In Reply to: Please Don't posted by Mike on November 26, 1999 at 20:09:30:

: Cat food is very high in fat and made for cats which are not native to Glider country. So bottom line is this cat food is not made for gliders! it's made for cats give your gliders 75% fruit and a spoonfull of the Leadbeaters recipes that zoo's use for their glider diet, Bourbon has a good Leadbeaters recipe.

ACtually the preferred mix these days is 50% fruit/veggies and 50% protien. This is if you are feeding a straight fresh diet. IF you are using LeadBeatter's or Brisky's or any other total diet you do not need to feed fresh. But if you feed a "total diet" and want to feed fresh as well you MUST feed both fresh fruits/veggies and fresh protien(meat/eggs/tofu/etc) to ensure a balanced diet. If you leave part of the fresh diet out there is no guarentee that the glider will eat a balanced diet.

Gliders bodies aren't built to digest fat so it builds up and causes many problems and blindness in joeys.
: please e-mail if you need the leadbeaters recipe
: God Bless
: The Schafers

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: : Hey ,how many times a week should you feed the cat food to you Sugar GLider???????????

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