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Subject: Huge Fear
Posted by Betsycc on July 11, 1998 at 10:58:12:

I'd like to share something with all new or future glider owners -
The reason that it often sounds like people are getting up on soap boxes
and preaching about doing research BEFORE getting a glider is because
anyone who owns a glider and loves it with all their heart is terrified
AND I MEAN TERRIFIED that sugar gliders are going to begin showing
up in dog pounds. It makes me shiver to think of it. I honestly live with a
strange sort of terror about it. I cannot adopt all the discarded gliders
that I may come across and my heart will break because of it. Can you
picture a glider in a cat cage at a pound with fluorescent lights &
continual barking?
So we tried and true glider owners are fanatical when it comes to people
getting a pet simply because "it's sooooo cute".
I had no idea when I got my first glider how deeply it would affect me. I
think about them constantly. I cannot go into a grocery store without
looking for new foods to try on them. I cannot go into a hardware store
without looking for stuff to enhance their cages. I cannot go into a pet
store without looking at all the cat toys, ferret toys, hamster toys, bird
toys . . .
So, in closing i would like to apologize for those who have taken this
personally. I don't think anyone on this board EVER wants to personally
insult or hurt anyone. We just get insane at the thought of abandoned
gliders being dumped at pounds or even worse - turned loose outside.

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• Re: LOOK AT PLEASE Danny 16:21:25 12/15/98 (0)
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