In Reply to: fighting or playing posted by star on January 07, 19100 at 22:34:46:

: I have two six month old male sugargliders. They are both nuetered. We got them when they were three months old. They make a chirping noise and wrestle and swat and bite at eachother. We leave them out of their cage all night and hear this sound throughout the night. We have looked at them and do not see any apparent bite or scratch marks. In the morning we almost always find the two snuggled up together. They also share a pouch, even if we put a second one in the cage, and they will eat together. The wrestleing looks really vicious, but other than that they seem like best buddies. Does anybody elses gliders behave this way? Do you think they are in danger of hurting eachother? Also, our one, Yoda, is real mild and lets us hold him and pet him and is real loving. Our other one ,gizmo, is more agressive. He is tame and playful, but he bites alot. We do not even have to be around him and he will walk up to us and bite us. He doesn't break skin. Any ideas on why he does this and how to break this bad habbit. Thank You for your help!

don't know about the wrestling, it seems like they get long though or one would be dead!!! Mine come up to me and bite me also and don't break the skin, I think most of the time it's when i'm trying to stop what they're doing and they don't want too. sometimes they get annoyed with me and do break the skin, but i love them any way!!! what bothers me though is you leave them out of their cage all night! you probably shouldn't do that, what if they bumped something that lands on them an squishes them or get out some mouse hole or pipe or exit you don't know about, or someone leaves toilet seat up and they drown, or goes outside and they follow!!! it's like leaving small inquisitive toddlers unsupervised. too many things could happen, it's best to take them out to play for a couple of hours and return them to safely to their cage.

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