This has been a very sad few days for me and once all of you read what I have discovered, I am sure you will be sad and angry too.

First and foremost, I would like to thank Reanne for giving me the idea to do this as she mentioned in the hamster thread about consulting a nutritionist.

A few weeks ago, there was quite a lot of commotion here with regards to the calcium intake within the GliderSlurp. If anyone recalls, crazymouse did say that you can feed as much slurp as you want. I did not want to say much about this then as I was scolded by her when I mentioned that a glider cannot take too much calcium.

So, I began to suspect that there was no added calcium in the slurp. I bought a container and decided to send the slurp to the lab to test for calcium levels. When I opened the slurp, I also noticed a few black dots in there. My first thought was added supplements but I could not think of any supplements that looked like that. So, I began to suspect that the maker did not de-seed the apples and those black dots were apple seeds.

As most of you know, apple seeds contain cyanide and ingestion of cyanide can be fatal to humans if administered in large doses. (Please google to find out more about cyanide poisoning.)

I then sent the slurp to lab for testing and the results have just come out, which I have attached below. The flavour I sent was Orange Carotene. Carrots have an almost 1 to 1 ratio. Orange has a 2 to 1 ratio. If the report says almost 1:1, means the calcium shown on the report comes from the fruits. Even yogurt has calcium in it, so technically, if there is yogurt in the slurp as claimed, there should be higher ratios of calcium even without the Rep-Cal. This also brings us to why the phosphorus levels are so high. If it is from fruits alone, the phosphorus levels should not be that high.

I have spoken to some experts and let me briefly tell you what the report means. There is NO added calcium supplement and perhaps NO yogurt in the GliderSlurp as well. The calcium is not even enough to cover the phosphorus in the slurp let alone all the phosphorus your glider is ingesting from meal worms!!

When a glider has insufficient calcium intake, it has no choice but to draw calcium from its own bones. I am sure you know what this means.

The cyanide testing was also sent to the lab and as the report below shows, there are rather substantial amounts of cyanide in the slurp. Cyanide attacks the nervous system and can kill. I have been informed that once cyanide had been ingested for more than 2 hours, it CANNOT be reversed. This means the poison remains in there forever. THIS MEANS OUR GLIDERS ARE BEING POISONED SLOWLY.

If you Google about cyanide poisoning, you will find that sometimes the effect does not come immediately. It may come much later which means that the glider will have much shorter lives and the glider will suffer when the nervous system is attacked!

My Mika was on GliderSlurp previously and it really saddens me to know that she may have toxic in her body which cannot be removed. My friend has helped me to check with Hands and Paws on what can be done and they too have basically said that not much can be done 

All of you may or may not believe all this but it doesn't matter. I just want to tell all the real glider lovers to be careful. For those that do not believe this report, I plead with you to send any EXISTING slurp in your freezers at home to the labs.

Click the spoiler below to see proof!
(Lab report and sample of slurp)

oh wow...if only people would dedicate that much attention to raising their kids....

This sound quite serious matter here. Mean alot of suggies got affected like melamine-infection in China?

Wow you even resort to sending it for chemical analysis.So what happened to your glider now?Is it okay.

oh wow...if only people would dedicate that much attention to raising their kids....

Please let me know if my statement if unfair.

Well, of corse hazzy has his right to doubt and ask for responds from Hun since this is her product and that's the analysis he claims as the result the SLURP sent to the lab.

But this is only one of the slurp, the item is sent without consulting the lab or hun first, and the statements are from hazzy, not the lab.

At the same time, it is understandable that for those that are concern, especially Sugar Glider owners, are eagerly waiting for responds.

But hazzy, you mentioned that you sent smoothie for analysis as well and you have the report, do you mind to share? It would be more convincing to me if you do share with the report of the one you currently feeding and recommending, if your intention is to share and care, not any other motives.

Smoothie or Slurp doesn't matters, the good thing is the consumer (Hazzy) suspected something and took it for further testing, and the results shown that the sample contained cynaide and Ca:P ratio is not sufficient for healthly SG growth... Even if it is contaminated in anyway, is very unlikely that the Ca:P ratio is in a not healthy level if she has added Rep-Cal... There are so so so many possibilities.. No point for us to assume things. Let's wait for the seller to make her statement.

Now is the festive season. Maybe she had too sent her slurps for testing. And labs doen't work on festive season.. Sharil_routh, hazzy and bonai, know you all are very concerned about your glider's health. But maybe we should give her a bit more time to get the results and such.

Of cause there are possibility that she will 'upgrade' the slurp. But like bonai says, karma exist..

But what's done cannot be undone... Is just like all inventions, nothing 100% safe... And if indeed was the slurp, then she'll have room to improve her products... Besides, now Raya ma. Cool down and enjoy the holidays lo.. And forgive and forget...

Now I know that I myself don't own a glider. But I do own other pets, and I know how it felt to see a pet under my care injure, hurt and die... Yesterday was one of it, and bonai have given me some info on what could possibly be the cause, and I thank him alot... Later got to bring him over to Doc Jenny..