In Reply to: I am so glad that you wrote this posted by Id on January 16, 19100 at 23:35:50:

: I was about to cry after reading what people wrote about it being cruel to own just one glider. I baught just one because I thought it would be easier to bond with one rather than two. I do have a lot of time to spend with Flea and as soon as he stops fussing all of the time I will be able to take him to work with me too. My office is full of cubicles and the other day Flea (who I had at work with me) woke up and started screaching which did not make the people around me very happy. It was my mistake tho because he was asleep when I walked to work and when he woke up he was hearing all sorts of strange noises which probably scared him. Anyway, back to the purpose of this post....Flea has all sorts of company between me, my boyfriend and my two cats, which Flea has taken a liking to. I was just glad to read Bourbon's post because it made me feel like I was doing ok and not being too terribly selfish for wanting Flea to myself. Maybe I am just a little selfish..hee hee
: Wendi

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: : Blantantly disregarding what they do in the wild?, these gliders that most have now are captive bred, yes they are social animals, but as kim said, there are too many downsides to owning 2 right off the bat, I believe too many people out there do buy 2 for the same reason kim stated, and thats because people tell them they HAVE to, or that "it's the best thing for their glider" or that "the glider wouldn't be happy until it had another of it's species." IN MY OPINION, this is a downright fallacy, some people are told that their gliders will improve in personalities. I have gliders, and I have a girl, that she was my first, after researching 6 months I decided to look, she chose us, for another 6 months we had her, and we didn't get a male for any of the reasons above, it was for personal reasons. Did she change because of him? NO, is she "HAPPIER", she is happy with me, she is fine with him, I watch them play, one goes one way, the other goes another, they have their own personalities, and their own likes and disslikes. But is SHE any better off with him? Not necessarily, we take trips often, I take her with me, when we get home it is smokey who is glad to see Baybe, she could care less. I do spend a lot of time with her, You can not generalize the personalities of all gliders, I know of someone here, and she may speak up, that told me, if she knew then what she knew now, she wouldn't have gotten a second glider for her male. She was bonded to him seriously.. Others here will tell you that their lone gliders can't be put with another. I have a friend who has bukoo cages because her gliders like being alpha gliders. I know of one that was bonded to it's owner, till she rescued more, he was NOT happy about that, turned very mean, he loved being "the only one, the "BOSS"", Too many people get 2 right off the bat, and have little to no idea, what to do with them, some and I must take my hat off to those, have to work harder, to learn and still keep them happy. TOO many others as Kim, had said, are abandoned.. this we see more often than not. I do have a page set up for the buying/selling of gliders, I did that in order to keep them separate. It gets frustrating , when it is so hard NOT to ask, WHY do you want to sell a glider, you have had for a year. When many times the excuses are really dumb, things that could have been avoided with a little research. I have to agree with kim on this one, and we don't agree often..LOL

I have a female glider. she is about a year and a half old, I got her when she was first weened. I took her home and put her in her new home, I also have a female cat that is about six months older, they both have created such a bond with each other that if i ever got rid of either one the other would die of a broken heart. I can take my sugar baby out of her cage hold her in my hand and the cat will give her kisses, and thesugar baby will sniff the cat and rub noses. once adara the cat was sitting by kyla's cage and kyla reached out and grabbed a tuft of adara's fur and then my cat leaned closer and kyla started to nibble on adara's ear, and adara just let her . the two of them spend all day together while i am at work, so who knows what all they do, some day i will set up a video camera to find out and i will let you all know. kyla barks in the middle of the night to get my cat to go play with her. being a sound sleeper, i usually have to wake up my cat so she will go play with kyla. so i could go on all day telling you about them but i dont have enough time. oh i must tell you about the two occasions when the sugar glider escaped and the cat didnt even do a thing. she went so far as to let kyla eat three buttons off of my remote control, and chew up the eraser i use to draw with. and another time i went camping for the weekend and my kyla was out for two days and when i got back she was up in the curtains and all was well. so too make a long story short you who say that they need same species companions are speaking without knowledge of what others have experienced. enjoy and be safe......

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