page has all the info you need actually.... so do read up. Some of your questions are like our repeated answers in the 1st page.

4) All gliders will pee and poo where they like. Peeing is also a part of scent marking and mine does that to me. Us glider owners do not mind, I do get disgusted faces when I people that I am my glider's toilet. They are not dogs, so you can't tell them to pee and poo on command. In cages, some gliders would do it everywhere, some would do at a specific location.... but peeing and pooping on our bodies once a while is considered ok.

5) Gliders are arboreal. So we hang the bowls. We use stainless steel metal bowls that comes with holders, easy and hygienic.

6) No wood shavings. Our wood shavings in Malaysia are of those that are not really suitable for small animals. Hamsters living on them is ok coz their lifespan is like 2 to 3 years.... but a glider? 10 to 15 years.... so it can cause a lot of damage to their health. Newspaper, Breeder's Celect and Healthy Pet (both recycled paper litter), Litter Star, corn cobs are ok to use. Now I don't use any substrate anymore. My cage has a metal tray, everyday I wash off the pee and poo.

It may be pitiful to see them at petshops... but if we buy them off the petshop, they would just bring more joeys for sale and more would suffer. If we stop buying from these unethical petshops, they would realize that they got no sales, then they would stop selling joeys. This has happened at a petshop near my home and I am happy about it.

Ikano the joeys there are all underage. That is why tame. They have no idea what is danger, what is safe. The breeder pulled them away from their moms. So poor thing.... not independent yet wan. Anyone who buys joeys that small have a risk of getting a joey with poor health. Underage joeys are defenseless, so that is why no bites.... So the word is not really tame.... more like they have no idea and are blur/clueless....

No.... I would say Flexarium is not permanent. Why? It is thin nylon material. Gliders can chew to escape. Most of us would use the Flexarium as a traveling cage or boarding cage but never as a permanent home.

so it would be better to get a bird cage? but it's exp.. sob.. it's not really nylon rite? but it's soft ler..

Underage? aiks.. no wonder.. sob.. but can we train them if they are underage? the staffs there also can't really handle them properly.. let the joey jump.. and fall flat on ground.. piek.. kesian i see them this morning.. sob..can't really glide that well yet.. apple aint that superb fresh also.. sob.. who took them away from their mom..

Bird cage expensive? LOL.... Flexarium is not hardy and expensive. You can get the basic cage set from Pet Shack. Rm160 only, so cheap already coz it comes with a water bottle, a bonding pouch, a sleeping pouch and breeder celect bedding.

Flexarium is a type of nylon but not strong enough against glider's teeth. The type of caging is actually more for reptiles coz reptiles don't chew and bite.

Is not the matter of training. Underage, they leave their mom too early, so they do not get enough milk. This causes their body to grow at a slow pace, making them prone to getting infection or falling sick. They would require extreme care, have a mild heat source and have to be fed with milk. There are only 2 types of pet milk which is ok for gliders, which is Pets Own and Just Born.... but it is not easy to get at every petshop. Some end up dying, so that is a big heart ache. I met a few ex-glider owners.... they joeys die in like a month to less than a year coz of the food, and also growth. Malnutrition....

The staff there have little knowledge. All their knowledge comes from the "breeder" who is breeding more for money lah, he advices them to feed apples and dogfood. Also the glider food sold there are weird.... no one oversea uses it too and the brand is unknown. So I rarely trust their knowledge on pets.

wah..kalau i come at the gathering..im oso malay boy right hun

HAhaah.... yah loh. Also Malay mah heheheh.

sugar glider thread becoming racist! hahaha...

no laa..
i ask bcoz worried if no malay, i cant speak english or chinese..
huhu..
so if some 1 of u is malay the better la..
if i go to the gathering no be blur2 la...

i guess everyone here knows malay.... hahaha

dont worry i cannot speak chinese also
but since i look a bit chinese, some ppl will start talking in canto/mandarin to me if they dont know me
where's KP she's not been here lately. missed her super long quoting reply

me also know but worried je la..

if go to the gathering than become a alien..
only malay..
huhu

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Added on March 30, 2008, 11:11 pmme to..
ppl dont know me always thought me chinese or korean..

This post has been edited by thejamz: Mar 30 2008, 11:11 PM

some people talking weird language to me.. maybe i look like japanese! haha..